Senior Director, Brand Partnerships, Food & Lifestyle
About Your Role:
Dotdash is hiring a Director of Brand Partnerships with a strong background and focus on Food and Lifestyle categories within the advertising sales space. In this role, you would be responsible for using your category knowledge and expertise to forge new partnerships and grow existing business.
About Your Contributions:
- Represent our food brands, The Spruce Eats, Simply Recipes and Serious Eats, along with our Lifestyle brands in the advertising marketplace with digital industry expertise, professionalism and a point of view
- Stay educated and keyed into your clients’ business challenges and work to bring them top of the line advertising solutions to solve their business challenges
- Develop and grow strong relationships with client and agency partners across multiple levels of both organizations
- Lead strong relationships where you have intelligence about your clients’ goals and objectives ‘before the RFP’, stay a step ahead
- Close sales on a variety of solutions to clients including custom content, editorial sponsorships, mobile executions, programmatic, and demonstrate a curiosity for new and evolving products
- Forecast, track and report revenue contribution and performance with our internal tools
- Champion the strategic mission of the sales team by raising ideas, questions and concerns as we work to continually elevate our work in the marketplace
- Meet and exceed quarterly and annual revenue goals
About You:
- Digital media sales experience,with a demonstrated track record of success in breaking accounts without no prior history of spending
- Relationships within food, retail, beverage/spirits strongly preferred
- Working collaboratively with sales support staff internally is in your DNA
- You have a positive attitude, enthusiasm, high energy, and a passion for excellence
- Results-driven orientation, superior client management skills, excellent follow-up and follow-through
- Independent self-starter who comes equipped with strong contacts at key digital agencies and clients and can get up and running quickly
- High degree of integrity and business ethics
- Willing to travel as needed
- College degree required
About Us:
Dotdash's vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. Dotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. Dotdash brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger.
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