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Company Name: Nielsen

Job Description

Nielsen Job Advertisement: Regional Sales Director - Marketing Mix Modeling

At Nielsen, we believe in partnering with you to help you succeed in your career. By joining our team, you become part of a supportive community of nearly 14,000 associates who champion your growth. We value your success because it contributes to our own. We encourage you to embark on new initiatives, think big, and continuously improve. Your best work powers our future.

About the Role:

As a Regional Sales Director in the Marketing Mix Modeling department at Nielsen, you will play a vital role in helping our clients ensure that every dollar they spend on marketing is profitable. We provide data-driven insights, software interfaces, and consultation to help our clients achieve the results they need. We work with various stakeholders, from CMOs to insights teams, media teams to market research, brands to commerce, and global to local.

Responsibilities and Mission:

• Build and update an action plan to achieve sales objectives
• Exceed quarterly/annual sales targets by prospecting and closing new deals with new clients and cultivating relationships with existing clients to secure contracts with new brands
• Manage a complex sales cycle, involving the entire sales process and relevant resources such as solution consultants, customer success team, legal, finance, etc.
• Meet key performance indicators, focusing on closing new business and finding new opportunities with existing clients
• Create and maintain an accurate sales opportunity pipeline in Salesforce to ensure target achievement
• Collaborate closely with Customer Success and Operations teams to meet financial goals and ensure program delivery matches sales promises
• Work closely with Nielsen Media organization within your territory to leverage Nielsen's extensive reach
• Engage and develop relationships with senior executives across a range of advertisers and platforms
• Deliver short-term results while maintaining a long-term perspective to maximize overall revenue generation
• Accurately forecast quarterly revenue attainment
• Embrace our "Challenger" sales approach

Qualifications:

• Significant sales experience in media measurement and/or enterprise SaaS technology and marketing return on investment solutions
• Thorough understanding of marketing effectiveness measurement
• Fluent in English and native French language skills are essential
• Successful experience in sales, consistently meeting or exceeding individual quotas exceeding 1 million USD
• Experience in closing six-figure contracts
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including strong presentation skills
• Strong understanding of solution selling and consulting
• Self-motivated, capable of generating sales leads and building strong partnerships
• Passion for sales and customer satisfaction

What We Offer:

In addition to a competitive salary and benefits package, working at Nielsen Media offers:

• Varied responsibilities and an open corporate culture with opportunities for development
• Independent work in a motivated and friendly team
• Social responsibility, open communication, and living our values in everyday work
• Opportunities for ownership and personal development in a dynamic media company

Diversity:

At Nielsen, we value diversity and strive to create inclusive environments where all our colleagues can succeed. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

We look forward to receiving your application! Apply for this job [link to application page]

Useful Links:

• Nielsen Marketing Mix Modeling: [link]
• Understanding Marketing Mix Modeling: [link]

About Nielsen:

At Nielsen, we measure what the world watches and buys. We collect data around the clock and provide a comprehensive understanding of today's market and what will happen tomorrow for our clients. We work with industry leaders, small businesses, consumer goods companies, and media companies in over 100 countries. Discover what awaits you at Nielsen: careers.nielsen.com