Key Account Executive - Sport & Entertainment

Company: Getty Images
Company: Getty Images
Location: London
Commitment: Fixed Term
Department: Marketing & Revenue – EMEA Sales
Posted on: 2025-07-30 03:32
The Senior Key Account Executive role is responsible for maintaining and growing revenue through new customers in addition to existing clients and partners.This role is the contact for key assigned accounts and is responsible for generating revenue by developing custom solutions with Getty Images’ products and services. You must be comfortable with challenging sales targets and account opportunity development, thus creating future revenue within their existing client bases. This role develops a trusted advisor relationship with key customer stakeholders and executive sponsors, and maintains a strong, long-lasting customer relationship. Experience with working within Motorsport and Football is essential.  Who You Are:   You are a dedicated Salesperson that is well organised, self-motivated and with a proven track record of success in delivering against targets. You will be able to demonstrate within your current role your expertise in developing client relationships and growing accounts to realise their full potential across multiple products.  As an excellent communicator you will be able to engage and build rapport quickly with your all levels of clients and colleagues alike. By having the ability to flex your style you will fit yourself into the Getty Images team and job role seamlessly, at all times bringing confidence and trust to customer's, and being a positive influence with your colleagues.   This role is integral to the growth of the Sport & Entertainment team, ensuring that key accounts receive the attention and strategic guidance needed to thrive. If you have a passion for driving revenue, managing key relationships, and delivering innovative solutions, we encourage you to apply. Your Next Challenge:  Pursue new revenue opportunities from within the existing customer portfolio.   Identify high potential revenue opportunities through market and customer profiling.   Negotiate subscription renewals.   Leverage cross-functional relationships to get work done efficiently.   Implement business strategy across the target segment, whether cross-selling, upselling, discount management, successfully raising pricing, or bringing new, fee-based products or features to market. Leverage all products and services to build new segment customer relationships and develop valuable revenue opportunities.   Move strategically internally and externally to deal with broader issues and opportunities for the accounts.   Find creative solutions and be proactive in finding revenue opportunities.  Deliver detailed selling plans at least twice yearly, outlining specific targets, contact strategy, KPIs for success, and points of adjustment. Prioritise all activities to maintain a balanced pipeline of deals.   Develop industry level knowledge across your account base.   Meet required monthly Salesforce CRM KPIs. Upload a forecast (Outlook) that is +/-10% of what is delivered in the month. What You'll Need:  Solid direct Sales and Account Management experience within a fast-pace organisation.   Experience selling to FTSE 100 organisations.   Strong relationship building skills & experience of developing accounts to maximise revenue.   Demonstrated success in building new business revenue within existing accounts.   Must have strong communication and presentation skills.   Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects; must have strong organisational skills.   Proficient knowledge of all MS Office tools.   Experience in using Salesforce.    Demonstrated closing and forecasting skills.   Understanding of Marketing and Advertising preferably with an interest in Digital.   Able to build cross-functional relationships necessary to deliver revenue results.   Strong communication, negotiation, presentation and proposal development skills.   Project management - lead/co-lead a project implementation.   Driven to succeed and competitive: circumvents barriers, consistently striving to exceed 100%. Experience of selling multiple products in one solution.   There’s a story in every picture, a narrative in every frame.   We believe in the power of visuals. As a leading visual content creator, our three brands–Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash–offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer, whatever their size, location, or budget. Whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving, our visuals help any brand, business, or organization communicate more effectively with their target audience and urge them to action. In other words, we know how powerful an image or video can be—and that it can move the world.    Working at Getty Images   Our goal is to be one of the best places to work globally, which means we’re dedicated to providing experiences and resources that allow you to do your best work. Foundational to our culture are our Leadership Principles, which are the shared values that guide how we come together to do our work. We raise the bar and collectively bring solutions while exercising trust, transparency, and care. We actively reject biased behavior and are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences. We focus on our customers and deliver on our commitments and commercial goals.    We foster a collaborative and supportive environment that prioritizes delivering results efficiently and using time wisely, so that all employees can achieve balance between commitments to the company and health and well-being in our lives. We value the importance of rest and recovery ranging from company-paid holidays to time away from work.   Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is a publicly traded company, and its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GETY". You may be eligible to participate in our employee Stock Purchase Plan, which allows employees to purchase company stock at a 15% discount to market.    Our employees’ growth, development, belonging, and engagement are important investments. We offer learning experiences ranging from leadership development, diversity and inclusion training, mentoring programs, a high potential program, and professional and skills development. We prioritize staying connected in our hybrid-working world and encourage participation in global morale events and local gatherings, as well as finding community in one or more of our Employee Resource Groups. Learning about our business is paramount, and our open and transparent culture means you’ll have direct access to experts and senior leaders via open forums, all hands, and content hours.    Getty Images believes that diversity is critical to our success in moving the world and is committed to creating an inclusive, mutually respectful environment that celebrates diversity. We seek to hire based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. Getty Images is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. Apply for this job
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