Overview

Position Title: Business Development

Company:  ITV

Location:  Preston, UK

Job Description

We will be a digitally led entertainment and media company that creates and brings brilliant content to audiences, wherever, whenever and however they choose.
We connect with millions of people every day, make content they can’t get enough of and reflect and shape the world we live in… and we do all this through the power of creativity.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Feed into weekly and monthly management board reporting.
  • Keeping up to date with overall business trends
  • Keeping up to date with economic and business developments
  • Manage client expectations through excellent communication and account management to the point of sale.
  • Excellent standard of work and a passion for the role, department and company are key in this role along with a desire to grow the business.
  • Identifying and contacting potential customers via emails and phonecalls to increase brand awareness.
  • Revise existing marketing strategy and implement it as well as devising a long time strategy for the department for external business.
  • Complete and RFI/RFP documentation for tenders
  • Securing meetings with those identified customers to sell our services and increase external sales
  • Build a comprehensive client list to enable CD to utilise data in order to boost revenue and awareness.
  • Ensure daily/weekly/monthly volume targets are met, reported on and work is prioritised accordingly.
  • Ensure at all times the highest possible standards of customer service to external clients.
  • Manage the preparation of the monthly financial reporting within Salesforce and the Finance team

 

Requirements:

  • The ability to keep objectives, targets and goals firmly in sight
  • An understanding of Content Services processes, capabilities and services provided will be critical for this role.
  • Good communication skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Creativity
  • Persuasion skills
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Self-motivated
  • Good business and operational knowledge
  • Negotiation skills
  • A strong and ever increasing professional network
  • A hunger to stay up to date with economic matters
  • A good grasp of numbers and the ability to write documents in a professional style
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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.