Minimum qualifications:
- 8 years of experience in the advertising industry (Business-to-Consumer (B2C) Marketing, Brand Management, Ads Sales, Ad Tech, Location Based Marketing).
- 2 years of experience in commercial leadership, managing/leading sales teams.
- Experience in strategy and digital transformation.
- Ability to speak and write in English and Portuguese fluently.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with operational excellence/business governance.
- In-depth region expertise and relationships.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, creative, problem-solving, and innovative thinking skills.
- Entrepreneurial abilities.
- Excellent public speaking skills, and ability to influence audience perception and the media community/press.
- Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a team, and increase the level of impact the team delivers.
**About the job**:
Businesses that partner with Waze come in all shapes and sizes.
Your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills contribute greatly to Waze's sales team.
Using your influencing and relationship-building skills, you provide excellent client service, research and market analysis.
You anticipate how decisions are made, persistently explore and uncover the business needs of Waze's key clients and understand how our product can grow their business.
Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users.
At Waze, we leave all egos at the door and concentrate on the job at hand.
We value passionate, down to earth, "can do" people who enjoy fine-tuning small details, without losing sight of the big picture.
We are looking for the type of person who feels uncomfortable when a day goes by without achieving something impactful.
Someone who is driven to get things done and views obstacles as an exciting challenge that demands a creative solution.
Above all else, this role requires someone who takes great pride in their work and is inspired and motivated by their role in improving the way millions of people drive worldwide.
As the Waze Country Manager, you will govern Brazil's general goals and strategy with a deep focus on ad business, define business and go-to-market strategy for Waze Ads.
You will strengthen and leverage key relationships with Google counterparts to further the expansion and success of the Waze business.
Waze's sales team is the link that connects drivers with businesses both big and small.
With millions of drivers using Waze, you have access to a platform that can aid businesses in reaching thousands of potential local customers on their mobile devices.
We are looking for individuals who are familiar with the world of advertising and who are self starters, team players and ready to be part of a dynamic environment.
**Responsibilities**:
- Increase business by finding new business growth streams, growing Waze relationships with key current advertisers, identify and acquire new large clients.
- Leverage and build relationships with clients (ad agencies and end clients), and work closely with our customers to develop and implement new approaches to improve Waze's account management practices.
- Lead and mentor the team by developing their skills in areas such as relationship-building, account strategy and planning, opportunity identification besides building a strategic promoting philosophy to clients and to the whole team.
- Oversee Marketing and Partnership strategy and make sure all objectives are aligned to reach combined growth.
- Engage with the local media/press and represent Waze in the media, looking for business opportunities in the market that will advantage Waze and position it for growth.
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