Senior Business Development Manager
Connexity | Skimlinks, a Taboola company
- Beijing
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage, retain and accelerate growth of accounts through highly pro-active client engagement including the evaluation of publishers’ long term strategic objectives
- On-board and develop strategic relationships with a diverse range of publishers including; Editorial, Influencers, Buy now Pay Later and shopping publishers and more
- Upsell your Publishers on Skimlinks/Taboola services and tools to generate incremental revenue
- Develop strategic plans for client portfolio to drive revenue growth, deliver on KPIs and achieve operational excellence
- Develop and implement strategies to optimise high-quality editorial partners, Buy Now Pay Later providers, influencers, coupon and other shopping tools, including wishlist, gifting, and price comparison
- Build and convert a pipeline of new business
- Become a key strategic partner to top tier publishers & merchants
- Identify and create new value opportunity with top tier publishers
- Identify opportunities to align our current or potential product offerings with the goals and themes of top tier publishers
- Closely monitor and evaluate campaign performance. Work closely with analytics team on campaign strategy and optimisations
- Resolve account issues pro-actively and expediently; work cross departmentally for issue resolution when needed
- Provide marketplace feedback and competitive intelligence to internal groups to improve and enhance product offerings
- Attend tradeshows / conferences to evangelize our value proposition to new and existing clients
- Utilize internal and Salesforce dashboards to understand progress against targets and how to reach them
- Present quarterly business reviews for top publishers & merchants
- Regularly analyse data around how a publisher is performing, benchmarking them against their competitors and providing suggestions for how they can grow
- Compile and analyse Publisher reports in regards to activities with specific merchants
- Collaborate with the Operations team to ensure seamless implementation of Skimlinks technology
- Collaborate with merchant team and some local merchants to bring forward optimisations based on CPC, CPA, CPL, Flat fee opportunities to publishers
- Negotiate on optimisation methods with merchants
- Help publishers to collate media kits and use for incremental budget requests from merchants
- 5+ years of account management & business development experience
- New business acquisition experience with a proven track record within a structured digital environment
- Fluent reading, writing and speaking Mandarin Chinese
- Strong proficiency in English reading, writing and speaking
- Solid understanding of the advertising, affiliate marketing, paid search, online publishing or media industry
- Understanding of CPC and CPA cost models and KPIs associated with Publisher ecosystem (CTR, conversion rate, EPC, ROAS etc.)
- Demonstrated success in negotiating, relationship building and account management
- Strong analytic, quantitative and technical aptitude with great attention to detail
- Driven to help publishers find growth opportunity
- Excellent verbal, written and communication skills
- Self-motivated, driven, flexible and adaptable with a proven track record of exceeding goals
- Salesforce/Microsoft Office/Excel/PowerPoint
- BA/BS Degree
- Medical & Dental Insurance
- Above statutory annual leave
- Parental leave policy
- Hybrid working
- Quarterly bonus
- Social contributions