Sales Director
Location New York, USA
department Sales
Type Full TIMe, $140K–$250K annually + Commission structure
Minimum Experience Senior Level
What is Footballco?Footballco is the world’s biggest dedicated football content and media business. Reaching more than 400m football fans across the world each month, and with a growing roster of brands including Goal, Voetbalzone, and Spox, no one else has our reach or depth of understanding within the game. With over 300 employees globally, we’re a young company with some established brands and serious investment behind us. Our future starts now…
What’s the role about?Footballco is looking for a Sales Director to head and build out our US Region. You will be expected to drive the commercial agenda with agencies and brands in the US. You should have a natural ability to ensure strong coverage of the market and shape compelling propositions to prospective clients. You will use your market knowledge to feed into the positioning of our brands within North America whilst working also closely with our content teams to align commercial opportunities with editorial output. You will grow the sales team in the region and have the opportunity to shape the strategy.
This position is based in New York. We offer competitive compensation and a bonus scheme.
What You'll be doing?Promote Footballco’s media, content and strategy propositions to relevant
media agency contacts with regular calls, meetings and proactive work
Secure briefs and work with our central Strategy Team to produce first class
proposals and win business
Manage campaigns, upsell where possible and secure repeat business
Identify opportunities and develop media packages e.g. upcoming sports events, creative executions
Work in collaboration with the VP Global Partnerships to target relevant US-based brand leads and ensure we are communicating with all key decision makers at agency and client alike
What you have?Digital media agency sales experience
Multiple contacts across the US media agency landscape
A proven record in driving revenue from new spenders and converting them to repeat spenders
Ideally: Experience in pitching both standard media, as well as branded content partnerships
Led a sales team previously
Preferably: Work within the football space, or sports industry at-large, with a working knowledge of the vast US media landscape
Footballco is a global organisation and as such we are fortunate to have employees across a diverse range of backgrounds. We aim to build an environment that is inclusive to all and where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self.
Footballco is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.