Agency Lead

**Agency Lead - Manchester based**

The most important aspect of this role is to source significant levels of new business, develop strong client relationships, mentor and support junior members of the team and deliver the highly professional service for which Blis are renowned.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Leverage existing and new relationships to build their own pipeline of opportunity across the Blis product set
- Target customers are media agencies including mobile specialists and independents
- Conversion of pipeline and acquisition of new customers and accounts to achieve aggressive targets
- Create and lead sales presentations for the team
- Strong relationship building and account management of customers
- Ensure a high level of accuracy across campaigns
- Have an active role and input in team strategy and company sales meetings
- Minimum requirement of 60 meetings per quarter and recorded in Zoho Commitment to Blis' Inclusion initiatives & 5 step sustainability plan

**Skills and Requirements**
- Strong background in digital media sales and account management
- Expert knowledge of mobile display advertising, programmatic media and data offerings
- Currently leveraging digital budgets from media / mobile agencies
- Existing relationships within media agency groups, preferable of GroupM/Dentsu/Independents
- A demonstrable understanding of the needs and requirements of digital media buyers
- A proven track record of growing a pipeline from scratch
- The confidence to present to large and small audiences
- A proven ability to close deals and achieve targets
- Demonstrable self-starter experience
- Commitment to being a team player in a dynamic environment

**About us**

Blis is the geo-powered advertising tech stack. We’ve built a radically different omnichannel advertising solution structured on geography, not identity. Audience Explorer is our powerful audience planning platform delivering actionable intelligence & insight to advertisers.

With Blis, advertisers can plan unified audiences with data from premium partners, connected by geo. Buy audiences using smart cookieless technology that can double performance and halve costs. Measure the audience, not just the channel, with patent-pending omnichannel measurement technology.

Established in the UK in 2004, Blis now operates in more than 40 offices across five continents. Working with the world’s largest and most successful companies, as well as every major media agency.

As an equal opportunity employer, we treat all our employees and job applicants fairly and equally. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination and take all reasonable steps to create a work environment in which all employees are treated with respect and dignity. We don't condone or tolerate any form of harassment, by employees or by others who do business with us.

**Our Values - B.L.I.S.**
**Brave**

We're leaders not followers

An innovation and growth mindset helps us solve everyday challenges and achieve breakthroughs. Our passion drives us to innovate. We don’t see barriers, just possibilities.

We take ownership and hold ourselves accountable for outcomes, good and bad - and we don’t pass the buck.

**Love our clients**

We're client obsessed

We do what we say and build trusted relationships with our partners for the long term. We act with integrity. We put our clients at the center of our business. We obsess over the best insights, ideas and solutions to deliver WOW and work with honesty and accountability to get it done.

**Inclusive**

We're one team

We are empathetic and embrace diversity. Everyone has a voice and can bring their authentic self to work. We care about and support each other - with humility and good humor. Mutual respect and wellbeing are key. We strive to eliminate bias and be open and transparent.

**Solutions driven**

We're action oriented

Speed matters in business, so we're solution-driven and action-oriented. We value simplification and calculated risk taking. We are lean, agile and resourceful self-starters. We collaborate and break silos, working thoughtfully and with urgency to solve problems, while learning from mistakes and celebrating wins.