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Ads Sales Specialist (関西エリア)

RemoteJapan only
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Role
Sales
Employment
Full-time
Salary not disclosed
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No BS summary

Sales specialist for Mercari's new advertising business, focusing on impression ad sales within the Mercari app. Requires experience in digital advertising, specifically ad agency sales, partner sales, account management, product specialist, or evangelist roles. Must be proficient in Japanese and have independent-level English.

Core skills

digital advertisingad sales

Required skills

salesaccount managementpartner salesproduct specialistevangelist

Optional skills

team leadteam managementexperience with own media with ad platformnumerical and fact-based thinking and proposalenjoying changes and speed in IT industry/startups/ventures

Required languages

Japanese C1English B2

What you'll do

  • Acquisition of new ad agencies and relationship building
  • Upselling proposals to existing ad agencies and relationship building
  • Sales performance management to achieve targets
  • Visualizing customer needs, prioritizing them, and providing feedback to the product and engineering teams to aim for PMF
  • Creating group synergy through collaboration with other business sales teams in the Mercari Group (Mercari Shops, MercPay, etc.)
  • Leading the sales of impression ad slots within the Mercari app to build a new revenue base through advertising
  • Building ad operation know-how primarily with ad agencies while understanding Mercari's ad products and considering overall product optimization to achieve maximum ad performance
  • Providing feedback to product and engineering teams for overall product optimization
  • Challenging in a global environment with many opportunities for work in English

What they require

  • Experience in establishing and demonstrating reproducible results through one's own know-how
  • Experience in smooth coordination and negotiation with internal and external stakeholders, achieving high sales performance
  • Experience in ad agency sales
  • Experience in partner sales
  • Experience as an account manager
  • Experience as a product specialist
  • Experience as an evangelist
  • Ability to understand and embody the mission and values of the Mercari Group
  • Willingness to accept potential future relocation to other areas (e.g., Tokyo headquarters)
  • Ability to work from home as the primary base (as there is no office in the Kansai area, it is primarily full remote. Business trips to client sites or to the Tokyo headquarters may be required as needed.)

Benefits

  • Flex-time system (no core hours)
  • Full remote work possible from home (Kansai area)
  • Opportunity to challenge new businesses with discretion
  • Leverage points through cooperation with existing businesses in the Mercari Group
  • Opportunity to drive business with teams and members within the Mercari Group on a larger scale
  • Opportunity to integrate knowledge, experience, and opinions from members with diverse backgrounds to maximize results
  • Opportunity to create unique synergies within Mercari Group
  • Opportunity to carve out various opportunities based on one's own will
  • Opportunity to work in a global environment with many opportunities for work in English

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