Media Sales Recruitment
We specialise in recruiting the finest candidates for the media sales industry, meeting our clients' needs with the best talent available.
The media sales sector specialises in selling advertising space and solutions to businesses across a number of different formats like online, TV, radio or Out of Home advertising. The majority of these organisations are headquartered in London but have regional offices in Manchester to service the North where they will have smaller, more sales focussed teams. There is significant spend around seasonal and campaign activity which media sales companies must be prepared for to hit targets and compete for budgets. Roles within this sector involve selling media and advertising space with the majority of the role being focussed on identifying new clients, pitching to them and creating presentations to offer solutions for their briefs. They will then maintain and grow relationships with clients to increase advertising spend within the area or client portfolio they are responsible for whilst justifying the spend through campaign metrics and analysis.
You’ll find positions like Media Sales Account Managers, Executives, Managers or Directors who all sell and manage clients across both advertising agencies and client direct. Recruitment agencies will identify candidates with outstanding client management skills, a strong commercial ability and be able to solve problems whilst producing presentations and plans to execute briefs. This will mean examining skillsets of junior candidates for career development in a role or having a quality network of experienced candidates to be able to present to clients for their vacancies. There are only a limited amount of recruitment agencies who specialise in this sector, but they will be well connected and have the ability to produce fast and quality shortlists because of their market involvement.
Being located in Manchester since 2012, we operate in one of the largest regional hubs for media sales professions who have worked alongside advertising agencies and large regional clients for decades. We know the candidates who have the strongest client relationships, that have worked on the biggest pitches and generated the biggest revenues for their clients. By understanding their suitability to your sales product, we can identify synergies that will ensure a great return from one of our recruited candidates. Our team have worked in the media industry and in particular media sales so we grasp exactly what our clients require. We’re part of the community and submerge ourself within it, attending events and supporting it where needed.
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Media sales recruitment covers positions like Account Manager, Executive, Manager and Director, all focused on selling advertising space and solutions across formats such as online, TV, radio and Out of Home. The role typically combines new business pitching with managing and growing existing client relationships.
There are only a limited number of recruitment agencies that specialise in media sales, but because of their market involvement, they tend to be well connected and able to produce fast, quality shortlists - something that matters given how commercially driven media sales roles are.
Strong client management, commercial ability, and problem-solving stand out, alongside the ability to build presentations and plans that deliver on a client's brief. A media sales recruiter will also assess junior candidates for career development potential, not just their current skillset.
Media sales businesses are typically headquartered in London with smaller, sales-focused regional offices - Manchester is one of the largest such hubs. A recruiter embedded in that regional market has closer visibility of the candidates behind the biggest client pitches and revenues.
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