Advertising Account Executive

We are currently looking for an Account Executive to join the Digital Media Solution Team at Kijiji. We are a team who is striving for new opportunities, new ideas, and ultimately loves to win together and individually. You will be responsible for selling and up-selling our digital media solutions to new and existing clients and working with them to explore how our range of product offerings can grow their business.

What you’ll do: 

• Provide comprehensive advertising solutions to prospective clients.

• Build a book of business, ensuring the management and fulfilment of strategic goals, and developing associated agreements.

• Proactively contact new and existing clients and educate, propose and secure buy-in on Kijiji product solution

• Identify, propose and sell programs to targeted clients (direct and/or media agencies) within the target markets set out by Kijiji

• Be an influencer in the digital space and experience educating new advertisers on the benefits of transitioning from traditional media to digital marketing strategies

• Develop an understanding of client’s business, products, services, customer profile, marketing and business objectives, competitors and sales to better proposed strategies and tactics that will achieve client’s KPIs

• Understand all new products and how to properly utilise them

• Manage your business pipeline and develop a strategy for long-term sustained success

• Committed to exceeding quota attainment assigned.

Who you are:

• 5+ years of digital media sales experience, including experience with an Adtech and/or programmatic company

• Strong understanding of the Digital & Mobile marketing industry

• Creative, problem solver with ability and experience in understanding needs of customers and delivering innovative solutions

• Outstanding written, communication and selling skills

• Strong commitment to sales and customer service with good interpersonal skills, initiative and follow through

• Able to handle multiple priorities

• Competitive compensation package
• Opportunity to shape the way we work. Your feedback and opinions are valued at all levels of the organisation
• Benefits including stock purchase plan and annual bonus plans
• Flexibility to work when and how you want - flexible hours, autonomy to set your own agenda, choice of phone and computer
• Smart Working Policy - work remotely some of the time, balanced with time in the office together with your team - between 5 and 45 days per quarter in the office depending on each team.
• 'Work from anywhere' weeks - up to four weeks working from anywhere, as long as you have an internet connection!
• Career development, including language classes and Adevinta Academies: specialised content built by our experts on Machine Learning, Agile, Leadership and more

We're Adevinta, a global leader in digital marketplaces. Our household name brands, including Marktplaats in the Netherlands, mobile.de in Germany and leboncoin in France, reach hundreds of millions of people every month.

We're all about matchmaking, and our sites help people find whatever they're looking for in their local communities – whether it's a car, an apartment, a sofa or a new job. Every connection made or item found makes a difference by creating a world where people share more and waste less.

Our brands are supported by global Tech Hubs in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin. Their goal is to develop common global products and innovation platforms which all of our brands can use. This means using cutting edge technology to create highly scalable, customisable and secure products and components that free up development time and leverage our access to global data.

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

If you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role but are interested, please consider applying anyway. Research suggests that women and individuals from underrepresented groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. We strongly encourage people from historically excluded groups to apply and look forward to speaking with you.