Senior Director - Alliances Enterprise Sales Lead - Google

Merkle Group ,
London, Greater London
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Company Description DAN is headquartered in London and operates in 145 countries worldwide with more than 45,000 dedicated specialists. Dentsu Aegis Network is Innovating the Way Brands Are Built for its clients through its best-in-class expertise and capabilities in media, digital and creative communications services. Isobar is a global digital agency of 6,500 people across 45 markets, united by our mission to transform businesses, brands and people's lives with the creative use of digital. We deliver experience-led transformation, solving complex business challenges through our digital marketing & communications, ecosystems & commerce, products & services and transformation consulting offering. In the past two years, Isobar has been awarded over 450 times, including the Digital Craft Grand Prix at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2018, as well as multiple Clio, Webby, and Effie Awards. Merkle is a leading data-driven, technology-enabled, global performance marketing agency that specialises in the delivery of unique, personalised customer experiences across platforms and devices. We call it 'people-based' marketing, and with over 25 years' experience, we are proud to be recognised as a Global leader. Merkle's heritage in data, technology and analytics is the foundation for our understanding of consumer insights that drives our people-based marketing strategies. With our expertise, we can offer our clients content-driven, contextual and compelling customer journeys and experiences that drive business growth. With our Head Office in Columbia, Maryland and offices US wide, we continue to grow at a rapid rate across Europe and Asia. In 2016, the agency joined the Dentsu Aegis Network, one of the world's biggest Global media companies. Job Description This sales leadership role is part of a new team in a high growth and dynamic area of the Dentsu business. The successful individual will be accountable for driving incremental revenue from our partnership with Google across EMEA. Google are a $162B business with year on year growth of circa 20% and Dentsu have an ambition to be a driving force in their global growth. The Alliance Enterprise Sales Lead role is responsible for originating, responding to and leading efforts to close sales leads that support the Dentsu Alliance Growth team in EMEA. This will include owning the co-selling relationship with Dentsu's Alliance Partnerships, interfacing and contributing deeply with the sales and account teams, and driving sales and marketing programs directly with the Alliance Partnerships sales' teams. The role also requires focus on driving positive engagement and progress in the Dentsu relationship with Google. This role will be supported by the broader EMEA Alliances team (marketing and solutions) as well as their Global Alliance counterparts. Responsibilities include owning the co-selling relationship with Google, working with the Dentsu sales and account teams, and driving sales and marketing programs directly with the Alliance Partnerships local teams. This individual will be a highly motivated, quick learning, self-starter able to lead sales efforts that are not only focused on the capabilities in which they serve but also able to cross-sell within and between capabilities within the company. A dynamic personality with a drive to reach decision-makers is essential. Life as a Alliance Enterprise Sales Lead - Google at Merkle You will lead the formation and execution of a combined Google/Dentsu business growth strategy and promote the Dentsu partnership with Google through: * Building the Dentsu brand and network within the Google technology partnership teams * Refining communicating the Dentsu partnership with Google * Working through a partner maturity model to drive opportunities incremental in number and sophistication * Account planning, joint solution launches You will drive Alliance New Growth revenue for Dentsu with new and existing accounts in several ways: * Collaborate with the Alliance Partner team and Dentsu Client Partner teams in the identification and development of technology alliance opportunities in their priority accounts * Work with Dentsu business leads to map out * Drive and support New Logo Growth team pursuit efforts for RFPs * The qualification, upsell and cross-sell within and across our core capabilities * Leading renewal efforts if/when the opportunity needs extra sales expertise Additional Responsibilities include: * Meeting sales quota targets * Analyzing customer business goals, objectives, needs, process and existing infrastructure * Applying business outcome-based sales principles and demonstrates relevant and transferable company experience in developing sales strategy, opportunity briefs and sales plans to drive new logo and client solution * Ensuring availability of suitable collaterals for the offerings * Working closely with the operating companies to define and extend the core offerings * Establishing trust

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