Buyer Development Director

About Index Exchange:

Index is a global advertising marketplace enabling media owners to grow their revenue by helping marketers reach consumers across every screen. We’re a proud industry pioneer with nearly 20 years of experience accelerating the evolution of ad technology for the world’s leading experience-makers.

We are all in on video this year. We recently rebuilt our platform from the ground up specifically for this new channel, allowing our customers to transact across every device and screen as efficiently as possible. We’re reimagining streaming TV, and it has become one of the fastest growing areas of our business.

Index is an exciting and fast-paced place to work, and our company is built on our values of change, support, learning and teaching, trust, and intention. You will be able to feed your ambition, lean into trust & transparency, and feel genuine support from your colleagues here.

We pride ourselves on our independence and openness, not only in our technology, but in our teams, too. Our diverse and inclusive culture celebrates how we can leverage our unique differences to help drive Index forward.

We have more than 550 Indexers around the globe dedicated to building a safe and transparent marketplace that provides a trusted experience for consumers, and we’re looking for talented professionals to help take us to the next level.

Are you ready to join the programmatic evolution?

Index Exchange (Index) is looking for a Buyer Development Director with outstanding ad technology, leadership and consultation skills to join our EMEA team. The Index Buyer Development team provides agencies, trading desks, and advertisers with crucial insights into market developments and ensures that buyers have access to our publishers’ inventory via their preferred method. In this role, you will be responsible for engaging with buy side partners in the French market. You will be crucial to maintaining and furthering existing relationships, whilst supporting business development in an effort to grow new accounts, partnerships and evangelize the Index Exchange brand.    This role will be focussed on revenue attainment, but with a strong emphasis on providing consultative services to our buyers, so you will have to be comfortable with delivering educational sessions with a competent level of programmatic experience. You will be expected to thrive in a highly technical environment and have a much higher degree of technical proficiency than for your average role prior exposure to programmatic terminology and trends will go a long way in setting you up for success

What We’re Looking For:

• Strategic: Index values partnerships and offering strategic insights to the agencies and marketers who leverage our exchange. We want you to provide insights and recommendations to our external stakeholders around the programmatic ecosystem as a whole while utilising our strong suite of buyer products to grow our commercial relationships with partners.
• Collaborative: In order to retain and maintain our growing agency and marketer accounts, you will work cross-functionally with buyer Account Management, Ops, Product and Publisher teams, and become a subject matter expert on the performance and growth of our partners. Communicative: You will be working with a number of clients at any given time and expected to communicate effectively, and often, both internally and externally. This is a highly visible, client facing role, where building trusted relationships with agencies and marketers is essential to success. You will have to be able to build strong relationships.
• A Technical/Consultative Sales Approach: You will use your programmatic experience, technical platform interests, business acumen and deep understanding of Index’s buyer product suite to provide the right solution for our buyer partners.

Here’s What You’ll be Doing:

• Become the senior-level day-to-day contact for FR based agencies, brands, and their associated programmatic teams
• Manage relationships with buyers to provide partners with product suitability, partnership expansion opportunities, and ensure opportunities are being communicated through both a buyer and operational lens and across organizational lines. Become an educational resource for agency and marketer clients - from the trader level to senior stakeholders -- through thought leadership around the programmatic ecosystem and supply landscape.
• Take responsibility for the performance, growth and partnership strength of our buyside Marketplace product partners, in market, while continuing to grow the book of business of agency brands engaging with their marketplace and activating campaigns through their