Key Account Manager - 12-Month Contract

Are you ready to be a big part of something big? 

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. 

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership. 

Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it? 

This is a great opportunity for a proactive and energetic Key Account Manager to join carsales mediahouse. Put simply, the carsales mediahouse team represent “anything in the mobility sector" along with aftersales, finance, insurance, retail and FMCG clients who are wanting to reach a rich Australian audience. We are evolving our offering to deliver on full funnel ambitions. We are evolving our targeting from cookies to people. We are evolving from a “car portal” to a true marketing partner regardless of your needs.

You will be building relationships with our current clients as well as developing and fostering relationships with new contacts. If you are results driven, we need you to come in and take responsibility for growing business across carsales mediahouse. You’ll be growing revenue through business development, managing pipelines, account management and development.

What’s on offer: 

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world. 
• We’re a certified Great Place to Work, Family Friendly Workplace and WGEA Employer of Choice. 
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team you’ll actually have face time with. 
• 22 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender transition leave.

What’ll you’ll be doing

• Understand and share expertise in managing relationships with our key media agencies but also going out and building relationships with new agencies and clients directly.
• You will be the key point of contact for any marketing and advertising needs. You will be meeting with clients to discuss new opportunities, products, marketing and advertising.
• Develop and support solutions that deliver growth of revenue across the carsales mediahouse suite. You will be generating and cultivating new business leads and opportunities. You’ll build and manage pipelines for potential business prospects and develop a clear plan for continuous and sustainable growth.
• Demonstrate understanding, motivations and expertise in gathering data, insights, results and anything else you need to create engaging and moving presentations to be delivered to prospective and current clients.
• Coordinate all elements of campaigns to ensure that every client’s campaign is delivered to the best of its ability and that all advertiser expectations are met.

What we’re looking for?

• Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously).
• You’ll come with a track record achieving sales targets and a strong understanding of Digital, Agency and/or Media. An interest or experience in a similar industry would be great but isn’t a must have.
• Experience in media or automotive, finance & insurance sales would be highly regarded. 
• A confident communicator who can build sustainable relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Developed relationships with top tier media agencies will be highly sought after.
• An articulate communicator who can create and deliver engaging and influential presentations to variety of audiences on all levels.

A few other things we want to let you know about... 

• carsales is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support. 
• We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask. 
• We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant. 
• Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis. 

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.