Brand Account Representative in Bath

Job Title: Brand Account Representative

Dept: Advertising Sales

Salary: £30,000

Company description

Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in the buzzing, creative city of Bristol. We\’re home to market-leading brands in craft, cycling, science and nature, homes and music.

We help our audiences pursue their passions through highly trusted, original content – in print, video and online. Our much-loved brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, YourHome, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus.

We also have an award-winning content agency that works with major charities, brands and membership organisations to help them tell their stories and engage audiences better – in print, video, and online.

Position

The Brand Account Representative plays a key role in driving Advertising revenue into their brands, they are responsible for the growth of our \”opportunity clients\” who have been identified within specific brand verticals. The client base will generally range from our Mid to Higher and will work closely with the Brand Partner to maximise these clients’ opportunities. You will have a remit of building relationships with clients and delivering tailored advertising solutions to meet the client\’s marketing needs. You will also have responsibility to grow client volume by seeking new business from agreed Brand vertical remits.

For a full list of job responsibilities, please see the job description on our careers site.

Requirements

Essential

• Proven ability to build and maintain strong client relationships
• Strong new business development and prospecting skills
• Experience delivering advertising revenue aligned to client objectives
• Strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Results-driven, self-motivated, and commercially astute

Desirable

• Experience working in media sales or advertising partnerships
• Experience collaborating closely with Internal teams
• Understanding of cross-platform or multi-channel advertising solutions
• Experience managing longer-term strategic partnerships

This role suits a motivated sales professional who excels at building client relationships and identifying new business opportunities. You\’ll be responsible for driving advertising revenue within specific brand verticals, working with the Brand Partner to maximise client potential. Your ability to deliver tailored advertising solutions and grow the client base will be key to success, focusing on new business and expanding relationships with mid to high-tier clients.

Other information

We respect and value differences. We believe that when people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives work together, we can create the most value for our people, readers, customers, and society. If you are excited about this role but your experience doesn\’t align perfectly with everything listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may still be a good fit for this or other roles.

We’re striving to create a more diverse and inclusive environment and to ensure our content is representative of all our audiences. We have established five internal D&I network groups to help our people feel supported and included, and to provide an open environment for people to network, mentor and exchange ideas, solutions, and experiences. If there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible for you, please do let us know at recruitment@ourmedia.co.uk.

Flexible and hybrid working

We know we create great things and have fun when we come together in person and collaborate. We also know that working from home brings great benefits in terms of being able to focus on our work, and manage our personal lives around our roles. With this in mind, we have established a hybrid working pattern, with 60% of the working week spent in the office.

Our people also benefit from a flexi time policy, and a flexi location policy which gives everyone the opportunity to work from another location for two weeks during the year. We are open to discussion about flexible working requests for any flexibility needs not covered by these policies.

Company benefits include

• Pension contribution matched to 5%
• Season ticket loan
• Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
• Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
• Social committee, regular in-house learning events
• 4x life assurance

Our values

We strongly believe that work is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. We want our people to thrive and develop, and we want to effect positive change in the world.

We have an ambitious and robust sustainability strategy, which includes a zero-to-waste, renewable-energy-fuelled office at Eagle House, the complete removal of single-use plastics from our supply chain, and a roadmap to be fully carbon neutral by 2030.

To put that spirit at the heart of our business, we created a set of values with input from everyone here. Our values are:

• Be kind
• Always curious
• Be the best we can be

We also have a sustainability strategy that is built on five key pillars: Research, Reduction, Recycling, Responsibility, and Reporting. We take pride in our strong partnerships across our complex supply chain to drive emission reductions. Additionally, our office building, Eagle House, is a zero-waste facility powered by solar and renewable energy.

Apply today to take the next step in your career with Our Media.