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Business Development Executive
ITV Commercial
12 month fixed term position
Gateshead (hybrid working)
From £27,000, plus bonus and benefits
Your work matters to millions.
Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it's not surprising that you'll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we're at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.
When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact is felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.
Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don't just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.
Your impact sends ripples.
The team
Our ITV Commercial team is responsible for bringing in the £1.9bn worth of advertising that helps fund ITV's programming. However, our Commercial team isn't just about advertising sales jobs, with an ever-changing marketplace and a multitude of new platforms just waiting for you to tap into, selling TV and online advertising has never been so exciting.
The role
We have a new opportunity for a Business Development Executive to join our ITV Commercial team in Gateshead.
As Business Development Executive, you'll be a key support function to the Business Development team as we strive to deliver competitive advantage and commercial revenue growth for ITV.
You will have a creative and commercial approach to this role, combined with excellent product and operational knowledge is crucial. This will deliver the "Better Together" message, and competitive advantage that are at the foundation of a more collaborative working relationship to benefit agency and client.
Responsibilities:
* Providing assistance and support to the Business Development Managers
* Maintaining revenue records, summaries and forecasts managing team admin
* Ensuring internal staff have relevant booking details for confirmed deals
* Compiling reports and presentations for agency meetings
* Representing and selling all of ITV's commercial assets will be key across airtime and multiplatform, so a rounded knowledge of media and product is crucial
* Ultimately to drive customer collaboration via a consistency of approach and innovation to positively shift perceptions of ITV Commercial
* Helping to manage reputation for innovation, pro-activity and ideas among agencies and advertisers
* Supporting the Business Development Manager to develop strong working relationships with key influencers in media agencies (senior management, planners, data, digital, buyers), creative agencies and priority clients within a portfolio to create opportunities for incremental revenue
* Building ITV profile with Agency Planners, Client Category and Marketing Directors to broaden ITV customer base beyond traditional buyers
* Developing and/or strengthen relationships with existing, new or lapsed clients to improve targeting of ITV brands and product offering
* Promoting ITV as media partner of choice for non-traditional, cross-media advertising campaigns
Skills you'll need (minimum criteria):
* Proven sales experience, including client service experience, negotiation, airtime management and delivering revenue targets
* Knowledge of TV advertising market is essential
* Communications skills, the ability to liaise and collaborate with colleagues and agencies is essential
* Strong organisation skills
Other things we're looking for (key criteria):
* Proactive and positive attitude; sound time management skills / ability to prioritise
* Preferable to have some experience of airtime negotiations and hence how to use sales / marketing data to support an 'argument'
* Presentation skills would be advantageous
* Good knowledge of agencies, clients and business within the portfolio
* Proven ability to build commercial relationships with key influencers from across media agencies (senior management, planners, data, digital, broadcast)
* Good understanding of the media marketplace, with focus on TV and online
* Highly creative and innovative approach to business
* Confidence to challenge the 'norm', not be risk averse and enjoy breaking new ground
* Commercial awareness in delivering revenue and share of broadcast targets.
ITV is for everyone.
ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we'll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).
We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com.
Find out more about applying with a disability.
*There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.
Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.
ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including:
* Flexible working with a range of options
* Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
* Annual bonus opportunity
* Competitive pension contribution
* Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
* Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life
More about our benefits
Closing date: 10th February 2025
Company
ITV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK. Which means we offer some of the biggest career opportunities in the industry.
We love telly, we’re passionate about content, and most importantly we understand our audiences. Thanks to an impressive 60-year history, our leadership is stronger than ever. And with the right people on board, we’re about to take our business – and broadcasting as we know it – to a whole new level.
We’ve also got the kind of inclusive working environment where you’ll never stop learning. One that’s at the heart of popular culture, that’s passionate about new tech, that has a truly international reach, and is incredibly focused on developing our teams; individuals and on the diversity of our workforce as a whole.
In other words, it’s somewhere that everyone can thrive.
We’re 60 years of TV history - and we’re also its future. Which means there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.
Here at ITV, we celebrate individuality, we’re committed to create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
ITV loves a level playing field
It’s just a natural part of what we do.
It’s your talent that really matters and we want you to be the best you can be. So, our aim is to make sure our workforce reflects the diversity of modern society, which is why we promise to treat you with fairness and respect, whatever your age, gender, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, ethnicity or marriage/civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity status and family circumstances.
As members of the Creative Diversity Network (CDN), we’ve made a public commitment to improve representation of society on screen, and to become more diverse and inclusive behind the scenes too. Our work underITV’s Social Partnership underpins our commitment across programme making and production for better representation. At the end of the day we want our workforce to represent the audience it serves. It’s a pretty big goal, but one that we get closer to all the time.
If you need to discuss an alternative way to submit your application, we’ll always try to meet your individual needs wherever possible. To find out more, you can email us direct attalkingcareers@itv.com.
For further details & a list of our vacancies, please visit itvcareers.com.
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