Advertising Sales Manager, Italy (London based)

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company in the open web! We’re looking for a commercially driven and growth-focused Growth Advertising Sales Manager to join our Italian Growth team in London. In this role, you’ll be responsible for generating new business, prospecting and closing deals, and driving significant revenue growth in the Italian market. You’ll act as a strategic consultant to advertisers, working with a fast-moving, high-potential market, while collaborating cross-functionally with internal teams to optimize performance and deliver results.

To thrive in this role, you’ll need:

• Native or professional fluency in Italian and English
• Strong prospecting skills, with the ability to identify and engage high-potential leads
• A proven track record in B2B sales and/or performance marketing
• Strong deal-closing, negotiation, and objection-handling skills
• Self-starter with strong organizational skills
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Independence and motivation to manage a full sales cycle
• Ability to prioritize and manage tasks in a fast-paced, target-driven environment
• Active listening, structured thinking, and confidence in client-facing conversations
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team and contribute to shared goals

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience in ad tech, social media marketing or general performance advertising
• Understanding of media buying KPIs (CPM, CTR, ROAS, etc.)
• Familiarity with sales tools (e.g., Clay, Apollo, Lusha, Salesforce, LinkedIn Sales Navigator)
• Vertical-specific experience (e.g., ecom/Shopify)
• Creative pitching and storytelling (Canva)
• Multilingual communication skills

How you’ll make an impact:

• Driving and delivering on quarterly new business targets by identifying, pitching, and closing advertising deals
• Managing the full sales cycle - from prospecting to activation
• Generating a high volume of outreach and creating qualified opportunities
• Building long-term relationships with key players in the Italian digital advertising market
• Acting as a trusted advisor to clients, bringing data-driven recommendations and strategic insights
• Participating in key industry events and conferences
• Collaborating with internal teams including Sales, AMs, Product, and Support

Why Taboola? If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

• Well-being: With an office culture that’s international, social and supportive, Taboola offers very generous benefits including 25 days holiday, excellent health insurance, some flexible working, and stock options to name just a few.
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

Ready to realize your potential? Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

About Taboola: Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale. Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world.