Sales Manager, Sponsorship

Sales Manager, Sponsorship & Advertising

We are looking for our next Sales Manager, Sponsorship & Advertising to work as part of our New Zealand team.

In this role, you will be responsible for advertising and sponsorship sales for our New Zealand media portfolio across Thomson Reuters' ANZ business. This includes and is not limited to renewal, upselling, and cross-selling of existing customer accounts; new business development and new sales creation, maintaining and contributing to a strong customer experience along with the rest of the team members. Ultimately the role is responsible for retention of existing customers and identification of new customers to maximize sales of sponsorship, advertising and subscriptions.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Sales Manager, Sponsorship & Advertisingyou will:

• Undertake end to end management of the sales/ relationship cycle for sponsors, partners, and advertisers
• Build and maintain client relationships, working closely with stakeholders throughout the sales cycle and on a regular basis.
• Prospect for new business and grow new customer sales Reuters and work on pitch for new logos
• Devise sales and activation plans for each client and sponsor/partner agreement
• Create additional value opportunities for key accounts and sponsors/partners
• Make contact with advertisers/sponsor/partners on a regular basis (video conference, audio calls and face to face)
• Undertake research into potential advertisers/sponsors, including competitor analysis

About You

You're a fit for the role of Sales Manager, Sponsorship & Advertisingif you have the following required qualifications:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications preferred but not essential
• Minimum five years' experience in event sponsorship and/or advertising sales preferred
• Exposure to Thomson Reuters' markets would be advantageous
• Experience working in a customer-obsessed culture essential,
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including understanding the administrative function of sales

What's in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you'll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters clarifies today's complex landscape with AI and technology, deep subject-matter expertise, and content the world has trusted for over 150 years – giving professionals the confidence to know today, navigate tomorrow, and lead a fast-evolving world. Our industry-leading products include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting, and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services, Reuters.

We empower our colleagues to reduce inefficiencies so they can do more of the work that matters, act decisively to add greater value for critical stakeholders, and anticipate future challenges to face the unexpected. As the future arrives faster than ever, we're standing alongside our global team of more than 26,000 colleagues across 70+ countries, ready to fulfill our purpose: to inform the way forward. Sound exciting? Apply today to join our team

Equal Opportunity & Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. Additional details on how to request an accommodation can be found here.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.