Senior Advertising Sales Manager, France (Paris based)

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!  

The France Enterprise Advertiser team is looking for an eager, results-driven Sales Manager to pursue, negotiate and close deals, bringing in high-profile clients and expanding our footprint in one of the region's most exciting and fast-moving markets. We're looking for a hunter. Someone who doesn't wait for opportunities to land in their lap, who picks up the phone, gets in the room, and closes. If your instinct is to chase, pitch and win, and you have the track record to prove it, this role is for you.

The successful candidate will identify, engage and cement large brand and performance partnerships, and work with major media agency networks across the region. Displaying a consultative style, you must be an exceptional communicator, comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders across clients and Taboola teams, but make no mistake: this is a sales role, and results are what count.

To thrive in this role, you'll need:

• Extensive experience in sales in the digital space 
• Good knowledge of the French digital advertising space.
• Experience selling to top 100 French Brands and/or big 6 agencies
• Native French speaker
• Experience in structuring and negotiating deals within the digital media space
• A true passion for online content, and a strong sales drive
• Demonstrated experience meeting and exceeding sales targets.
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills
• Strong analytical skills to collect business intelligence by conversing with clients and monitoring/identifying trends in data and in generated reports
• Excellent technological skills and ability to quickly learn what is needed to support the campaigns successful implementation and optimisation
• Entrepreneurial with the will and ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment.

How you’ll make an impact:

In this role you’ll bring value by:

• Gain an understanding of digital technology and revenue ecosystem and be able to explain product benefits within this context
• Sell multiple products to clients by finding the right stakeholders for each product, without digressing from a coherent product message and overall strategy
• Manage a robust pipeline and accurately forecast new business closure rate and revenue booked
• Work closely with the Sales Director to consistently achieve and exceed revenue goals.
• Interact with the Account Management team to effectively manage client expectations and ensure successful campaign management
• Convey field intelligence to product management teams in regard to development features
• Independently build a large pipeline of leads, pursue them and close deals.
• Manage presentations, build relationships and negotiate contracts

Why Taboola?

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

• Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.
• Well-being: With an office culture that’s international, social and supportive, Taboola offers very generous benefits including 20 days holiday, excellent health insurance, some flexible working, free breakfast and lunch every day, stock options and Perkbox to name just a few.
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest and Expedia.

Ready to realize your potential?

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale.

Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.

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