Business Development Manager

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Sector: Sales and Business Development
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Business Development Manager

ITV Commercial

12 month fixed term position

Office location: Gateshead

Hiring range: From £35,000 plus bonus & 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's 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 role

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Business Development Manager to join our Gateshead based team on a fixed term basis.

Reporting to the Business Manager, the Business Development Manager will lead on business growth across a portfolio of media agencies and their clients, direct clients and creative agencies.

Your focus will be on developing strategic customer partnerships through business intelligence, idea generation, creative portfolio pitching, negotiating trading deals and campaign delivery, maximising revenue and share into ITV and enhancing our reputation in the market. As a team, you will be focused on delivering big ideas as well as developing new revenue streams across emerging platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Inputting into the Business Plan and taking joint responsibility for implementing it
• Delivering revenue growth and reputation within the team and area on a defined set of agencies/clients
• Building strategic senior customer relationships, focussed on driving incremental revenue and problem-solving to turnaround revenue decline/issues
• Communicating key opportunities and issues to the Business Manager as they arise
• Representing and selling all of ITV's commercial assets across airtime and multiplatform
• Responsible for growing incremental revenue and enhancing ITV's reputation in the market
• Managing budgets including commercial marketing, hospitality and travel
• Working closely with agencies and clients (direct and via agency) focusing and selling how ITV can help them to achieve their business goals
• Communicate and implement best practice and consistent messages/behaviours across all offices to drive consistent delivery
• Strong peer group relationships with other Business Development Managers in team and across the business as well as with Group Managers across Partnerships, Trading and Activation
• Have a broad knowledge of what ITV can offer across all its touch points with the audience and how to create effective communications through ideas
• Develop strong strategic customer relationships with key influencers in media agencies (senior management, planners, data, digital, buyers), creative agencies and priority clients within agency
• Build pipelines of new business among new/lapsed advertisers through targeting other media and being aware of opportunities within the geographic area
• Promote ITV as a media partner of choice for non-traditional, cross-media advertising campaigns
• Forecasting performance and accurate reporting/regular comms and updates
• Integrate all platform and portfolio revenue opportunities into potential approaches where possible

Skills you'll need (minimum criteria)

• Comprehensive knowledge of the TV trading market and other media
• Comprehensive knowledge of all trading parameters
• Strong insight into understanding agency and client motivations/challenges/opportunities
• Strong negotiator with a proven track record
• Experience of creating and delivering annual business plans to deliver incremental revenue from agency accounts and priority clients
• Ability to brief, develop and deliver bespoke, creative, cross-media communication propositions to address specific client needs
• Commercial awareness in delivering revenue and share of broadcast targets

Other things we're looking for (key criteria)

• Ability to build strong relationships with customers as well as motivate and galvanise the Business Development Executive
• Highly creative and innovative approach to business - tenacious and good at problem-solving as well as thinking laterally
• Creative and commercial approach - able to bring fresh thinking and ideas to the table
• Entrepreneurial spirit to seize opportunities
• Good analytical reporting and attention to detail
• Confidence to challenge the norm, not be risk averse and break new ground
• Strong communication skills and presentation skills

ITV is for everyone.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from Deaf, Disabled and/or Neurodivergent 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

Please note, on occasion we may receive a very large volume of applications which means applications for a role may close earlier than the referenced closing date. We'd encourage you to apply as soon as possible if interested.

Closing date 3rd January 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 under ITV’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 at talkingcareers@itv.com.

For further details & a list of our vacancies, please visit itvcareers.com.

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