Agency Lead - Toronto

At Google, we organize and change around our users and customers. Google's Advertising Sales team embodies that pursuit: We're devoted to finding relevant solutions that meet our clients' changing advertising needs. In that regard, Advertising Sales does more than simply make money for our company. Our efforts focus on the ways that Google technology enables the world's biggest advertisers to enjoy immediate and accountable communication with the consumer.

The role: Agency Lead

As a Google Agency Lead, you'll collaborate closely with advertising agency partners, serve as their ambassador within Google, evangelize new Google products and technologies throughout the agency, identify sales and business-development opportunities, and develop and manage strong relationships with agency influencers and decision-makers.

Your objectives are to develop new business opportunities, increase existing business to maximize revenue, support Google's Sales team with research, market analysis, and other critical information, and be responsive to all agency needs. You'll also collaborate with Google's industry sales teams to exchange knowledge regarding client and agency needs in specific industry sectors.

Among your many attributes, you are persuasive, gregarious, 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. You're particularly adept at developing close, one-on-one relationships.

Responsibilities:

* Evangelize Google within the advertising agency community.

* Solidify executive relationships and drive revenue growth with targeted agencies.

* Devise partnership-building strategies.

* Develop best practices and benchmarking initiatives to optimize agency relationships.

Requirements:

* BA/BS degree preferred with a strong academic record.

* At least 8 years of experience in advertising agency, advertising sales, marketing, consulting, or media in a specific industry.

* Strong online sales and business-development experience.

* Substantial experience in advertising sales/marketing.

* Established relationships and presence within the agency marketplace.

* Excellent written and oral communication skills.

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