Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

As National Account Manager you will be responsible for developing and overseeing all aspects of some of most valued and important key strategic Licensed UK Pub Groups.

This is a broad and strategic commercial role and the successful candidate will be required to have a hands on approach with an impressive track record of achievement in previous commercial positions. They will have excellent organisation, project management and administration skills, outstanding networking and natural relationship building skills. Additionally, they will have an advanced ability in sales proposition and negotiation and working data insight through to a fully formed commercial plan and strategy. Most importantly, they will have a genuine passion and knowledge for the Pub sector with a preferred knowledge in L&T and a real love of Sky Sports and Sky’s award-winning entertainment content

What you’ll do:

Develop, negotiate and execute customer plans to deliver budgeted revenue and subscription growth

Drive forward the customer commercial plans by having strong relationships with customers across all levels of their business

Identify opportunities through both customer relationships, and a data driven and analytical approach

Work with the Partnership Director to develop and craft our Commercial Strategy

Drive forward and lead the merging of our TV and Sky Connect businesses, implementing the new combined Commercial Strategy

Responsible for defining how we build a scalable and sustainable centrally billed model with L&T Operators

Ensure outstanding levels of administration and collaboration with other departments and support functions across Sky Business to deliver the customers plan

Passionate about building “winning relationships” with key stakeholders – internally and externally

Use strategic Insights to help drive and shape the Business and ensure decision making is insight driven.

Lead ad hoc projects across the team including people, research, strategy plus help bring new team improvements and ideas.

What you’ll bring:

Be creative and action orientated

Forward Thinking and Restless balancing day to day with having a longer term plan

Have a deep passion for the business and manage cost as if it were your own

Demand the highest standards and deliver the best experiences from all staff

Have in depth knowledge and proven background of working across the UK Pub sector

Excellent organisation, administerial & prioritisation skills

Strong commercial and analytical skills to confidently negotiate with senior stakeholders

Strong communication and presentational skills

Advanced skills in selling and understanding specific customer needs

Knowledgeable in Excel, Teams and PowerPoint

Preferred experience in National Account Management / Project management

Sky Business TV

Sky Business is the business-to-business division of Sky. We provide a wide variety of commercial premises across the UK and ROI with unrivalled entertainment, unmissable live sport and breaking news – connecting and entertaining millions of people every day. We also provide communication services to its customers including Sky WiFI and Sky Ethernet. Our heartland is the licensed trade – pubs, bars and hotels – but we also provide entertainment and connectivity services to oil rigs, sports stadiums, offices, care homes and hospitals, just to name a few.

The Rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

A generous pension package

Private healthcare

Discounted mobile and broadband

Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Where you’ll work:

Field based:

This role will be Field based across the UK

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.