Key Account Manager

Bauer Media Group Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in Peterborough is seeking a Digital Media Sales Executive to maximize advertising revenues from car manufacturers and related clients. The role involves achieving revenue targets, growing customer spend, and generating new business from lapsed advertisers. Ideal candidates should have proven success in digital media sales, an understanding of the UK car market, and the ability to build strong agency relationships. Competitive benefits, including flexible working and 28 days holiday are offered.

Benefits

28 days holiday

Access to Bauer Academy training

Enhanced parental leave pay

Flexible working

Additional benefits

Qualifications

• Proven success in digital media sales required.
• Strong knowledge of the UK car market dynamics essential.
• Ability to maintain relationships at various agency levels needed.

Responsibilities

• Achieve revenue and yield targets.
• Grow customer spends with creative ideas.
• Generate business from lapsed advertisers.

Skills

Digital media sales success

Knowledge of UK car market dynamics

Ability to build agency relationships

Skilled negotiator

Data-driven approach

Strategic mindset

Job description

In this role, you will maximise advertising revenues from car manufacturers and car related product and service customers through their associated agencies. With proven digital media sales success, this role will be a mix of ensuring that Bauer Publishing are on plan for all agencies with OEM customers, deliver pro‑active opportunities to relevant agencies and provide market leading brief responses to increase the number that Bauer win. They will also become automotive market expert, making them the agency’s ‘go to’ person to help keep them abreast of and understand the intricacies of the UK new car market. This will also, through working with editorial and research, unlock new opportunities to pitch agencies.

Key Responsibilities

• Achieve revenue and yield targets.
• Grow existing customer spends through new creative ideas and close collaboration with the OEM Relationship Director, editorial teams, and research teams.
• Generate new business from lapsed automotive advertisers and new entrants into the market.
• Collaborate with appropriate teams to develop market leading creative solutions for agencies and their customers.
• Have an in-depth understanding of the broader media marketplace with the ability to construct channel‑based arguments to drive share.
• Contribute to planning and product meetings to present agency feedback and assist new product development.
• Customer centric, passionate about positively impacting your customer’s business and delivering market leading service.
• Develop close links with relevant commercial teams (partnerships, agency and brand teams) to ensure open channels of communication and true collaboration at all times.
• Accurate personal forecasting of revenue for the designated category.
• Maintain accurate customer records using internal CRM system.
• Attendance and participation in all regular sales, strategy and status meetings, including individual 1‑2‑1’s, as well as wider commercial market and brand meetings where required.

What you’ll bring

• Proven success in digital media sales
• Strong knowledge of UK car market dynamics
• Ability to build and maintain agency relationships at all levels
• Skilled negotiator balancing agency, customer, and Bauer priorities
• Data‑driven approach to identifying opportunities and building credibility
• Strategic mindset to drive revenue growth and long‑term partnerships

Closing Date

Monday 5th January

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family‑owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long‑term, with a consumer‑first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people’s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

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