Senior Advertising Sales Manager

    Taboola

    🇬🇧 London
    SaaS
    Hybrid
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    Work Type

    On-site

    Vertical

    SaaS

    Source

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    About this role

    Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company!  

    As a Senior Advertising Sales Manager on the UK Enterprise Advertiser team in our London Office, you’ll play a vital role in expanding our UK footprint and bringing in new, high-profile enterprise clients.

    Joining a motivated, high-performing team that continues to deliver impressive growth, you will identify, engage, and cement strategic relationships across key account teams and brands within WPP. You will bring a consultative approach to understand client objectives, present persuasively to senior stakeholders, and secure high-impact campaign bookings that drive sustained commercial success.

    To thrive in this role, you'll need:

    • 5+ years of strong advertising sales experience focussed on direct marketers, brands and agencies. Knowledge of the media agency/brand landscape is essential for this role.
    • WPP experience & active WPP relationships
    • Proven track record of identifying opportunities and delivering results with an ability to successfully close negotiations with senior decision makers
    • A determined sales and networking drive with an ability to build long lasting strategic relationships and grow a book of business
    • Strong analytical skills to understand a client challenge, reframe and reposition with a clear product led solution.
    • Familiarity, knowledge and existing agency/client contacts across the industry essential, the ideal focus being UK based WPP accounts 
    • Exceptional communication skills - simply comfortable in all scenarios with a polish to represent Taboola at the hig

    Selling Motion

    Sales Cycle

    Enterprise

    6–18 month cycles, complex multi-stakeholder deals

    Buyer Persona

    C-Suite

    Selling to executive decision-makers

    Requirements at a Glance

    Bachelor's Degree·Required
    Media/AdTech·Industry experience

    Typical Day — Sales Manager

    Executive deal support3–5/week
    Forecast & commit2×/week
    Strategic deal coaching3–5/week

    Estimates based on role type and selling motion — actual may vary by company.

    Role Signals

    Green Flags

    ✓
    Equity/Stock Options

    Ownership stake offered

    SaaS — Interview Intel

    Typical Sales Cycle

    30–90 days (SMB) · 3–9 months (Mid-Market) · 6–18 months (Enterprise)

    Common Buyer Objections

    • "We're locked into a contract with [competitor]"
    • "We built something in-house already"
    • "We don't have budget until next quarter"
    • "Our team won't adopt another tool"

    Key Industry Metrics

    ARR / MRRNet Revenue Retention (NRR)CAC Payback PeriodLogo Churn vs Revenue ChurnACV (Avg Contract Value)Magic Number

    Hot Topics to Reference

    • • AI-native product disruption
    • • PLG vs sales-led motion debate
    • • Vertical SaaS consolidation
    • • Usage-based pricing models

    Use these insights to speak the buyer's language in interviews.

    Tags

    Advertising Sales
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    How do you structure onboarding for new hires?

    Template question
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    Prepare metrics: quota attainment %, average deal size, win rate
    Practice a 2-minute product demo pitch for a mock discovery call
    Review the job description and map your experience to each requirement
    Role Insights

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