Director, Business Dev.

Department: Strategic Business Development
Location: London, Hybrid
Updated on: June 02, 2023

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About Us

MediaMath is the leading technology pioneer on a mission to make advertising better. We deliver outstanding results through powerful ad tech, partnership and a curiosity for what’s next. We help more than 3,500 advertisers solve complex marketing problems so they can deepen their customer relationships across screens and around the world. 

Key Responsibilities 

MediaMath seeks a Business Development Director with exceptional agency and client direct relationships in EMEA, a proven history of closing complex, high-value deals in a competitive, dynamic, and evolving marketing space. As a Business Development Director at MediaMath, you will be responsible for identifying, and closing a list of key prospects that align with our ideal customer profile and working with pre-sales and marketing on new business strategy primarily in EMEA. 

 You will: 

  • Plan, direct, and coordinate sales activities across MediaMath and self-sourced prospects that align to our ideal customer profile 
  • Develop robust sales opportunities from the above activity that result in new business wins to exceed target 
  • Develop initial sales plan & solution design based on excellent business and functional diagnosis during the sales cycle that results in successful client on-boarding, and handover to the account teams 
  • Identification of upper third decision makers, their buying mode and priorities 
  • Work cross-functionally, communicating with and activating key business units within MediaMath to ensure a successful sales process 
  • Utilise sales software (e.g., Salesforce) to track pipeline, revenue forecasts, as a repository for client needs, and to for resource and product requests 

 You are: 

  • Able to communicate effectively with senior executives at Fortune 500 brands 
  • Personable, charismatic, and positive 
  • Ability to present and express yourself in a clear, confident manner 

 You have: 

  • 5+ years of Enterprise B2B strategic sales experience targeting Economic Buyers at large, direct brands and Agencies 
  • A history of hitting and exceeding revenue goals by adhering to a Customer-Focused Sales Methodology 
  • Excellent communication skills; specifically, strong listening, negotiation, and presentation 
  • Proven ability to establish meaningful relationships with decision makers with a track record of retaining key clients 
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with Solutions Engineers on key accounts to drive deals and influence 
  • Solution oriented and creative thinking skills to evaluate problems and to drive win-win outcomes 
  • Effective project management skills – ability to prioritise and meet deadlines in a methodical fashion 

 

Why We Work at MediaMath 

We are restless innovators, smart, passionate and kind. At the heart of our culture are three values that provide a framework for how we approach our work and the world: Win Together, Obsess Over Growth, and Do Good, Better. These values inform how we energize one another and engage with our clients. They get us amped to come to work. 

Founded in 2007 as a pioneer in "programmatic" advertising, MediaMath is recognized as a Leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Ad Tech and has won Best Account Support by a Technology Company for two years in a row in the AdExchanger Awards. 

MediaMath is committed to equal employment opportunity. It is a fundamental principle at MediaMath not to discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: age, race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital status, gender identity/transgender status, pregnancy, childbirth or related  medical condition, and other protected characteristic as established by law.