Senior Advertising Sales Director

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success. To shape the future of travel, people must come first. We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees\’ passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. As a Senior Sales Leader for Expedia Group Advertising, you will inspire and manage a team of sellers across Europe. Your responsibilities include recruitment, onboarding, coaching, and performance monitoring, ensuring the team meets sales targets while maintaining your own book of business. You will grow sales through new client acquisition and retention of existing accounts, develop strategic territory plans, and foster long-term relationships with key clients. Collaboration with the Director of Business Development on global sales practices and cross-functional leadership to identify opportunities and solidify the EG Advertising value proposition is essential. You will represent EG Advertising at industry events, promote EG Advertising internally, and provide valuable feedback and insights to the team. Prioritising team success and leading change implementation are key aspects of this role, driving EG Advertising\’s success in the designated territory. Managing the recruitment, onboarding, objectives setting, coaching and performance monitoring of said sales team including input on revenue targets and forecasting. •Achieving growth and hitting sales targets by successfully leading a team of individual contributors whilst maintaining own book of business. •Growing EG Advertising sales footprint within region through new client acquisition and retention/growth of existing accounts, leading deal negotiations with key clients. Guiding sellers to develop robust territory plans and strategies (Sales & Marketing) & help direct reports manage complexity and working through ambiguity •Work with Director Business Development of strategy and sales management practices to establish a global sales practice within EG Advertising. •Work with cross functional leadership to find opportunities, inform decision-making and solidify the EG Advertising value proposition in-region and company-wide •Work with executive-level media industry leaders to establish EG Advertising as a leader and innovator in digital media •Attend and participate in key industry events, conferences, speaking opportunities, etc with the ability to represent all of EG Advertising •Evangelize EG Advertising internally and work with internal teams to increase value of partner relationships •Regularly give valuable input and feedback to teammates including insight and learnings from weekly sales results. •lead the implementation and acceptance of change Significant experience in digital media preferably within the travel industry. •Experience managing, mentoring, and motivating sales team •Bachelor’s degree required. •Proven sales and marketing management experience. •Track record of consistently exceeding sales goals, individually and as a manager of a team •Strong sales prospecting, negotiating, and closing skill set •Excellent communication skills – in both written and oral presentation – influencing and relationship building skills •Strong marketing & commercial instinct with entrepreneurial drive •Sales management experience in online marketing & advertising •Experience delivering high quality results, whilst thriving in a dynamic environment Accommodation requests If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request . We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others. Expedia Group\’s family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.