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Company Description
Who are we?
Mantis is a technology business with a suite of data driven products for both media owners and advertisers - utilising its tech platform and products to help both sides of the digital ecosystem. Mantis prides itself in being at the forefront of innovation and producing the best of the best in AI data driven tools and products for media owners and advertisers. Built by Reach PLC and powered by IBM Watson, Mantis is the most powerful and precise approach to brand safety and contextual advertising available in the market today!
In 2025 we are continuing to grow and scale, and are looking to add ambitious and dynamic talent to our teams to help us achieve our goals.
Reach Plc is the UK’s largest commercial news publisher, home to the UK and Ireland’s most iconic digital platforms, magazines and newspapers.
Job Description
What you’ll be doing:
This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate with the chance to join a team in growth mode, where unlocking new data outlets and shaping the narrative with existing Mantis clients will be justly rewarded. 2025 is a key year for Mantis, and this newly created role is key to the success as we look to increase data partnerships with key Ad Tech vendors in order to enable the buy side the best choice in the market for contextual advertising.
This position is a mixture of home-based and hub based (Canary Wharf), and in this role you will work alongside the Digital Commercial Director to create new data partnerships with the leading SSP and DSPs - this will be key to the first year in this role.
You will support Mantis Marketplace publishers with best practice and data strategies across their own O&O domains, and will also support Mantis agency and brand direct teams. Our Data Marketplace Lead will work to continuously up skill external programmatic sales teams on Mantis contextual segments.
Qualifications
What you’ll need to succeed:
You will need to have advanced programmatic knowledge and understanding on how data is accessed via SSP & DSPs, plus be adept at selling data to the relevant stakeholders. Having existing buyside relationships will be a huge advantage.
We are looking for individuals with demonstrable success in a sales role capacity with a stellar reputation and proven track record as being one of the industry’s best. It is essential that you have demonstrated the ability to think strategically to identify a brand’s key business objectives and challenges, translating and building into compelling value propositions.
We are looking for highly curious and intelligent individuals, constantly enhancing your industry knowledge and competitive insight to help you close business and generate significant revenue. You will be the ultimate team player and have proven experience working cross functionally and collaboratively across internal teams to build business and sales activity.
You will be an excellent problem solver and are able to handle multiple priorities utilizing exceptional organisational skills. This is a fast paced team environment, and we need someone who can be both a self starter and maintain rigorous attention to detail.
Additional Information
What can we offer you?
We're offering a competitive salary and a range of fantastic benefits to help support you both personally and professionally. These include:
- Help saving for your retirement - join our pension scheme and we’ll match contributions up to 6%
- 25 days’ holiday per year when you join. After three, five and ten years’ service with Reach, you’ll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Giving back day - an additional day’s leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
- Enhanced family leave - including maternity, paternity and adoption - and you’ll be eligible after just six months’ employment
- Private Healthcare Cash Plan - free health cash plan so you can claim back cash for a range of medical expenses
- As one of the UK’s top 50 Inclusive Employers everyone’s invited to join our events, programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive
- Wellbeing support - including a 24/7 employee assistance programme (EAP) for you and your nearest and dearest
Reach plc believes diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.
