Location: MetroWorks HQ- High Street Kensington, London
Position: Permanent
About the Role
We are looking for a driven and commercially minded Ents & Property Agency Partner to join our commercial team. Working closely alongside the existing Category Lead across both Entertainment (Ents) and Property, this role is a blend of proactive new business acquisition and existing account management.
With Metro as the hero brand across both print and digital platforms, your core objective will be to identify and unlock growth advertising opportunities, build a wider and more sustainable client base, and drive year-on-year (YoY) revenue growth across these two high-potential categories.
Main Responsibilities
•Unlock new advertising revenue and build a sustainable, expanding client base across both the Entertainment and Property sectors to achieve YoY growth targets.
•Target and win new business across agencies and direct clients within key live music, events promotion, venue, and experience sub-sectors.
•Leverage Metro’s editorial content plan alongside bigger, pre-planned monthly Ents Great Days Out features as key commercial hooks.
•Grow revenue across new home builders and associated property marketplace organisations.
•Utilise Metro’s weekly editorial content plan and monthly pre-agreed special features to secure new partnerships and advertising spend.
•Champion Metro as the hero brand across print and digital, identifying cross-platform growth opportunities that maximise advertiser visibility and return on investment.
•Build, tailor and deliver compelling proactive and reactive commercial proposals that align with client objectives.
•Consultatively sell into both media agencies and direct clients through face-to-face meetings, calls, and ongoing strategic communications to secure ongoing and repeat business.
•Partner closely with the Category Lead for Ents and Property to ensure a joined-up approach to market coverage, pipeline management, and account growth.
•Collaborate with the Insights team and Metroworks to translate our Property and Ents audience data and reader interests into bespoke commercial solutions that highlight advertiser USPs.
Person Specification
•Proven track record in media sales, agency partnerships, or commercial account management, ideally across print and digital platforms.
•Strong consultative selling skills with the ability to build lasting relationships across both media agencies and direct clients.
•Experience pitching creative and editorial-led commercial solutions, turning content calendars and special features into compelling sales hooks.
•Confidence working collaboratively with internal insight and creative teams to craft data-backed proposals.
•A proactive, self-starting mindset focused on new business acquisition and sustainable revenue growth.
•Existing contacts or experience within the Entertainment (live music, events, experiences) and/or Property (new homes, property portals) sectors is advantageous.
Package Description
Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:
•25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
•Pension plan and life cover
•Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
•Onsite gym, subsidised canteen and onsite nurse and GP clinics
Plus much more...
About Us
Mail Metro Media is the advertising home of some of the UK’s most engaged newsbrands: Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Metro, The i Paper and New Scientist.
The Mail Metro team provides a single point of contact across print, digital, audio, video and social, allowing agencies and advertisers easy access to the millions of consumers who engage with dmg media’s brands every day.
www.mailmetromedia.co.uk
Our Commitment
We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.