Head of Business Development for Simply Media The key requirements are a strong sales background, excellent presentation skills, and a keen knowledge and interest in the entertainment industry. Initially applicants should email their CV and covering letter to address sybil.fennell@simplymedia.tv

Simply Mediais looking for a dynamic, persuasive and commercially-minded Business Development Manager - to generate new business and drive sales across our Mail-Order/Print, Trade, Digital and Publishing divisions. As this is, primarily, a sales-oriented role, the successful candidate will perform a vitally important function across the entire
business - and will be central to future growth.

The role is suitable for someone looking for a challenging and varied position.
One day they could be presenting a 'white-label' solution (for our mail-order
catalogue or online businesses) to a major publisher, the next day they could
be pitching our portfolio of 500+ Films & TV programmes to the Buying team
of a large retailer or a small, specialist store. Or, alternatively, they could
be meeting a content provider alongside specialists within our Publishing team.
As they learn more about the business, further opportunities will become
apparent - the Business Development Manager should be able to spot those
opportunities and exploit them wherever possible, working closely with the
Heads of each department.

Ideally, the successful candidate will have a keen interest in Film and
TV and have some knowledge or experience of the home entertainment industry
(DVDs, CDs, Digital Downloads etc). Although a genuine curiosity about the
industry and the ability to absorb information, learn quickly and truly
understand the company's products and services, are pre-requisites. Similarly,
the successful candidate should understand and have professional experience of
both print and online media - and be comfortable discussing new and innovative
areas of development. They should have at least 2-3 years experience in a
comparable sales/business development environment - or possess the confidence,
knowledge and enthusiasm to further their career in this field.

Simply Media Clients

The following table of 'Example Clients' indicates the types of
organisations Simply Media's
Business Development Manager will be approaching. While we have existing
relationships with many of the following companies, there are many others we
should be working with. These will be both big and small (from National
Newspapers or film studios, to specialist retailers, online and offline) - so,
the successful candidate will be comfortable communicating at all levels.

Example Clients

Key Responsibilities & Abilities:

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  Leading New Business/Sales  Pitches
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  Developing Target Lists and Generating New Leads
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  Following-up Inbound Leads
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  Building Relationships with Existing Clients
• 
  Writing/Preparing/Presenting Client
  Presentations
• 
  Researching the Market
• 
  Negotiating Terms
• 
  Reporting on Sales Activities
• 
  Helping to Develop Sales Materials
• 
  Work with internal teams to Maximise Sales from
  Existing Clients/Customers

Personal Skills & Qualities:

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  Highly commercially-minded
• 
  Excellent verbal and written communication
  skills
• 
  Enterprising, ambitious and entrepreneurial
• 
  Confident, persuasive and enthusiastic
• 
  Strong interpersonal skills and organisational
  abilities
• 
  Positive-thinking, optimistic and pragmatic
• 
  Charismatic and (whenever necessary) tenacious
• 
  Smart appearance and a professional manner
• 
  Enjoys networking and meeting new people
• 
  Trustworthy and discreet (particularly when
  handling commercially sensitive information), with a high level of integrity.

Company Introduction

Simply Mediais a broad-based media company, specialising in Film
& Video Production, Creative Services, Publishing and Distribution.

Our in-house Production facility makes factual programmes and documentaries, mainly for the Discovery, History and UKTV
channels (amongst other similar broadcasters in the UK and North America). In
the past, we've also operated several successful Shopping Channels on the BSkyB platform - and now provide commercial video production services to London's ad agencies, or direct to our corporate clients (including Boots plc, Smirnoff and EDF Energy).

Simply Media's core Distribution division has operated in the home
entertainment sector for nearly 25 years (in various incarnations) -
distributing a vast range of licenced and 3rd party films and TV programmes,
through our 200+ Trade Retail clients (ie Amazon,
Play.com, HMV and WHSmith etc) and
our own direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail businesses. Currently, our consumer
marketing activity includes extensive national press advertising, a burgeoning
online business and a portfolio of market-leading mail-order catalogues - distributed
to more than 300k households each month, under our own brands and on behalf of
other companies (such as The Guardian
andTelegraph).

Over the last quarter century, we've sold nearly 100 million DVDs (and other media formats) in the UK alone - and we're now in the process of launching in to the digital
download and streaming media market.

On the Publishing side, the Simply Media label currently licences, manufactures and distributes 500+ titles on behalf of a wide variety of content owners and producers (including the BBC, ITV Global and Universal, as well as many other
smaller and more specialised studios). We have a strong track-record in British
heritage, classic films, television series and special interest programmes
(particularly history, aviation and military titles). However, we are now
actively seeking to broaden our reach to encompass a number of other genres.

Recent hit releases include: Our Friends in the North, Grand Designs, Ken Burn's acclaimed Jazz, War and Civil War series and The Alan Clark Diaries. We also
originally released one of the biggest-selling sport related DVDs of the last
decade(The Ashes: 2005).

Additional, Simply Mediais currently managed by its majority shareholder and
Chairman, Mike Luckwell. A key figure in the media industry over the last 50
years, Mike founded the Moving Picture
Company in 1970, was MD of Carlton
Communications in the early 1980s and went on to become the biggest
investor in Martin Sorrell's global advertising group,WPP (owners of Saatchi & Saatchi,

Ogilvy and J Walter Thompson). He has also invested in and served on the board of a diverse range of companies - from leisure providers, Riverside and Espree, to children's TV and film company, HIT Entertainment (owner of Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder and Barney), amongst many others. Since 2006, he has been a major
investor in renowned media investment group, Ingenious Media Active Capital - serving as its Chairman since 2008.

Mike was also one of the founders of the Advertising Producers Association, the Independent Programme Producers Association (now PACT) and the Television Advertising  Awards. And, in 2004, he set-up UK Screen, the main trade association representing the interests of  the UK's film and TV service industries.