Overview

Position Title: Business Development

Company:  ITV

Location:  Rotherham, UK

Job Description

Our Commercial team drives the largest revenue stream at ITV plc. We work hard to generate as much revenue as possible from our programmes and schedules, maximising airtime deals with advertisers directly or through agencies and coming up with creative ideas. We are looking for an experienced Business Development Executive to join the team.
As our Business Development Executive you will support the BD Account Managers who are responsible for business growth across a portfolio of media agencies and their clients, direct clients and creative agencies. You will have the opportunity to grow into the role and aim for advancement in a growing Commercial team that is integral to the ITV business.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and/or strengthen relationships with existing, new or lapsing clients to improve targeting of ITV brands and product offer
  • Maintaining revenue records, summaries and forecasts
  • Drive customer collaboration via a consistency of approach and innovation to positively shift perceptions of ITV Commercial
  • Compiling contracts and managing team admin alongside BDA
  • Ensuring internal staff have relevant booking details
  • Providing assistance and support to the Account Managers
  • Where appropriate support the team in representing and/or selling all of ITV’s commercial assets will be key across airtime and multiplatform, so some knowledge of media products (linear or OTT) is a distinct advantage
  • Compiling reports and presentations for agency meeting’s

 

Requirements:

  • Commercial awareness in delivering revenue and share of broadcast targets
  • Strong skills in MS Office or Google office (particularly manipulating sales data within spreadsheets)
  • Well organised with strong administration skills;
  • Client facing (virtual or in-person) experience in a sales environment
  • Experience in a corporate sales support admin environment
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About ITV

It’s an exciting time to join ITV. With the largest commercial family of channels in the UK and with our global footprint growing, we’re about to take not only our business, but also broadcasting, as we know it, to a whole new level.

We have a rich history for making fantastic award winning programs and we’re proud of it. In addition to traditional broadcasting on our channels, we deliver our content on demand through numerous platforms, both directly and via the ITV Hub. Through ITV Studios, our international content business - the largest production company in the UK, we produce content for both our own channels and third parties in the UK and increasingly overseas.

Our leadership is stronger than ever, together, we all work hard to focus on our people, on new technologies and the creative impact that makes ITV such a powerhouse.

We love what we do for our audience; we’ve built a lasting, warm and reassuring relationship with our viewers. They trust, like and look to us every day. We make our audience think, we make them sigh, we make them smile. If the prospect makes you do the same, we’d love for you to explore our current opportunities.