Working at Adwanted UK
We are the UK media industry's number one destination for media data, planning tools, market insight, news and conferences. Our client base covers the media and advertising industry from media owners and media agencies to TV tech companies and creative agencies.
We are an established but forward thinking company that believes in a welcoming, fun, relaxed working environment. Our emphasis is on teamwork, development, respect and great customer service. Most jobs are advertised internally first and we have a very high staff retention rate.
We like people who continue to learn, so whether you prefer traditional courses, online learning or any other means, Adwanted UK will support your advancement.
We are located on St Martins Lane, in Covent Garden, perfectly positioned for great cafes, pubs, restaurants and shops with excellent transport links. If you prefer to cycle, there's room for your bike.
Our profitable business is well-established but privately owned, and highly respected with the media industry. Join us to be part of the continuing journey!
We offer
Current positions
Strategic Account Manager
Hybrid/Flexible Working – 3 days per week in the office in St Martin's Lane, London
Application to: jobs@uk.adwanted.com
Job Overview
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Strategic Account Manager to work across our audio products. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing strong relationships with clients at a senior level, understanding their business needs, and identifying opportunities to expand our products and services within their organisations. The Strategic Account Manager will serve as the primary point of contact for key accounts, ensuring high customer satisfaction and retention.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain relationships with key clients.
- Develop and maintain an understanding of the key users and functionality of our audio products
- Understand the business goals and needs of each client and work collaboratively to ensure they are getting the most from our audio products
- Identify opportunities for upselling, cross-selling, and introducing new products/services
- Monitor system usage, track key metrics, and provide regular reports to be used internally
- Manage annual rate increases and any related negotiations
- Monitor client spend for our transactional revenue products and adjust commercial strategies when needed
- Help to set revenue targets at client and product level
- Refine the ratecards for our transactional revenue products
- Stay up-to-date on industry trends, competitor activities, and market developments to provide insights and recommendations
- Proactively address any customer issues or escalations to ensure high customer satisfaction and retention rates
- Regularly attend industry events to cultivate strong relationships with both current and prospective clients
- Work closely with the CS Manager to gain an understanding of the day-to-day helpdesk operations and work to address any client pain points
Qualifications & Experience:
- Proven experience in strategic account management, business development, or sales roles in the advertising industry. Experience in an agency or ad tech environment preferred. Experience in the audio industry preferred
- Friendly and outgoing with strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
- Excellent relationship-building and customer service abilities
- Proven ability to build trusted client relationships with stakeholders at all levels within an organisation
- Negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to analyse data, identify trends, and develop actionable insights
- Ability to be flexible by adapting quickly to changing priorities, new approaches and methods
- Knowledge of industry trends, market dynamics, and competitive landscape
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
What we Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- A collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- The chance to work on ground breaking projects in the Audio advertising industry
Why Join Us?
At Adwanted UK, we value a welcoming, fun, relaxed working environment. Our emphasis is on teamwork, development, respect, and great customer service. We like people who continue to learn, so whether you prefer traditional courses, online learning, or any other means, Adwanted will support your advancement.
We are located on St. Martin’s Lane, in Covent Garden, perfectly positioned for great cafes, pubs, restaurants and shops with excellent transport links. If you prefer to cycle, there's room for your bike.
Equal opportunity is our keystone, and we believe that our differences are our strength! We are committed to cultural, ethnic, and social diversity within our teams, believing that everyone deserves fair treatment and equal opportunities, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, origin, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, age or disability.
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES
Senior Developer - Audio
Hybrid/Flexible Working – 3 days per week in the office in St Martin's Lane, London (some flexibiliy may be possible}
Application to: jobs@uk.adwanted.com
Role
At Adwanted UK, senior developers have primarily individual contributor roles with an additional element of technical leadership. As a Senior Developer — Audio, you contribute towards the team’s deliveries as an experienced software developer and also enhance and amplify the whole team’s performance and effectiveness through your mentorship, influence, and guidance.
Responsibilities
You work closely with product owners, project managers and the development team to deliver valuable enhancements and new features to Adwanted’s suite of Audio products and services.
You are an individual contributor and, as a senior team member, you also guide and mentor other members of the team. You take an active role in prioritising and right-sizing work items, and you help foster a culture of continuous improvement.
As a technology enthusiast, you keep well-informed about technology trends in the media and ad-tech industry. Strategic thinking is important in your role, where you focus on building software that meets business objectives and critically evaluate technologies before adopting them.
The role includes:
Individual confributions as a software developer:
- Designing software solutions
- Implementing solutions using PHP, SQL and JavaScript
- Implementing automated tests
- Writing documentation
Technical oversight and guidance
- Mentoring other developers
- Reviewing code changes
- Improving the team's development process
Key Skills
- PHP (expert level)
- Object-oriented, domain-driven design
- Automated testing
- Cloud-native architecture
- SQL (T-SQL, MySQL) and RDBMS scheme design
- JavaScript (ES2015+)
- Git
- Docker
- CV/CD pipelines
- Agile/interactive development processes
- Ability to excel in distributed, remote-first team
- Excellent communication, written and verbal, including with client stakeholders
Experience
- Relevant degree or equivalent commercial experience
- Maintained and developed business-critical software-as-a-service (SaaS) sytems
- Thrived in a professional services team, building custokmer solutions for business clients
- 5+ years' experience developing database-backed web applications, working across the whole technology stack
- Demonstrated ability to align technical solutions with business objectives and commercial strategies
What we Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- A collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- The chance to work on ground breaking projects in the Audio advertising industry
Why Join Us?
At Adwanted UK, we value a welcoming, fun, relaxed working environment. Our emphasis is on teamwork, development, respect, and great customer service. We like people who continue to learn, so whether you prefer traditional courses, online learning, or any other means, Adwanted will support your advancement.
We are located on St. Martin’s Lane, in Covent Garden, perfectly positioned for great cafes, pubs, restaurants and shops with excellent transport links. If you prefer to cycle, there's room for your bike.
Equal opportunity is our keystone, and we believe that our differences are our strength! We are committed to cultural, ethnic, and social diversity within our teams, believing that everyone deserves fair treatment and equal opportunities, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, origin, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, age or disability.
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES
Account Manager, Adwanted Events
Hybrid/Flexible Working – 3 days per week in the office in St Martin's Lane, London
Application to: jobs@uk.adwanted.com
About Us
Adwanted Events connects the most influential minds in media and advertising from all corners of the ecosystem through our premium business conferences, driven by our core values of trust, teamwork and tenacity.
Over the past six years, we have grown into the market leading events and publishing division serving the UK media industry, with global extensions through our offices in France and the US, plus our global events.
Our portfolio of media and TV events include flagship conferences: Future of TV Advertising Global, The Future of Brands, Connected TV World Summit and The Future of Media.
Adwanted Events are also proud to be the powerhouse behind industry revered events like The Year Ahead, The Future of TV Advertising Sydney, The Future of Audio & Entertainment, The Future of TV Advertising Canada and The Media Leader Awards.
Adwanted's highly regarded publication The Media Leader amplifies the events and the event partners by providing authoritative and thought-provoking news and opinion to readers across the 20,000-strong Adwanted Network and beyond. Both provide further promotional opportunities too, from advertising and advertorial to webinars to roundtables.
As part of the Adwanted Group – the leading provider of media tech, data and thought-leadership – we have decades of experience in every aspect of media we are connected to the key players and deliver unparalleled reach and influence across the industry and beyond.
The Role
We are looking for a salesperson who embodies our values of tenacity, trust and teamwork, to join our sales team to help manage the growing workload and pool of clients who now partner with us across a number of our events and content platforms.
You will play a vital role in driving revenue growth by developing and executing strategic sales initiatives across all events and The Media Leader’s content solutions.
Role and Responsibilities
- Business Development: Identify and pursue new business opportunities by prospecting potential clients and advertisers.
- Sales Strategy: Devise and implement effective sales strategies, to drive revenue and achieve sales targets.
- Client Relationship Management: Cultivate strong, long-lasting relationships with clients, understanding their unique advertising needs and providing tailored solutions to meet their objectives.
- Customized Advertising Solutions: Collaborate with clients to create customized advertising and sponsorship packages that align with their marketing goals and deliver impactful results.
- Market Research: Stay updated on industry trends, competitor activities, and changes in the media landscape to identify new opportunities and stay ahead of the competition.
- Sales Presentations: Prepare and deliver compelling sales presentations to prospective clients, showcasing the value and benefits of partnering with us and sponsoring our events
- Negotiation and Contracting: Handle negotiations with clients to ensure mutually beneficial agreements are reached and contracts are closed promptly.
- Sales Reporting: Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of sales activities, performance metrics, and client interactions using CRM tools.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with internal teams, including editorial, marketing and content creation, to ensure seamless execution of client campaigns and content solutions.
- Customer Feedback: Gather feedback from clients and advertisers to improve existing products and services, as well as identify new opportunities for innovation.
Requirements
- Proven Sales Experience: Up to 3 years of successful experience in events or media sales with a track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets.
- Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with the advertising industry, digital media, and emerging trends in content marketing and sponsorships.
- Strong Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas and concepts clearly and persuasively.
- Relationship Building: Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong, positive relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Results-Oriented: Goal-driven, self-motivated, and capable of working independently to achieve sales targets.
- Adaptability: Able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt quickly to changing market conditions.
- Tech-savvy: Proficient in using Hubspot, Asana tools, presentation software, and other relevant sales and productivity software, would be beneficial
This Account Manager position offers an exciting opportunity to work in a market leading media company and contribute to the success of top-tier brands through innovative advertising and content solutions. If you are a highly motivated and results-driven individual with a passion for media sales, we would love you to join our dynamic team and make a significant impact on the industry's landscape.
Why Join Us?
At Adwanted UK, we value a welcoming, fun, relaxed working environment. Our emphasis is on teamwork, development, respect, and great customer service. We like people who continue to learn, so whether you prefer traditional courses, online learning, or any other means, Adwanted will support your advancement.
We are located on St. Martin’s Lane, in Covent Garden, perfectly positioned for great cafes, pubs, restaurants and shops with excellent transport links. If you prefer to cycle, there's room for your bike. Equal opportunity is our keystone, and we believe that our differences are our strength! We are committed to cultural, ethnic, and social diversity within our teams, believing that everyone deserves fair treatment and equal opportunities, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, origin, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, age or disability.