Digital Director

The Digital Director is an individual contributor role responsible for prospecting and closing sales for GumGum’s market-leading advertising platform. Reporting to the Senior Digital Director, this role is responsible for leading and developing key relationships and strategy across key media agencies and advertisers in the Netherlands. We expect the successful candidate to drive value for our clients through GumGum products and have extensive contacts across the industry.

The Digital Director is a self-motivated individual who can work with internal teams and is committed to achieving and exceeding sales goals while growing GumGum’s products in their allocated region. We are looking for candidates with 5+ years of experience in Digital Sales or Media Agency side.

What You'll Achieve

• Revenue-Driven Action: Responsible for a significant media agency patch.
• Sales Prospecting and Hunting: This individual is expected to increase output from existing clients through developing relationships whilst also identifying new prospects. Actively engaging these opportunities and driving new revenue.
• High-Volume Sales Activity: Expectation to generate a high volume of sales-related activity including presentations, RFPs, and innovative sales solutions.
• Upsell Current Clients: Upsell current clients in current and new products. Provide deep market insights into contextual and rich media, showcasing the value of this mix to our clients and gaining test opportunities with additional products including rich media, contextual data, or video.
• Relationship Development - Cultivate relationships with brands, agency contacts, and clients to gain deep insight into their business and ultimately provide GumGum solutions for their marketing and advertising goals.
• Internal Collaboration - Work with designated Account Manager and other internal teams to ensure sold proposals are successfully implemented and aligned with client expectations in a timely manner.

Skills You'll Bring

• 5 years of solid selling experience in digital advertising sales (required sales in our specific industry whether publisher or tech sales)
• Must have strong selling experience and a track record of hitting or exceeding sales targets
• Experience in both Managed Service and Programmatic solutions
• Strong reputation across the industry and an amazing list of contacts
• Strong fluency in Dutch speaking and writing
• Strong fluency in English speaking and writing

What We Offer

• Learn about our benefits & perks package at gumgum.com/benefits. If you'd like additional information, your recruiter can share more specifics during the hiring process!