Senior Business Development Manager – Supply

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Identify, pitch, and onboard premium UK publishers and media owners onto the ConnectAd platform.

• Develop and implement a supply-acquisition strategy aimed at securing high-quality, monetisation-ready inventory across various formats and verticals.

• Manage and nurture relationships with existing publisher partners, spotting opportunities to enhance inventory, formats, and revenue.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to publishers regarding yield strategy, demand activation, and platform integration.

• Work closely with Customer Success teams to guarantee seamless onboarding, exceptional service levels, and strong partnership satisfaction for newly acquired publishers.

• Collaborate with account management, product, and operations teams to ensure effective onboarding and successful partner activation.

• Represent ConnectAd at industry events, publisher meetings, and high-level stakeholder discussions within the UK.

• Track market trends and competitive dynamics to uncover new partnership opportunities.

• Provide market insights to product and leadership teams to guide ConnectAd's supply strategy.

• Achieve success metrics, including growth in new business revenue, the number of publisher partnerships onboarded, revenue growth from existing accounts, UK supply-side revenue contribution, retention and satisfaction, pipeline conversion, inventory quality and diversity, and depth of strategic relationships.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant, demonstrated experience in publisher development, supply-side partnerships, adtech, or programmatic business development.

• Strong existing network among UK publishers and media owners.

• Proven history of acquiring and expanding revenue-generating publisher partnerships.

• Comprehensive understanding of SSPs, header bidding, yield management, ad servers, and programmatic monetisation.

• Excellent negotiation and relationship-management skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong sense of ownership, comfortable in a dynamic, independent SSP environment.

• Business-fluent English (C1 or higher).

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary accompanied by a performance-based bonus.

• A strategic, high-impact role within a rapidly growing independent SSP.

• A flexible remote working model.

• A collaborative and entrepreneurial environment where you can influence ConnectAd's supply strategy in the UK.