Sales Executive

Salary: From £29,000, plus a competitive bonus

Location: Fantastic Leeds city centre office

Work model: Office based

Holiday: 28 days, plus bank holidays and your birthday

Join our client services team

If you’re in sales and passionate about marketing, but you want a change from vanity metrics and traditional agencies, then this might be the role for you…

You Platforms is more than an agency. We own our consumer brands, including Leeds-List, Yorkshire-List and Manchester-List. This means we have owned audiences, which gives us access to incredible data science and allows us to intelligently create multi-channel campaigns for our clients that make our readers want to take action.

We create awesome native advertising campaigns for our clients. We work with them to understand their needs and use our audience insights to lead their strategy. The result? Readers see campaigns that are relevant and tailored to them. And clients see amazing results.

About the role:

We’re hiring ambitious sales professionals who care about offering value for our clients. This is a pure sales role for someone with a background in sales, sponsorship or business development.

We need someone with a marketing background – either a degree or real-world experience so that you can apply and explain marketing concepts.

You’ll join an ambitious and small, tight-knit team who all muck in and share in our success.

What you'll be doing:

  • Identifying opportunities for us to do business
  • Understanding sector- and business-specific needs and pains
  • Performing cold outreach over the phone, email and LinkedIn
  • Setting and attending meetings
  • Discovering client requirements
  • Becoming a product expert and conveying the value of our solutions to prospective clients
  • Creating pitch decks and presenting solutions
  • Ensuring the CRM is up to date
  • Conveying the value of our solutions
  • Building your professional network with decision makers and deal influencers
Isaac playing a game of scrabble with the team

Our application process:

  • Apply via linked in or by CV to jobs [at] youplatforms.com
  • Call 0113 3200710 and ask for the hiring manager if you’d like to know more
  • We’ll be asking you to demonstrate your skills and experience in sales and marketing during the application process
  • If you have been closing deals, we’ll want to see your track record
  • We’ll want to hear and see you in action – we’ll give you a pitch deck before we meet and see how you bring it to life when we meet

Experience required:

At least 18 months work experience in sales, business development or sponsorship

Experience in media sales is a strong advantage but not essential

A degree in marketing or work experience in a marketing or media role

Working knowledge of Hubspot CRM, or are willing to learn

Send your CV to jobs@youplatforms.com