Esports Gaming

As a Sales Manager, you will be responsible for all sales and new business initiatives for ESL Asia. Working remotely and/or connected to one of our local offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok, you will form a key part of the Asia commercial teams, reporting directly into the lead for the region.

You will be a key revenue driver for the business, matching partners with products from the suite of ESL esports programs and DreamHack gaming lifestyle festivals.Your tasks will range from approaching new clients and brands across the endemic and non-endemic advertising landscape, as well as managing existing long-term key clients and helping develop and deliver on their long-term goals, thus helping to drive ESL to new heights.

The role focuses on helping monetize key ESL branded properties, either newly launched or in development, such as the Snapdragon Pro Series (ESL Mobile), potential future DreamHack festivals in Asia, local country esports events, as well as devising new unique and engaging branding initiatives and partnerships to engage the Asia gaming and esports community and deliver on client KPI’s. By working closely with ESL teams internally and globally, you will ensure seamless campaign delivery and highest possible levels of campaign execution, seeing your creations come to life at a national level in both online and live or offline environments

**What you’ll do**:

- Approach new clients, understand their key objectives and help activate them within the relevant ESL esports programs
- Maintain existing key client relationships through regular communication and work to develop new initiatives within those accounts
- Maintain an accurate sales pipeline
- Take steps to ensure key account retention, business growth and profitability
- Plan and control proposal preparation, customer support, and customer consulting
- Creation and delivery of detailed post campaign reports
- Independently identify market/growth potential, observe the competitors, and know their service spectrum, price structure, and price policy
- Provide input to and lead the implementation of account management strategy to expand and maintain ESL Asia’s customer base, deliver net growth, revenue, profitability, and service targets for key accounts in line with ESL’s business strategy
- Work closely with internal ESL product teams to ensure successful campaign management and execution and that the sales goals for the relevant strategic key accounts are met

**What you need**:

- Minimum of 7+ years of relevant experience in sales, brand partnerships/sponsorships and pipeline building
- Experience within the media/advertising landscape and working with global/local advertising agencies or clients directly
- Fully capable in building and maintaining relationships with clients and delivering on campaign objectives and KPI’s
- Excellent communication and face to face presentations as well as good negotiation skills
- An understanding of the competitive esports industry and its events (base level at least)
- Demonstrated ability to communicate in the English language, both spoken and written
- Additional language skills (such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean) are nice to have, as you'll be potentially tasked to bring in new opportunities in new markets that mainly speak those languages.

**The Company**

ESL is the world’s largest & leading Esports company, operating various online and offline events such as Intel Extreme Masters, ESL One, CS:GO Pro-League as well as DreamHack Festival and numerous regional and national leagues. ESL has offices in 15 different countries and operations on all continents with around 700 employees.

We are an incredibly fast-paced digital company, driven by the passion for creating this new chapter of the sports-entertainment history. We value independent minds, initiative, and a start-up mindset. We give quickly responsibilities and opportunities, with us you really can be somebody and have a positive impact.

**How to apply**

ESL will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require ESL's sponsorship of a visa.