Senior Director, Brand Partnerships - Finance

About The Position 

Dotdash Meredith is hiring a Senior Director of Brand Partnerships with a strong background and focus on the Finance category within the advertising sales space. This role will specifically work within our core finance category as a subject matter expert in brokerage, retirement, asset management and banking. In this role, you would be responsible for using your category knowledge and expertise to forge new partnerships and grow existing business.

About Your Contributions:

• Responsible for representing the entire Dotdash Meredith portfolio to our Financial Services clients utilizing our robust ad product playbook to help achieve their business goals. 

• Stay educated and keyed into your clients’ business challenges and work to bring them top of the line advertising solutions to solve their business challenges

• Develop and grow strong relationships with client and agency partners across multiple levels of both organizations

• Lead strong relationships where you have intelligence about your clients’ goals and objectives ‘before the RFP’, stay a step ahead

• Close sales on a variety of solutions to clients including custom content, editorial sponsorships, mobile executions, programmatic, and demonstrate a curiosity for new and evolving products

• Forecast, track and report revenue contribution and performance with our internal tools

• Champion the strategic mission of the sales team by raising ideas, questions and concerns as we work to continually elevate our work in the marketplace

• Serve as a category expert in the Personal Fiance space by studying industry trends, challenges and opportunities and collaborate internally to help anticipate client needs.

• Meet and exceed quarterly and annual revenue goals

Hybrid 3x a week- New York

In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements

Education:

N/A

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years of sales experience in digital media, with a demonstrated track record of success in breaking accounts without no prior history of spending

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:

• Relationships within Financial Services categories strongly preferred

• Working collaboratively with sales support staff internally is in your DNA

• You have a positive attitude, enthusiasm, high energy, and a passion for excellence

• Results-driven orientation, superior client management skills, excellent follow-up and follow-through

• Independent self-starter who comes equipped with strong contacts at key digital agencies and clients and can get up and running quickly

• High degree of integrity and business ethics

• Willing to travel as needed

% Travel Required (Approximate): 25%