Head - Agency and Brand Sales, South Africa
InMobi Advertising is a global technology leader helping marketers win the moments that matter. Our advertising platform reaches over 2 billion people across 150+ countries and turns real-time context into business outcomes, delivering results grounded in privacy-first principles. Trusted by 30,000+ brands and leading publishers, InMobi is where intelligence, creativity, and accountability converge. By combining lock screens, apps, TVs, and the open web with AI and machine learning, we deliver receptive attention, precise personalization, and measurable impact.
Through Glance AI, we are shaping AI Commerce, reimagining the future of e-commerce with inspiration-led discovery and shopping. Designed to seamlessly integrate into everyday consumer technology, Glance AI transforms every screen into a gateway for instant, personal, and joyful discovery. Spanning diverse categories such as fashion, beauty, travel, accessories, home décor, pets, and beyond, Glance AI delivers deeply personalized shopping experiences. With rich first-party data and unparalleled consumer access, it harnesses InMobi’s global scale, insights, and targeting capabilities to create high impact, performance driven shopping journeys for brands worldwide.
Recognized as a Great Place to Work, and by MIT Technology Review, Fast Company’s Top 10 Innovators, and more, InMobi is a workplace where bold ideas create global impact. Backed by investors including SoftBank, Kleiner Perkins, and Sherpalo Ventures, InMobi has offices across San Mateo, New York, London, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Jakarta, Bengaluru and beyond.
At InMobi Advertising, you’ll have the opportunity to shape how billions of users connect with content, commerce, and brands worldwide. To learn more, visit www.inmobi.com
Who are we and What do we do?
InMobi Group’s mission is to power intelligent, mobile-first experiences for enterprises and consumers. Its businesses across advertising, marketing, data and content platforms are shaping consumer experience in a world of connected devices. InMobi Group has been recognized on both the 2018 and 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list and as one of Fast Company’s 2018 World’s Most Innovative Companies.
What’s the InMobi family like?
Consistently featured among the “Great Places to Work” in India since 2017, our culture is our true north, enabling us to think big, solve complex challenges and grow with new opportunities. InMobians are passionate and driven, creative and fun-loving, take ownership and are results-focused. We invite you to free yourself, dream big and chase your passion.
What do we promise?
We offer an opportunity to have an immediate impact on the company and our products. The work that you shall do will be mission critical for InMobi and will be critical for optimizing tech operations, working with highly capable and ambitious peer groups. At InMobi, you get food for your body, soul, and mind with daily meals, gym, and yoga classes, cutting-edge training and tools, cocktails at drink cart Thursdays and fun at work on Funky Fridays. We even promise to let you bring your kids and pets to work.
Microsoft and InMobi have entered into a strategic partnership. As per this, InMobi will be the exclusive partner for Microsoft’s search inventory. Microsoft Search Advertising empowers the largest advertisers around the world to reach their maximum potential through paid search engine marketing on the Microsoft Bing Ads platform. InMobi will be responsible for complete business management/transaction across Bing.
As a Sales Head in South Africa you are expected to drive new client acquisition and grow incremental revenue against a targeted list of high potential agencies and advertisers through continuous engagement. You are expected to continually build and maintain a pipeline of clients and agencies to be onboarded to the Microsoft Advertising platform. Collaborate with internal Account Managers and Strategy teams to develop quality customer plans targeted at revenue growth and customer satisfaction. Cultivating strategic client relationships, revenue generation and delivering customized search solutions will be key to your core function. Your success will be measured by specific key performance indicators focused on driving new customer acquisition, product adoption, emphasizing customer experience and optimizing opportunities.
What is expected out of you?
In the first quarter:
- Understand the Microsoft Advertising Ecosystem in South Africa and collaborate with internal stakeholders.
- Leverage your current relationships in the advertising ecosystem to drive revenue conversations as well as open up new relationships in the industry
- You will be expected to build a healthy predictable pipeline of clients to initiate and successfully close partnership and onboarding discussions.
- Consistently create high value revenue-generating opportunities that will work towards delivering quota expectations.
- Lead regular, impactful engagements with key clients.
- Coordinate with the required teams to help achieve targets.
Second Quarter Onwards:
- Master and grow the activities initiated in the first quarter
- Grow Bing’s share of wallet by continuing to onboard new clients and agencies
- Strengthen relationships with key client and agency stakeholders like (budget decision makers, media planners and senior leadership)
- Collaborate with internal account managers and client poc's to ensure opportunities are leveraged effectively
- Continually strengthen your Search Industry expertise, take personal accountability for your career and personal development;
- Complete required and recommended trainings and apply what you learn to further your growth in role and career progression
Role requirement & expectation:
- 12+ years of work experience with 8+ years of online media sales/digital advertising experience
- Strong network of clientele in the SA marketplace and an understanding of the key digital players (Brands, agencies etc.)
- Experience and ability to build a client base from scratch.
- Experience in lead generation, networking, and ad-agency relationship management.
- Experienced Digital media solution seller and talented in storytelling and delivering engaging presentations across all levels of leadership
- Ability to handle and manage key/strategic client relationships and revenue
- Ensure a strong metrics focused approach is applied in business planning and execution
- Proven ability to understand customer needs, create and deliver customized, customer-focused pitches and solutions
- Proven track record of exceptional performance, high productivity, communications skills, and meeting deadlines. Demonstrated ability to consistently meet or exceed revenue goals or targets
- Passion for technology as an enabler for company growth
- Effectively navigate through ambiguity and complexities related to client management
- Practice freedom with responsibility, entrepreneurial mindset and thought leadership.
- Possess excellent communication skills providing transparency and enabling information radiators
- Travel across SA markets to meet and strengthen partnerships with new and existing clients.
Preferred:
- MBA or Advanced degree preferred
- Understanding of the Digital Ecosystem
- Ad-Agency Experience
Location:
South Africa (will require frequent travel across MEA countries)
The InMobi Culture
At InMobi, culture isn’t a buzzword; it's an ethos woven by every InMobian, reflecting our diverse backgrounds and experiences.
We thrive on challenges and seize every opportunity for growth. Our core values — thinking big, being passionate, showing accountability, and taking ownership with freedom — guide us in every decision we make.
We believe in nurturing and investing in your development through continuous learning and career progression with our InMobi Live Your Potential program.
InMobi is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process and in the workplace.
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