Responsibilities

• Generate new business with leading brands and agencies across sneakers, fashion and street culture.
• Use your existing industry relationships to open doors and create new opportunities.
• Proactively reach out to new prospects and build relationships with the right people.
• Build and manage a strong pipeline through outreach, meetings, networking and industry events.
• Understand what prospective partners are trying to achieve and where The Sole Supplier can help.
• Manage opportunities from the first conversation through to proposal, pitch, negotiation and close.
• Respond to inbound briefs alongside generating your own new business.
• Work closely with our Creative team to put together strong responses to briefs and develop ideas for partners.
• Pitch The Sole Supplier, our audience and our ideas confidently to prospective partners.
• Build long term relationships with partners and look for opportunities to grow them over time.

Requirements

• A strong track record in media sales.
• An established network of relationships across relevant brands, media agencies and PR agencies
• A proven ability to turn relationships and outreach into meetings, opportunities and revenue.
• A proactive approach to new business, with the confidence to reach out, open doors and create your own opportunities.
• Experience selling media, content, creative campaigns or brand partnerships.
• Experience managing the sales process from first conversation through to pitch, negotiation and close.
• Strong presentation and pitching skills.
• Good commercial awareness and an understanding of what brands and agencies need from their media partners.
• A strong understanding of sneakers, fashion, street culture and the wider world our audience is part of.

Benefits

• 36 days annual leave including UK Bank Holidays
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working model
• Early finish Fridays
• Birthday day off plus a £100 gift voucher
• Remote working policy - up to 4 x weeks per year
• "Purple Lobster" employee recognition award - £250 monthly prize
• 3 Duvet Days per year
• Enhanced parental leave - 6 months full-pay maternity, 10 weeks full-pay paternity
• Free therapy and mental health support through Spill
• Monthly wellbeing budget for gym, fitness, or self-care