Teads are looking for a Industry Director, Retail to join our growing Strategic Accounts team in our London office.

You will be responsible for forging partnerships & driving incremental revenue growth on key accounts across local markets.

This role offers the opportunity to join an industry pioneer & leader in full funnel advertising solutions, & one that is experiencing rapid growth.The Retail vertical is a critical growth lever & the Industry manager will be tasked with developing existing & new relationships & partnerships with the largest Retail clients. Retail is a broad category, encompassing but not limited to, department stores, grocery, direct to consumer & high street brands.

Our advertising solutions are bought by many of the UKs largest Retailers including Co-op, Aldi, Next, Primark, ASDA, Dixons, Specsavers, B&Q, McDonalds, Ikea & many others. And, we need you to add to these key strategic accounts with large retail brands in the UK.

The Industry Director will report to the VP of Strategic Accounts Teads UK & work closely with local/global Industry Directors in key markets to manage & step change growth & senior level client relationships.The Industry Director will also work very closely with the Agency Sales team to manage senior level agency relationships. 

==== Responsibilities =====

• Youll have overall responsibility for delivery of numbers & be the expert across these Retail clients in local markets.

• Ensure that the Client media team actively supports/endorses the use of Teads.

• Build relations at the most senior level across all client departments ( Marketing, Insights, data).

• Understand client objectives & Media needs, ways of working, & share this knowledge within Teads.

• Develop best in class communication & decks tailored to client & their needs

• Support the local markets to unlock opportunities by leveraging existing & proactive relationsship to help set up meetings, attend key local meetings as appropriate (min 2 per year).

• Share best practice with teams.

==== In addition you will ====

• Serve as an industry expert in order to drive vertical & client success by developing thought leadership within your vertical(s)
• Drive external & internal market knowledge & insights
• Proactive engagement with industry committees & conference

==== Requirements =====

• Strong understanding & background in Retail ( min 5 years experience ideally)
• Ability to build relationships with top marketing/media decision makers
• Proven experience in collaborative to build long term sustainable partnership growth
• Excellent communication & presentation skills
• Knowledge of online video, display & performance 
• Proven leadership ability to influence, develop, & empower colleagues to achieve objectives with a team approach
• Ability to convert business from other media channels.

===== About Teads ======

Teads operates a leading, cloud-based, omnichannel platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across a global ecosystem of quality digital media.

As an end-to-end solution, Teads modular platform allows partners to leverage buy-side, sell-side, creative, data & AI optimization technologies. For advertisers & their agencies, Teads offers a single access point to buy the inventory of many of the worlds best publishers & content providers.

Through exclusive global media partnerships, Teads enables advertisers & agencies to reach billions of unique monthly users in brand safe, responsible advertising environments, while improving the effectiveness & efficiency of digital ad transactions.

Teads partners with the leading marketers, agencies & publishers through a team of 1,200+ people in 50 offices across more than 30 countries.

We're committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity & inclusion, & represents employees across a variety of skill sets. We embrace contributions from all ages, sexes, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations & gender identities. 

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