Account Manager

Account Manager

Department: 93-602 - Media - Ad Sales

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - London

Why Join DAZN?

Joining DAZN in London means working at a global sports streaming business from one of the UK’s fastest-growing digital hubs. You’ll collaborate with smart, passionate people, move quickly, and help connect millions of fans to the sports they love. If you’re excited by working with a business growing at scale and the pace of live sport, DAZN is a great place to grow your career.

The Role

DAZN is looking for a Planner to support in pre-sale for brand campaigns across DAZN’s advertising inventory in the UK region. You will be responsible for creating brand opportunities with research and data to the very highest level across DAZN’s partner channels, the DAZN app, DAZN’s linear channels, social media. You will be organized and communicate effectively but most of all you will be passionate client servicing and advertising excellence.

• Client Briefing & Pre-Sale Support: Support the sales and planning teams in responding to client briefs by helping clarify objectives, target audiences, and success metrics ahead of campaign activation.
• Media Planning & Proposal Development: Assist in building media plans and responses to RFPs, including channel selection, budget allocation, and rationale that aligns with client goals.
• Audience & Market Insight: Use internal data, research tools, and industry insights to help define target audiences, inform planning decisions, and strengthen the strategic narrative in proposals.
• Forecasting & Performance Modelling: Support pre-sale forecasting by analysing historical performance, benchmarks, and available inventory to help set realistic expectations and KPIs.
• Sales Enablement & Materials: Help prepare pre-sale materials such as media plans, presentations, and planning documentation that support compelling client pitches and commercial conversations.
• Stakeholder
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with sales, activation, and insight teams to ensure proposals are accurate, feasible, and aligned with delivery capabilities.
• Value & Idea Generation: Contribute ideas that enhance proposal value, identify upsell opportunities, and support innovative thinking within pre-sale responses.
• Team Collaboration & Organisation: Support the project management team in managing timelines, coordinating inputs, and keeping pre-sale work streams organised and on track.

• Proficiency in Excel.
• Understanding of digital/media marketing and social media.
• Familiarity with the TV and digital sports industry.
• Creative thinker with excellent cross-team communication skills.
• Highly entrepreneurial, organized, and capable of working independently as well as collaboratively with internal teams.
• Adaptable to rapidly changing priorities and business circumstances.

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.