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Job Title Senior Account Manager – UK, Ireland
Job Category Sales
Job Description Critically-acclaimed and leading mobile game publisher Digital Chocolate seeks an experienced Account Manager to execute sales and account management activities for its products across United Kingdom and Ireland.

The ideal candidate should have experience working in Sales at a mobile content, handset manufacturer, interactive entertainment, consumer packaged goods or media and entertainment company. Specific experience in the video game industry is a plus.

Duties & Responsibilities:
- Day-to-day management of a selected number of distribution channels i.e. customer accounts in the UK/Ireland market
- Achieving high visibility for new products in the channel by planning, negotiating and implementing promotions and marketing campaigns
- Liaising with all areas of the business in order to assure the highest level of customer satisfaction
- Monitoring sales and identifying new business opportunities
- Key competitor analysis within the own region

Experience & Requirements:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in marketing, business or economics
- Minimum 5 years experience in sales or sales-related field
- Excellent negotiating skills
- Knowledge of b-to-b channel sales and some understanding in b-to-c (consumer) sales

Personal qualities:
- Independent
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with continuous challenges
- A flexible thinker who generates new ideas and business solutions
- A keen interest in gaming and some knowledge of games and game development will be appreciated

In addition to a passionate, creative, international and innovative team, Digital Chocolate offers an opportunity to take part in the booming global mobile games industry providing a competitive salary and benefits package.

Please feel free to contact us and tell about yourself. Please mail your CV, resume and salary request to hl-careers@digitalchocolate.com by 30th of April 2008. Please write "Senior Account Manager - UKI" to the subject field.

About Digital Chocolate:
Digital Chocolate is a leading developer of original, high-quality games and applications for mobile phones. Based in San Mateo, California and founded in 2003 by software gaming pioneer, Trip Hawkins, Digital Chocolate offers some of the world’s most popular and top-rated games, already earning over 20 Game of the Year Awards and over 50 Editor’s Awards by top gaming press. In 2006 and again in 2007, it was named Best Games Developer at the Mobile Entertainment Awards, decided by a voting panel of over 400 mobile company executives including leading Operators, OEMs, Publishers and Developers. It was also named a 2006 Fierce 15 emerging wireless company for its innovation around community, networked and social games with products like award-winning MLSN Sports Picks, and newly released AvaPeeps™: FlirtNation. Since its inception, Digital Chocolate has secured relationships with more than 200 carriers and partners, including Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Cingular, Orange and 3 and its products are available in over 70 countries around the world. Digital Chocolate locations are San Mateo - California, Helsinki – Finland, Barcelona – Spain and Bangalore – India.

For further information, please visit: www.digitalchocolate.com
Location UK & Europe, England
Date posted 08/04/2008
Digital Chocolate

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