Director of Strategic Accounts

Sales Chicago, Illinois


Description

Everyday Health is a leading provider of digital health and wellness solutions.  What to Expect, BabyCenter and Mom 2.0 are the world’s best known pregnancy and parenting brands, is looking for a dynamic Director, Strategic Accounts to join our growing team.  The ideal candidate will have revenue responsibility and will help cultivate our strategic sales approach in order to maximize sales revenue as well as future growth. It is essential that the candidate has a proven track record in digital advertising sales and selling across digital platforms. If you’re the kind of person that thrives in a fast-paced, yet collaborative environment where you can improve the health and happiness of millions of women around the world, this job is for you!
 
What You’ll Do
  • Leverage What To Expect’s assets and suite of solutions to drive revenue growth with new and existing accounts.
  • Prospecting, lead-generation and development of new accounts to establish What to Expect as a strategic partner.
  • Build a strategic plan for your clients and ad agencies that focuses on customer understanding, relationship building and driving revenue.
  • Collaborate within the greater sales organization; client services, ad operations, and other internal teams to create strategic customer solutions that drive revenue.
  • Develop strategies to identify, engage and close new business.
 
What You’ll Bring
  • 5+ years digital sales experience.
  • BA/BS degree
  • Strong revenue driving track record
  • Demonstrate experience meeting and exceeding revenue goals.
  • Solution oriented, highly motivated and proactive self-starter who works well as both team member and an individual contributor
  • Deep understanding of the media business
  • The ability to execute programs and activations at the highest level
  • Understand business trends and advancements outside of What to Expect
  • Analytical thinker with ideal experience in both Web Analytics (Google Analytics or Omniture) and Syndicated tools (ComScore, Nielsen, MRI etc.)
  • Must be a self-starter, articulate and possess excellent presentation, phone, and written communication skills.
  • Expertise in the process required to oversee digital advertising campaigns.
  • Proven success working with cross-functional teams and building strong relationships internally and externally.
  • Dynamic, with a passion for health, wellness and parenting.
Life at Everyday Health
At Everyday Health Group, a division of Ziff Davis, we work in a culture of collaboration and welcome those who desire to join our growing global community. We believe in careers versus jobs and people versus employees. We seek enthusiastic individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit looking for an environment that rewards your best work.

Everyday Health Group (EHG) is a recognized leader in patient and provider education attracting an engaged audience of over 70 million health consumers and over 800,000 U.S. practicing physicians and clinicians to its premier health and wellness websites. Healthcare professionals and consumers are empowered with trusted content and services through the Everyday Health Group’s flagship brands including Everyday Health®, What to Expect®, Baby Center, MedPage Today®, Health eCareers®, PRIME® Education, Castle Connolly Top Doctors® and our exclusive partnership with MayoClinic.org®.

Everyday Health offers competitive salaries in addition to robust health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits, Flexible Spending accounts, 401(k) with company match, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Pregnancy and Parental leave, Family Planning Support via Maven, Flexible Time Off, Volunteer Time Off, Fitness Reimbursement as well as employee-focused engagement and education programs, including Employee Resource Groups and company-sponsored events. If you’re seeking a dynamic, flexible work environment where you can see the direct impact of your performance, then Everyday Health is the place for you. Everyday Health Group has employees located in 41 states as well as offices in NYC, Asheville, Boston, London, England and Mumbai, India.

Everyday Health Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees.