Job Description

Strategic Account Manager - Reuters
Do you have experience in the digital media sector, knowledge within Financial Services, are passionate about the rise of trusted branded content and are looking for an exciting and challenging role? If so, Reuters wants to hear from you.

Reuters are looking for a dynamic and experienced Senior Strategic Account Manager with a successful track record of meeting and exceeding annual sales goals to join our fully integrated sales team in London. Selling across Reuters\xe2\x80\x99 extensive award-winning platforms; digital display and programmatic, native, mobile, video, account-based marketing, broadcast solutions, custom content and event sales. The role is primarily responsible for developing and managing Reuters\' financial services vertical which requires the skilled hand both from a business development and a sales perspective.

This role is working with Reuters Consumer. Reuters Consumer is an agile digital publishing business in the heart of the world\xe2\x80\x99s largest news organization. Our mission is to be the premier source of news for global professionals. We combine technology and editorial innovation across Reuters.com and Reuters TV to deliver a powerful experience to over 50 million monthly users on the web, mobile and set-top-boxes.

This is a very exciting time to join a new senior commercial team and represent our iconic brand, as Reuters redefines it\xe2\x80\x99s unique and highly sought after go-to-market capabilities. Reuters embodies the entrepreneurial spirit and is looking for our new team member to do the same

About the Role
As our Senior Strategic Account Manager, you will:

Lead the Reuters Financial Services vertical which includes managing existing relationships and driving new business for all Reuters media solutions

Pro-actively pitch new ideas, concepts and solutions to clients and have full coverage across their financial services vertical.

Stay on top of industry trends and understand how Reuters can maximize opportunities in new and emerging areas.

Provide accurate account management and forecasting

As the most senior sales leader within EMEA you are expected to be a mentor to your colleagues driving sales excellence and sharing media knowledge and insights, whilst hitting and exceeding targets. This role requires strong leadership skills to support the Senior Commercial Director in EMEA

About You
To be our Senior Strategic Account Manager, the essential skills are:

Significant Media Sales experience, with a background in Financial Services

Proven success in selling integrated programs on an international basis

Senior decision maker contacts within Investment Banking, Wealth managers and other Financial Services organisations across EMEA

Proven success in selling large value deals to clients direct and in conjunction with their agencies

Experience working in a collaborative environment that includes Sales, Editorial, Product and Design

A passion for news and journalism

What\xe2\x80\x99s in it For You
At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:
Global Career: As a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
Learning & Development: we have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our employees
Benefits: we offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits
Perks: Work alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world\xe2\x80\x99s most important stories

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we\xe2\x80\x99ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world\xe2\x80\x99s most global news services \xe2\x80\x93 Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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