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Agency Lead

Location: Auckland

Team: Sales & Account Management

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This position is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

The area: Large Customer Sales (LCS)

The regional Large Customer Sales (LCS) teams partner closely with our major advertising clients and agencies to develop digital solutions that build our clients' businesses and brands. We are in a unique and exciting position to shape how marketing and business is conducted in the digital age. We generate revenue from across Google's broad range of solutions, from Google AdWords, to YouTube, to Mobile, that help our customers connect instantly and seamlessly with their audiences and get the most out of the web.

The role: Agency Lead

Reach for new revenue-generating heights as a Sales Googler. Businesses that partner with Google come in all shapes, sizes and market caps, and no one Google advertising solution works for all. Your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills and analytical abilities shapes how new and existing business grow. You leverage your entrepreneurial drive to target, educate and persuade new customers to embrace Google's latest advertising products and technologies. Using your influencing and relationship-building skills, you provide Google-caliber client service, research and market analysis. You anticipate how decisions are made, understand the details of individual campaigns and persistently explore and uncover the business needs of your key clients. Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users.

As an Agency Lead you own and develop Google’s relationship with our agency partners. You will develop and manage strong relationships with agency influencers and decision-makers whilst managing the reactive workflow that is received as agencies look to maximise the benefits of our products. You will serve as their ambassador within Google, evangelize and drive our products and technologies throughout the agency and identify sales and business-development opportunities.. You'll also collaborate with sales teams to exchange knowledge regarding client needs in specific industry sectors. Among your many attributes, you are self-starting, a natural leader and skilled at solving problems and explaining complex issues. You possess excellent communication/presentation skills at the senior level as well as the ability to work closely and constructively with all areas of the business.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and own of Google’s relationships with our agency partners - across the spectrum of buyers, planners and business directors.
  • Oversee and manage Industry team’s relationships with specific agency account teams.
  • Proactively manage workflow between agencies and Google’s sales channels.
  • Build compelling, data-driven work plans leveraging internal and third-party data.
  • Continually assess agency’s Google product capabilities, and build & deliver high impact training program to fill gaps.
  • Translate data into actionable strategies and recommendations for your agency partners.

Minimum qualifications:

  • BA/BS degree (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience).
  • 4 years of online sales, business-development experience and digital advertising sales/marketing.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience and relationships within the NZ agency marketplace.
  • Broad knowledge across all of Google’s product portfolio.
  • Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
  • Substantial experience in a comparable position in the online advertising industry.

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Agency Lead

Location: Auckland

Team: Sales & Account Management

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