Vendor Sales Lead (EMEA) - LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
Company Description
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun - where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
This role will be based in Dublin, Ireland.
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust andoptimizedfor culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will beperformed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, asdeterminedby the business needs of the team.
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) is searching for a Vendor Sales Lead to join our team. In this role you will partner with our vendor-based Account Executives who educate and persuade new customers to embrace the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions platform capabilities.The Vendor Sales Lead will focus on training our partner reps and team leads on the LMS product suite, bestpracticesand systems. The Vendor Sales Lead will help uspenetratenew markets throughonboardingnew partnersand/or expandingsuccessful ongoing relationships withexistingvendors. The Vendor Sales Lead will be accountable for vendor business performance, customer engagement quality and the successful execution of LinkedIn Marketing Solutions sales programs. This role will drive revenue growth through effective vendor leadership, operational excellence, data-driven performance management and scalable sales execution.
Responsibilities:
- Onboard and coach vendor-based team leads and reps to the LMS product suite, bestpracticesand systems.
- Own revenue operations requirements relating to planning, forecasting and KPI development and tracking.
- Monitor weekly sales performance metrics and share sales & customer insights with internal sales leadership via weekly updates and monthly reviews.
- Conduct weekly business reviews, ensuring rigorous performance diagnoses, mitigation plans and follow up to deliverrevenue and growth expectations.
- Build influential, trusted partner relationships and vendor sales management while providing appropriate support, bestpracticesand guidance, including consulting onGTM strategy andkey market trends
- Identify opportunities to improve sales outcomesincludingfinding innovative and scalable ways to deliver results and unlock growth, andpartner with central teams toexecutevendor operations improvement initiatives.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years in experience in advertising sales, marketing,consultingor customer support
- 2+ years of experience with development,trainingand coaching in a sales environment
- Business fluency in English and at least one other European language
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong prior experience in digital advertising industry in sales, account services,marketingor business development
- Experience leading, managing or partnering with outsourced, vendor-based or indirect sales organisations
- Experience in motivating, inspiring and driving teams to sustainable growth.
- Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools and workflows to improve seller productivity, customer engagement and business performance.
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment and can embrace rapid change and innovationwith asuperior entrepreneurial sense
- Strong understanding of sales management, pipeline management, forecasting, coaching and performance improvement methodologies
- Experience with analysis of sales activities and metrics,thinkingcriticallyabout abusiness,owningsales performancemanagementand managing customer outcomes
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skillswith experience navigating a matrix environment
- Ability to influence internal and vendor stakeholders without authority through clear and persuasive communication
Suggested Skills:
- Advertising Sales
- Vendor management
- Sales Coaching
Additional Information
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