Sales Manager - Sydney

Blis is looking for a driven and energetic salesperson to join our growing team. Based in Sydney and reporting to the Regional Director - ANZ, the ideal candidate will have at least 3 years’ experience within the Sydney market, a strong contact list and hold existing relationships with the major agency groups and clients. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate an in depth understanding of the advertising market and the role of digital and OMNI channel solutions that include pDOOH, CTV, and Digital Audio.

The most important aspects of this role is to be the face of Blis and the expert of our Audience Explorer technology to our clients, work closely with the nominated agencies to source significant levels of new business, create campaign winning solutions, develop strong client relationships, manage strong forward pipeline and deliver the highly professional service for which Blis is renowned.

Key responsibilities

• Leverage existing and new relationships to build your own pipeline of opportunity across the Blis product set

• Present Blis’ OMNI audience and OMNI measurement solutions to media agencies

• Acquiring and converting agency media briefs and managing pipeline for monthly and quarterly targets

• Target media agencies and their clients including agency planners, strategists, and programmatic teams 

• Convert pipeline and acquire new customers and accounts to achieve business targets

• Create and lead sales presentations for your agencies and clients and for the team

• Become an expert on Blis USP’s and best practices on the Blis platform, and offer insights to clients on how to improve their strategies and campaigns

• Develop and implement quarterly business plans with weekly forecasting/pipeline management

• Create market leading solutions and presentations for your clients

• Build and maintain strong relationships with agencies through events and entertainment

• Have an active role and input in team strategy and company sales meetings and initiatives.

Skills and Experience

• Strong background in digital media sales and accountment management - 3+yrs

• Expert knowledge of digital media market, advertising, programmatic media and product & data offerings

• Experience in working across an OMNI channel offering that is inclusive of pDOOH, CTV, Digital Audio and Digital

• Knowledge of the broader media market and the role of location / mobile advertising within brands

•Demonstrate an understanding of the needs and requirements of digital media strategists, planners and buyers

• Currently leveraging digital budgets from media agencies

• Existing relationships within the Sydney media agency groups

• The confidence to present to your audience, small & large

• A proven ability to close deals and achieve targets.

• Commitment to being a team player in a dynamic environment

About us

Blis is the geo-powered advertising tech stack. We’ve built a radically different omnichannel advertising solution structured on geography, not identity. Audience Explorer is our powerful audience planning platform delivering actionable intelligence & insight to advertisers.

With Blis, advertisers can plan unified audiences with data from premium partners, connected by geo. Buy audiences using smart cookieless technology that can double performance and halve costs. Measure the audience, not just the channel, with patent-pending omnichannel measurement technology.

Established in the UK in 2004, Blis now operates in more than 40 offices across five continents. Working with the world’s largest and most customer-driven companies across all verticals including Unilever, Samsung, McDonald's, HSBC, Mercedes Benz and Peugeot, as well as every major media agency, we deliver ads to 1/5th of the world’s population.

At Blis our vision is to be the undisputed leader in location-powered advertising and analytics. We believe that values create behaviours and behaviours create a culture. Our company values are a huge part of our DNA. We are fully committed to creating a powerful culture of inclusivity and belonging that embraces diversity, encourages people to bring their authentic selves to work, educates everyone at Blis about matters of equality and engages with the wider industry community to drive social change.

As an equal opportunity employer, we treat all our employees and job applicants fairly and equally. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination and take all reasonable steps to create a work environment in which all employees are treated with respect and dignity. We don't condone or tolerate any form of harassment, by employees or by others who do business with us.

Our values

Brave
We're leaders not followers
An innovation and growth mindset helps us solve everyday challenges and achieve breakthroughs. Our passion drives
us to innovate. We don’t see barriers, just possibilities.
We take ownership and hold ourselves accountable for outcomes, good and bad – and we don’t pass the buck.

Love our clients
We're client obsessed
We do what we say and build trusted relationships with our partners for the long term. We act with integrity. We put our clients at the centre of our business. We obsess over the best insights, ideas and solutions to deliver WOW and work with honesty and accountability to get it done.

Inclusive
We're one team
We are empathetic and embrace diversity. Everyone has
a voice and can bring their authentic self to work. We care
about and support each other – with humility and good
humour. Mutual respect and wellbeing are key. We strive
to eliminate bias and be open and transparent.

Solutions driven

We're action oriented
Speed matters in business, so we're solution-driven and
action-oriented. We value simplification and calculated risk taking. We are lean, agile and resourceful self-starters.
We collaborate and break silos, working thoughtfully and
with urgency to solve problems, while learning from mistakes
and celebrating wins.