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Sales Associate - Sports Media Rights

  • Location: Richmond upon Thames
  • Salary: Up to £27350 per annum + Commission
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted 2 months ago

  • Sector: sales
  • Type: hybrid
  • Contact: Andrea Pell
  • Contact Email: andrea.pell@handle.co.uk
  • Expiry Date: 04 April 2025
  • Job Ref: BBBH111358

Handle Recruitment are currently supporting a sporting rights business to build out their Sales team to support with their further growth.

If you have a proven track record of working in a successful B2B sales role ideally in media rights /advertising then please get in touch!

Job Description

  • Rapidly understand the virtual media sports rights market and clients offering to be able to articulate available virtual inventory to the clients
  • Work closely with the virtual media Sales team to identify new brands in the market to attract investment for your assigned European football rights
  • Support the Head of Media & Sales in targeted sales strategy planning sessions
  • Develop client portfolio in regional territories and become a trusted contact for ongoing sports advertisement opportunities
  • Responsible for completing the sale of owned virtual media rights to achieve pre-agreed sales targets for each football season.
  • Where required, undertake necessary sports industry and brand research - providing business research & insights to support the media & partnerships sales teams
  • Other ad-hoc project and client and brand analysis tasks as and when required

Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.