Head of Advertising - Tori, Oikotie & Rakentaja

THE OPPORTUNITY IN A NUTSHELL
You? Commercial online advertising background, possibly with experience in business development. Data-driven, solution-oriented and collaborative mindset with a business acumen along with the ability to execute advertising strategy and drive results with our advertising solution offering. Experience from working in cross-functional teams.
Role? Head of Advertising to be the go-to person in any advertising-related matters. Implementing advertising strategy and developing our advertising solution offering, collaborating with our sales teams and media agencies to build advertising solutions and to meet the business targets.
Location? We work in a hybrid way, so you can be based anywhere in Finland! Our office is located just a few steps away from the Helsinki railway station. We’d be happy to meet with you at the office once, twice per month, depending on your schedules.
Why us? This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Schibsted's commercial success across Finland's leading marketplaces having millions of monthly users. We work independently on our Finnish products, but we collaborate internationally with the Schibsted Group on common projects every day, which creates the flourishing ground for professional development. Our community embraces curiosity, teamwork, a problem-solving mindset, and continuous learning.

Sounds like your cup of tea? Check out the details below!

WHO ARE YOU?

• We believe that in order to bring in the expertise we’re in need of, you’ve worked for +7 years in online advertising , including programmatic & contextual advertising.
• You’re business-savvy and bring with you a business acumen to help us with setting advertising priorities.
• You’re used to leading business/product initiatives or a team in a cross-functional setup.
• Fluency in Finnish and in English (even on Monday mornings;-). Our customers prefer to do business with us in Finnish and our official language is English. We gather people together from multiple backgrounds (memes in Spanish, Indian cooking recipes, database parodies, and dog videos circulate on our Slack channels!).
• As a person , you are dynamic, solution-oriented, and self-driven. Thanks to your analytical skills together with your commercial mindset, you master turning data and insights into growth strategies. Here is a motivated, development-oriented bunch of positive thinkers waiting for you, we hope you find our way of living as inspiring as we do!

WHAT’S THE JOB LIKE?
Responsibilities
As a Head of Advertising, your focus is on enabling the commercial success of our advertising solutions so how our advertising product offering on Tori, Oikotie and Rakentaja looks and develops over time, it’s up to you and to the Scalable Advertising Solutions squad (SAS) to plan and execute it! To do so, you’re the point of contact especially between our sales and media agencies. You make sure that our advertising products are competitive by collecting market insights on customer needs, regulator and privacy requirements, benchmarking our offerings and pricing to competitors, and presenting our new & face-lifted products to our external partners. Internally with our sales, you share your market findings to guide sales in the right direction without forgetting the prioritisation and evaluation of what’s strategically and business-wise important to focus on. Our sales colleagues keep on taking care of our customers but your expertise is needed in growing the advertising revenue by managing the advertising solution portfolio. We like to win it together, thus you also collaborate internally tightly with our marketing, sales operations, product, and tech squads on our way to meeting advertising P&L targets.

Not everything is sweet, so here’s the main opportunity to improve
You step into a brand new role which means that the responsibilities we’ve drafted above, haven’t been tested in practice. Thus, there might be some surprises ahead and a ‘we’ll find a way’ mindset will surely be needed from you. On the other hand, the unknown offers an opportunity to leave your fingerprint on how our advertising operations are drafted (exciting!)! No worries though, you’re not facing the unknown alone: Kati (your supervisor) and experts from our business verticals are here for you to tackle the future together. Is your curious mind asking for this kind of adventure?

Goals
During your first six months, we expect you to settle into our community, get to know our advertising product offering, and start building relationships with media agencies. Further down the road, we’re eager to see you managing our advertising solution offering and portfolio in close collaboration with product, tech, marketing and sales squads along with strengthening relationships with media agencies (and remember, we’re here to support you along the way!). What the future holds after that, let’s envision it together!

Colleagues
When getting to know us, you’ll notice quickly that we truly live and work based on our three key values: we win together when working on cross-functional teams around the OKRs (Objectives & Key Results), we encourage each other to be curious and actively develop ourselves for example with the help of LinkedIn Learning platform and Schibsted level training, and we are empowered to have courage to share ideas and challenge ourselves. If our way of working resonates with you, we believe that we’re a dream workplace for you!

Company
Schibsted, a product company, gathers together Tori, Oikotie & Rakentaja reaching +4M users monthly. Over 250 colleagues in Finland and 5700 in the Nordics want to steer innovation on News media, Marketplaces & Growth adventures to empower the millions of people interacting with us in their daily lives. We’re lucky to work with colleagues who share the passion for their work and are friendly and caring. Our community embraces curiosity, teamwork, a problem-solving mindset, and continuous learning. Have a sneak peek at our boogie on LinkedIn & Instagram along with the Schibsted Talks podcast hosted by our very own colleagues.

GOT YOUR ATTENTION? Let us hear from you!
If you are looking for a workplace and the role in which you could share your knowledge and expertise, learn and grow, get inspired, be yourself, and feel good, let us hear from you! We’re eagerly waiting for you to turn yourself in by the 22nd of May.

ANY QUESTIONS?
Your future supervisor and our Marketing Director, Kati Saarela is happy to tell you about the daily work and answer any questions you might have about the role. Kati is best available over the phone (040 0600998) on Wednesday 11.5 from 16:00-17:00, or by email any time (kati.saarela(at)schibsted.com).

RECRUITMENT PROCESS?
1.60 min meeting with Alessia and Venla, from the Talent Acquisition team (your background & future ambitions, role goals & expectations in short)
2. 60 min chat with the hiring supervisor Kati (get to know each other, how would it be to work as part of the team, diving deeper into your skillset)
3. 30 min meeting with few colleagues (get to know the Team)
4. 30 min coffee chat with Jussi, our CEO in Finland (Schibsted and our future steps)

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