Area Director, Scandinavia

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

Sellforte is a business software that helps top management to do better business decisions by utilising their own commercial big data. Retail, Telecom, FMCG and Fast food companies to name few industries, can see their promotion effectiveness, offline & online marketing activities effect on total profit continuously in the Sellforte software. This approach gives new growth opportunities & savings worth of millions of € when not need to pay for the management consultants to do it as a project.


We are now looking for an Area Director, Scandinavia


located either in Stockholm or in Copenhagen, who will be responsible for establishing local businesses and developing new collaborative business relationships in Scandinavia.

 

If you’re a highly qualified expert with +10 years experience & proven track record from marketing, media or management consultancy and passionate about marketing effectiveness + managing and leading sales activities, we want to hear from you immediately.

 

Main responsibilities:


  • Establish country / multiple countries operations with entrepreneurial mindset

  • Unlock completely new customer relationships through your wide network and sales initiatives first by yourself and later through your team

  • Develop and manage relationships towards marketing industry leaders in Scandinavia

  • Consult top advertisers, media agencies and consultants on how to leverage Sellforte's software with the objective of growing the end customers profit in the long run

  • Educate marketers and agencies about detailed marketing effectiveness

  • Attend industry events and conferences to promote Sellforte, but also to generate new business leads and strategic relationships

  • Track revenue performance across the business portfolio, determine and initiate corrective measures where needed

  • Ownership over the commercial success, full accountability and strategic steering of short-term and long-term KPIs

  • Establish and exceed quarterly sales targets to grow represented brands’ presence in Scandinavia


Requirements:


  • Excellent business relationships towards C-level executives in marketing, media agencies and consultancy businesses

  • Master's degree, preferably in Business Administration, Economics, Social Sciences or similar

  • +10 years experience in marketing, B2B sales, management consultancy or media related business with strong foundation in technology or software and +3 years leadership experience

  • Strong communication, time management and organisation skills

  • Outstanding knowledge of trends, markets and opportunities

  • Ability to efficiently communicate internally and externally in fluent English both spoken and written

  • Detail-oriented, structured and able to successfully manage and execute multiple cross-functional projects

  • Positive and entrepreneurial attitude with a drive to go above and beyond for your customers and the business impact

  • Experience in Marketing mix modeling / ROMI modeling will be accounted as a big plus


We offer:


  • Supportive and motivated team that will help you to get local operations up and running

  • Interesting and highly challenging work

  • Flexible working hours. We are more interested on results than 9to5 job seekers

  • Competitive salary

  • Stock option plan

  • Lunch and sport benefits

  • Occupational health care

  • Support for professional growth, for example by company paid conferences, on-line courses, literature etc.

  • Skyrocketing international B2B SaaS company that combines high end domain expertise in retail, marketing and data science with tremendous learning curve opportunities in big data, marketing effectiveness and marketing analytics

  • Opportunity to build country operations around you and your style of leadership together with our management team's help


If these responsibilities and requirements match on your future vision, don't be a stranger and apply for the job before 26th of January, 2020. We will proceed in the process during application period, so don't let us wait for your application.


Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Equity package
Equity package

Want to be a partner? Look no further.

Free friday beers
Free friday beers

Friday is something special, let's enjoy a beer together.

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Working at
Sellforte

Sellforte is a team of 31 exceptionally smart and talented people. We are a unique combination of data scientists (e.g. PhDs in quantum physics), ex top tier management consultants with deep understanding of customers' business and problems, and software developers who kick ass. We provide an AI SaaS solution for marketers to measure and optimise all of their marketing activities. We are not a company that only shows cool marketing metrics or fancy dashboards – we deliver real impact in sales and profit through our AI-driven recommendation and decisioning platform. We already serve several large marketers in the Nordics, such as Elkjøp/Gigantti, Cloetta, Kotipizza, Tokmanni, Stockmann and Musti & Mirri to name a few. We have grown rapidly, even in the last few months when governments have implemented societal restrictions, and have an ambitious plan to continue doing so. For this journey, we are looking for people like you.

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