Online Commercial Country Manager (French and Italian/German speaking), - Central London - £35-45,000 plus bonus

Lokku is seeking an analytical, web-savvy and multi-lingual Commercial Country Manager to help us develop our business in both new and developed markets. If you’d like a key commercial role in an exciting and evolving internet company, and have enthusiasm and dedication in abundance, then please keep reading.

Lokku is a thriving on-line search company that specialises in vertical search engines for classifieds. Founded in 2006, we launched our first brand, Nestoria, a vertical property search engine, later that year. Today the service is used by 4 million people a month, across 8 countries.

We are currently consolidating our operations in our established countries while still broadening our reach into new and emerging marketplaces, and our Account Manager will play a critical role in meeting our growth targets. This person will become involved in the EMEA region as a whole, but their prime responsibility will be to develop and take ownership of our current client portfolio in France and Germany or Italy, and to identify new channels in those target countries that we can expand into.

• Pull together and deliver a financial report for your region to the senior management of the company, along with a forecast for the next year
• Negotiate a tricky contract renewal for a key client
• Pitch Nestoria to a potential new big client
• Plan an annual marketing campaign for your countries, offline or online (SEM, display advertising etc.). You will have to negotiate, make assumptions, build the forecast and come up with estimates and costs.
• Conduct ongoing research of our marketplace, identifying new partners and potential clients and developing a good knowledge of the industry and our competitors
• Analyse user behaviour to learn more about the needs of our users
• Liaise with our Product Team on both user and client issues and support them when required
• Identify a mysterious problem on our internal metrics report; work with the Product and Engineering teams to resolve it
• Manage our interns. You decide whether you need support or not. If so, you will be managing their workflow, be it for a marketing campaign or a project shared with the Product and Engineering teams
• Work with the team to decide how to build and change our products; and how to build and change our company. This role is not just about business. We welcome proactivity and forward thinking, and are looking for somebody that can contribute to the company in many ways
• In addition you'll always be thinking of creative ways to improve our relationships with our clients and grow client revenue.

We believe this is a great opportunity for someone who:

• Views the tech, internet and marketing industries as an interest, not just as a job
• Could be looking to make the transition from a major internet brand to a much more entrepreneurial environment
• Has some commercial experience, and is looking for a position where they can take greater ownership over their product as well as its success
• Thinks and aims big, enjoys autonomy, can take strategic decisions and is not afraid of challenges.

• Have successfully managed and grown a client portfolio
• Are able to communicate fluently in English and French, preferably with additional language skills in German or Italian
• Have assumed primary responsibility for structuring and executing major strategic initiatives – developing work plans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses, and developing final recommendations
• Have gained experience within the online industry, and understand the fundamentals of SEO, SEM and how to grow the audience of a website
• Are really good with MS Excel and all sorts of analytics, reports, metrics and anything that is related to number crunching and business intelligence
• Are confident working with financial information, and communicating it to senior members of the Company
• Have a good track record in sales, preferably in an online environment
• Have experience of negotiating at mid- to top- level within organisations
• Are excited by the diverse challenge of growing existing profitable markets, while also launching into new ones

This is a wonderful opportunity to build a career in international account management within a friendly close-knit internet company that offers a successful and expanding service with millions of unique users throughout the world. If you can offer the skills outlined above, we absolutely want to hear from you. Please e-mail your CV, covering note and salary expectations to account-manager@lokku.com. For more information about us please visit Lokku's home page.