Sales Planner
About Acast
Since 2014, Acast has been building the world’s most valuable podcast marketplace, creating the technology that connects podcast creators, advertisers, and listeners. Its marketplace spans more than 140,000 podcasts, 3,300 advertisers, and one billion quarterly listens. Crucially, those listens are monetized wherever they happen—across any podcast app or listening platform.
About the role
This role sits within the UK Sales Planning Team and is essential to making sure that our advertising campaigns are accurate and deliverable. Sales Planning is an integral part of the Acast commercial team and a first step into a more sales centric career at Acast.
The roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to;
Media Plan Compilation
A core part of this role is compiling media plans to indicate the podcasts, the formats and scale of the campaign that the advertiser can expect for their budget
Podcaster Relationship management
You will be liaising with some of the UK’s largest Podcast teams to understand the talent’s affinity for working with brands, as well as their recording and release schedules
Client relationship management
You will also be liaising with agency and brand clients, offering the highest levels of customer service at all times
Internal relationship management
Each member of the Planning team will work in tandem with another seller but will also work with other teams across Acast from the Creative and Insights teams before a campaign books to the Campaign Management and Brand Partnerships teams after booking
Campaign Booking & set up
Utilising Acast’s own systems the successful candidate will be responsible for booking the campaign in line with approved contracts and available inventory to as well as ensuring that the correct adverts are targeted to the correct podcasts
Campaign Delivery & Reporting:
For ads campaigns, once the campaign is live you will be responsible for the day to day management and reporting on campaign performance, liaising with clients to ensure the campaign delivers in full
Participation in Creative Ideation sessions
Where relevant, you will also have the opportunity to be involved in creative ideation sessions to bring a brand’s campaign messaging to life through branded content created by our Podcasters
Who you are
You are a self-motivated, proactive, creative, desire to learn person who enjoys working as part of a team. You have the ability to prioritise effectively with consistently high attention to detail.
We think you are driven and passionate and great at Excel/ Gsheets. You are highly organised being able to manage multiple projects simultaneously. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills while retaining a cool head under time pressures.
Culture
Acast is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin or any of the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.
Culture is our number one priority as a business. We believe people come first, and we work every day to enable autonomy, continuous improvement and bring out the best in people. We’re global and have remote teams, so it’s even more important that we strive for an open, inclusive and caring environment where everyone feels visible and welcome.
We consider ourselves a modern organization driven by strong values to create the best, most fulfilling and nurturing culture.
We very much look forward to finding the next great person to join our cause!
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