Vice President, Buyer Development

Index Exchange is looking for a Vice President, Buyer Development to lead our European team with offices in London, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, and Dusseldorf. The Buyer Development team at Index Exchange helps buyers find the most efficient path to the audiences and supply they are looking for across all digital channels.

In this role, you will manage and cultivate - business relationships across European Agencies and direct brands. You are active in market and bring strong relationships with you. You enjoy providing marketplace guidance, have experience developing and driving strategy and ensuring teams are positioned to execute against key opportunities. An important aspect of this role involves developing effective client interactions to foster a better working relationship, collaboration, and overall partnership with Agencies and Marketers.

**_ 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.

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. 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 500 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?

**We're searching for a Vice President, Buyer Development to lead our agency and brand sales team across EMEA.**

**What We're Looking For**:
**Experienced leader with a deep understanding of the programmatic ecosystem, proven track record, and key strategic relationships across the agency community.**
- **Knowledgeable**: Depth of knowledge in ad tech including advertising/agency business models, technical understanding of media trading, RTB and/or other related advertising technology is essential.
- **Strategic**:You will draw on your experience to formulate, track, and drive to completion initiatives designed to enhance and strengthen our client relationships. We'll look to you to identify actionable insights and new opportunities for our clients and team members to increase revenue and drive greater marketplace demand.
- **Relationships**: You have worked with and established relationships with key Holding Companies and Agency leadership over your career. You have friends and collogues scattered around the industry you can call upon to help drive strategic discussion and support your team with.****:

- **Accountable**:You love metrics and can help a sales team focus and be accountable to them. You will implement, manage and report regularly on key metrics to help guide and drive growth across your customer base. You bring planning, operational excellence, and experience setting and reaching goals that align with overall company strategy.

**Seasoned mentor and coach with deep passion for developing and guiding all levels within an organization.**
- **Leader**: You will be directly responsible for building and leading a world class agency development team charged with identifying and driving regionally relevant strategies that drive growth across your team's portfolio of customers.
- **Mentorship**:Our current team has the knowledge, ability, and drive to make a huge impact on our growth as a company. In this role, you will be expected to nurture and guide the team by leveraging your experience mentoring, coaching, leading, and providing feedback on a global scale.
- **Open and Transparent**: Your partnership with the current and future team should reflect that of our open and transparent culture, capitalizing on employee retention and career development.
- **Key Talent**:We are growing quickly. High comfort level with organizational design, hiring top talent, and retaining key employees through career development and upward mobility.

**Work cross functionally with various stakeholders to drive forward progress across the buyer development team.**
- **Communication**:Extensive communication skill, knowledge sharing, financial acumen including P&L management, and partnering with Product, Finance, HR and Executive leadership. Deep understanding of how to collaborate across functionsto get desired outcomes to help drive your business forward.
- **Collaborative**: You'll need to work cross-functionally with other Index Exchange teams to implement strategies, provide feedback/insight/reports and document new processes to help drive growth for your business.

**Here's What You'll be Doing**:

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