New Business Manager - Media Agency - #2130830

Our client is a growing media agency working with major brands across the UK and Europe.

They support clients across digital media and marketing, combining strategic, commercial and operational expertise across a range of customer engagements.

The business is continuing to grow and is looking for a New Business Manager to support its new client acquisition activity across the UK and Europe.

This is a London-based hybrid role.

• You will support the wider senior team with new business activity across the UK and Europe.

• This is primarily a sales support and new business coordination role, rather than a traditional quota-carrying sales position.

• You will maintain the sales pipeline, ensuring opportunities, activity and next steps are kept accurate and up to date.

• You will prepare regular pipeline updates for senior leadership.

• You will support senior team members in identifying and researching prospective clients and new pitch opportunities.

• You will help coordinate outreach activity and ensure follow-up actions are completed.

• You will support the day-to-day management of relationships with relevant industry partners and intermediaries.

• You will help track conversations, schedule touchpoints and flag potential new opportunities to senior team members.

• You will join prospect meetings and introductory calls, taking ownership of follow-up actions and tracking them through to completion.

• You will coordinate the RFI and RFP process, managing timelines, internal contributors, formatting and deadlines.

• You will support the wider team with pitch preparation and help ensure new business processes run smoothly.

• You will draft and tailor sales materials, proposals and client-facing documents for prospective customers.

• You will coordinate input from different teams across the business to ensure pitches and responses are delivered to a high standard.

• You will work closely with Marketing to support external sales and marketing content.

• You will help keep the overall new business process organised, structured and moving forward.

• Around 3 years of experience within media a media agency in a client-facing role

• Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce polished, client-ready materials.

• Comfortable researching prospective clients and supporting senior commercial stakeholders with outreach activity.

• Experience managing sales pipelines, trackers or CRM systems.

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.

• Comfortable managing multiple workstreams and deadlines at the same time.

• Proactive and collaborative, with the ability to work closely with senior stakeholders across the business.

• Comfortable taking ownership of follow-up actions and ensuring activity progresses.

• Working knowledge of the AdTech ecosystem and media buying platforms would be beneficial.

• Someone who enjoys the coordination, organisation and execution side of new business, rather than needing to personally own a sales target.

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