Manager, Digital Monetization

Are you creative, dynamic and passionate? Do you like to think outside of the box and find new ways to achieve your goals? Corus Entertainment has an exciting opportunity for you. If you have a passion for excellence, and would like to work for Corus Entertainment, we encourage you to apply.

**Division**: National Digital Sales

**Work Status**: Contract - 12 months

**Location**: 25 Dockside Drive, Toronto, ON. Temporarily remote/work from home within Ontario.

About the Role
Reporting to the Head of Digital Sales, the Manager - Digital Monetization will lead a team to create digital sales opportunities across the entire portfolio of Corus digital properties. They will act as a key liaison between the digital product/content team and the digital sales team to facilitate communication, collaboration and development of integrated advertising solutions.
The Manager - Digital Monetization will also work closely with the 360 degrees integrated sales team, Tempo, to create cross-platform packages with strategic digital components. The role includes digital packaging of tent pole properties like The Morning Show, Big Brother Canada, Top Chef Canada etc.

**You’ll be working on things like**:

- Manage and lead a team of 3 Monetization strategists.
- Work cross functionally with production groups, creator network and social agency to determine processes and workflows for sales.
- Create unique and appealing monetization strategies to enable sales activation at scale.
- Participate in senior meetings pertaining to the development of products and packages for sales
- Support the monetization strategists in determining ideal products and packages by brands.
- Function as a key contact for sponsorships and integration opportunities across the entire digital media product portfolio and holder of the digital pre-sales process
- Leads and owns the integrated digital pre-sales process - participating in brainstorms with content, social, production and digital Account Managers during ideation process
- Promote a monetization-oriented mindset within the Product/Content team, while being mindful of editorial quality, brand integrity and user experience
- Develop highly-polished digital sales and promotional materials
- Push compelling and visually appealing, pre-packaged sales opportunities to the digital sales team and to market
- Collaborate with the online experience team to understand emerging technologies and opportunities and develop sales solutions to enable net new business
- Work closely with Product/Content team to maintain a portfolio of updated product overview for all sites
- Organize and facilitate monthly editorial meetings - Identify upcoming opportunities, set priorities and determine appropriate timing in order to optimize on the sales cycle
- Work closely with digital production and social teams to establish sales pricing and process
- Maintain a keen knowledge of competitive pricing landscape
- Be active in sourcing new digital technologies and providing POV to leverage for increase integrated sales offerings
- Keep up-to-date with general digital industry trends and performance of all Corus digital brands
- Maintain a monthly integrated sales reporting funnel - to include quantity of pitched/sold/executed integrated opportunities, revenue secured etc.

If you have the following we want to hear from you
- 5-7 years experience in a digital sales or digital media related role involving client service
- Leadership skills with 2 years of experience managing a team
- Capable of adapting & communicating highly technical information into value-based selling
- Exceptional PowerPoint skills and the ability to create concise and compelling presentations
- Strong organization and prioritization skills
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment with a variety of teams
- Familiarity with new media technologies, and a strong ability to identify emerging market trends
- An understanding of advertiser needs and the capacity to recommend opportunities that will drive the most interest
- Detail oriented, proactive approach, outstanding communication and listening skills
- Ability to work directly with clients as well as internal stakeholders across multiple teams
- Intermediate skills in Power Point, Word and Excel
- Photoshop experience preferred
- Knowledge of Corus brands - a BONUS

Why Corus?

Corus is a driving force in the media industry with a diverse portfolio of strong brands that entertain and inform audiences through great storytelling and compelling content, reaching millions of people around the world every day.

We have a passionate drive to connect with the world around us: to express, to share, to be part of people's lives. Walk around our offices, our stations, our studios across the country and you'll feel it. You'll see it in action.

You'll see it in the open communication and the approachability of our people. You'll see it in our care for quality work and the interest in new, creative soluti