LinkedIn Hiring for Global Client Executive, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full Time

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

We are looking for a Global Client Executive to join our Global Strategic Accounts (GSA) Marketing Solutions team in showcasing LinkedIn as the premier place for brands to market to the world’s professionals. You will be responsible for developing and delivering a sales strategy while motivating a cross functional team that will assist in hitting growth targets by providing digital marketing strategy to our largest, most strategic and sophisticated customers, in order to help them reach their business and marketing objectives.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with multiple business units and executive level stakeholders (CMOs, CROs, CHROs and other CXOs) within our largest global technology clients and their marketing and media agency partners
• Conceive, pitch and close creative and effective full funnel marketing solutions
• Ability to closely monitor and on auction-based digital media campaigns
• Proactively provide intelligent client and industry-specific research, trends and analytics
• Interact and collaborate across our global footprint of offices and cross functional partners
• Project manage your book of business’s digital advertising ecosystem – client, media agency, content agency, tech integration partners etc
• and forecast sales activity
• Grow the revenue from the named accounts by identifying and closing new multi-million-dollar transformational deals.
• Leverage executive relationships and executive sponsors to deepen LinkedIn’s relationships with clients.
• Represent both market trends and client need to the Executive and the Product teams to ensure we are both serving current needs well and evolving our portfolio to identify future client needs.
• Understand where global opportunity exists within each account across all LI Marketing Solutions
• Some regional travel as required (regional & global)

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in advertising, sales, marketing, consulting, or media

Preferred Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience
•  2+ years of auction based or programmatic campaign management and optimization experience (i.e. Google Adwords, SEO/PPC, ad exchange/trading desks)
• Demonstrated analytical background and experience with statistical analysis, return on investment modeling, and advertising / media analytics
• Ability to think strategically with a proven track record of achieving results by connecting a customer’s pressures with data-driven products and solutions.
• Demonstrated understanding of internet advertising technology and marketing automation
• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritise tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision
• Ability to work independently and collaborate cross-functionally
• Demonstrated commitment to understanding and prioritising the needs of the customer

Suggested Skills

• Strategic problem solving
• Solution selling
• multi-level relationship building
• data-driven storytelling
• Business and commercial acumen

Additional Information

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