Digital Account Director, NBCUniversal Local
About The Position
The Local Digital Account Director/Subject Matter Expert will be responsible for enabling digital revenue growth across NBCUniversal digital platforms through the development and sale of advertising solutions to clients. The Account Director will develop a solid understanding of NBCUniversal ad products across Peacock, NBCU Network and Cable Assets, Local Owned Station Sites and Sports which includes Regional Sports Nets, NFL, NBA, Olympics, World Cup. Account Director will have exemplary consultative selling skills to be able to best develop solutions to meet client needs and close deals – which they will deploy by partnering with assigned local markets to find new business, close revenue, build relationships that result in high client return rates, and ensure digital product understanding across clients and internal teams’.
Requirements
- 7+ years extensive Digital Sales/Sales management experience
- Established network of contacts and relationships within the ad sales business community
- Interested candidates must submit a resume/CV through nbcunicareers.com to be considered
- Must be willing to work in Houston, TX
- Willingness to travel and work overtime
- Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
Nice To Haves
- Excellent client relations skills
- Demonstrates strong executive-level presentation, leadership, coaching and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines
- Demonstrates a proactive approach and takes initiative to be innovative
- Experience in successfully communicating at all levels both verbally and in writing
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and be detail-oriented
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- Spanish Fluency is a plus
Responsibilities
- Digital Sales Leadership
- Work hand-in-hand with assigned local market (NBC/Telemundo) sales leadership and AEs to drive revenue; including but not limited to joining key client meetings, leadership meetings, and driving digital conversations with AE’s
- Evaluate the performance of advertising sales programs against desired outcomes
- Support AE’s and BD team on programmatic opportunities
- Understand and champion all aspect of digital products and sales (inc research/attribution)
- Communication
- Internally serve as subject matter expert and develop tools and messaging to all internal parties
- Communicate and collaborate internally with other departments including Strategy, Pricing & Planning, Marketing, Research, Marketing and Client Solutions
- Additional Responsibilities
- Provide input on digital sales training curriculum for division
- Provide feedback on sales go-to-market materials
- Work with SVP on ad-hoc projects/analysis
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
