Account Manager, Vantage, Advanced Advertising

Job Description

Paramount (NASDAQ: PARA; PARAA) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic studios, networks and streaming services, its portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. The company delivers the largest share of the US television audience and boasts one of the industry's most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, Paramount provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions.

Paramount's Vantage is the leading advanced advertising platform in the industry, bringing audience-based solutions to clients with activations that span our massive linear, digital, and addressable TV portfolio, and features premium content from brands including CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, Paramount+, and Pluto TV, among others.

We are looking for an Account Manager to join our team! You will work with a designated sales team to ensure flawless advanced advertising campaign planning and execution as well as provide efficient client service support for assigned advertisers and agencies. In this role, you will aid in maintaining, building and exceeding advanced advertising revenue goals for the Paramount Vantage sales team and be one of the primary points of contact for client inquiries and requests which includes: preparing proposals, client presentations and communicating regular campaign performance. Successful candidates will demonstrate an ability to work collaboratively across the Paramount sales organization to achieve results and promote greater adoption of advanced advertising industry-wide.
Overview and Responsibilities:
• Campaign management of a list focusing on designated agency holding companies
• Partner with sales to secure strategic level relationships with client contacts within the account
• Build customized presentations for clients, providing most effective information to drive budgets
• Research target accounts & build strategy to break new business and increase share
• Assist Account Executives/Directors in negotiations
• Serving as a subject matter expert in the field of advanced advertising for both internal and external conversations
• Collaborating with product, planning, and data teams within the Vantage organization to creatively and nimbly meet the varied needs of clients
• Evangelizing Vantage's unique positioning within the marketplace
• Staying ahead of the curve on marketplace trends relating to their clients as well as the advanced advertising industry

Basic Qualifications:
• Minimum 3+ years in media sales or comparable; advanced advertising experience a plus
• BS/BA degree or equivalent training and experience

Additional Qualifications:
• Strong desire to drive forward an established, but rapidly growing, field within the advertising industry
• Highly skilled in PowerPoint development (able to build slides and story line)
• Fluent in Excel and data manipulation
• Strong organization skills and detail oriented to manage multiple account challenges at once
• Willingness to be adaptive and open-minded as priorities can change quickly
• Extreme attention to detail and follow-up
• A consultative and curiosity-driven approach with colleagues and clients

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d9x5y7-18-116-62-45-42 in your application.