Sales Manager
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About the Position
Why Join DAZN?
Joining DAZN in London means working at a global sports streaming business from one of the UK’s fastest-growing digital hubs. You’ll collaborate with smart, passionate people, move quickly, and help connect millions of fans to the sports they love. If you’re excited by working with a business growing at scale and the pace of live sport, DAZN is a great place to grow your career.
The Role
Join DAZN's Commercial team and play a key role in driving advertising and sponsorship revenue across one of the world's most exciting sports media businesses. You'll own relationships with agencies and brands, develop strategic account plans, and create integrated commercial solutions that deliver against ambitious sales targets. Working cross-functionally with teams across the business, you'll identify new opportunities, build bespoke pitches and market insights, manage the sales pipeline from prospecting to close, and represent DAZN with clients and at key industry events.
Responsibilities
- Drive advertising and sponsorship revenue against quarterly and annual sales targets
- Own agency & brand relationships as the primary contact; keep the pipeline moving from prospecting to close
- Develop strategic account plans to grow existing business and unlock new opportunities
- Design and pitch integrated solutions (OTT/Linear, sponsorships, branded content, social, programmatic) with cross-functional partners
- Drive operational excellence with disciplined CRM, reliable forecasting, and proactive issue resolutions with partner teams
- Be a first point of contact for any challenges, negotiations, or objections
- Develop your own sales collateral and bespoke market intelligence, win/loss learnings, and category playbooks in partnership with cross-functional teams
- Represent the company at industry events, client meetings, and networking opportunities
Requirements
- 2-3 years' experience in a commercial or sales-oriented environment
- Experience in TV/OTT/digital media sales
- Customer-centric approach to sales
- Hunger for closing new business
- Operational discipline in pipeline and forecast management
- Strong objection handling skills
- A very proactive mindset and approach to sales
- An all-around good human
We Offer
Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family-friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.
About the Company
At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers, and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.
As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionize the industry and we're not going to stop.
DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:
- Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.
- Prioritizing what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.
- Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.
At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities.
If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.
Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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Sports Entertainment
About the Company DAZN is a global company dedicated to transforming the way the world consumes sports entertainment. They focus on bringing fans closer to their passion through the best technologies available. The company operates as a global community where every opinion and idea can make a difference, emphasizing team spirit and collective ambition to achieve what others might consider impossible. Products, Services & Tech Stack Core Solutions Sports Streaming: DAZN provides streaming services for various sports events, bringing them directly to fans. Technologies & Frameworks Platforms: The company utilizes various platforms to deliver its services, although specific platforms are not detailed in the provided information. Project Scope & Target Clients Client Base Global Sports Fans: DAZN serves a wide range of sports fans globally, providing them with access to live sports events. Engineering Scale Global Operations: DAZN operates on a global scale, with teams and projects spanning multiple countries including the United Kingdom, India, Japan, Germany, the United States, Italy, Spain, Israel, and more. The engineering projects vary in scope and complexity, reflecting the company's global presence and diverse operational needs.