The Local Digital Account Director/Subject Matter Expert will be responsible for enabling digital revenue growth across NBCUniversal digital platforms through the development and sale of advertising solutions to clients. The Account Director will develop a solid understanding of NBCUniversal ad products across Peacock, NBCU Network and Cable Assets, Local Owned Station Sites and Sports which includes Regional Sports Nets, NFL, NBA, Olympics, World Cup. Account Director will have exemplary consultative selling skills to be able to best develop solutions to meet client needs and close deals – which they will deploy by partnering with assigned local markets to find new business, close revenue, build relationships that result in high client return rates, and ensure digital product understanding across clients and internal teams’.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Digital Sales Leadership

• Work hand-in-hand with assigned local market (NBC/Telemundo) sales leadership and AEs to drive revenue; including but not limited to joining key client meetings, leadership meetings, and driving digital conversations with AE’s
• Evaluate the performance of advertising sales programs against desired outcomes
• Support AE’s and BD team on programmatic opportunities
• Understand and champion all aspect of digital products and sales (inc research/attribution)

Communication

• Internally serve as subject matter expert and develop tools and messaging to all internal parties
• Communicate and collaborate internally with other departments including Strategy, Pricing & Planning, Marketing, Research, Marketing and Client Solutions

Additional Responsibilities

• Provide input on digital sales training curriculum for division
• Provide feedback on sales go-to-market materials
• Work with SVP on ad-hoc projects/analysis