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Sales24 days agoHybrid

Kayzen

Sales Lead, Holdco and Indie Agencies, EMEA (m/f/d)

sales leadagency salesprogrammatic advertisingdigital marketingadtechbusiness developmentEMEAagency relationshipscustomer acquisitionGTM strategy

Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Lead

Years experience

5-10

Location

London, United Kingdom

Full job description

Sales Lead role focused on opening new opportunities with agency customers (Holdco and Indie Agencies) in EMEA. Requires senior business leadership experience in adtech or digital marketing with a strong agency executive network. Responsibilities include leading a sales team, owning product positioning and commercial narrative, driving data-led selling, structuring and closing complex deals, and acquiring new customers. Must be able to travel to London office twice a week. Requirements include proven agency sales success, strategic revenue growth skills, understanding of programmatic advertising, strong communication, work ethic, business acumen, and a network across Publicis and WPP. Benefits include career growth, experienced team, flexible work-from-home, home-office budget, and learning budget.

What you'll do

  • Lead and grow a high-performing sales team, setting ambitious individual and team targets, coaching talent, and creating a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement
  • Own product positioning and commercial narrative for the agency segment, working cross-functionally with product and marketing to craft compelling, insight-led propositions that resonate with agency decision-makers
  • Drive data and insights-led selling, leveraging performance metrics, campaign analytics and market intelligence to sharpen GTM strategies, identify patterns across the book of business, and inform smarter commercial decisions
  • Structure and close complex commercials deals with agency holdcos and independent agencies, including preferred partnerships, framework agreements and programmatic guaranteed arrangements, ensuring commercial terms align to Kayzen's growth objectives
  • Acquire new customers through existing network and new outreach ensuring that ambitious sales targets are met

Requirements

  • Proven track record of winning new customers from the agency sector
  • A strategic approach to revenue growth with the ability to create a successful GTM
  • Detail-oriented and process driven with a structured problem-solving attitude and a KPI driven approach
  • Good understanding of programmatic advertising and digital marketing
  • Strong communication skills and people orientation - both internally and externally
  • Strong work ethics, results orientation, persuasiveness and high level of initiative and assertiveness
  • Good business acumen with an ability to identify and execute on growth opportunities
  • Enjoys working in a start-up environment with the flexibility to adapt to changing needs
  • A strong network of decision makers across Publicis and WPP

Tech stack

programmatic advertisingdigital marketingperformance metricscampaign analyticsmarket intelligence

Benefits

Exceptional career growth and learning opportunityA unique opportunity to be part of an experienced team of industry experts and entrepreneurs who bring massive change to the Adtech marketDirect, day-to-day work experience with the managementA fun, driven, and multinational team located across Germany, India, Argentina, Israel, Ukraine, Spain, the UK and more countriesA flexible work-from-home arrangementA 500-dollar home-office setup budgetA 1000-dollar annual learning and development budget

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