Sales Manager, Gulf

Sales Manager, Gulf - Reuters Professional

We envisage the successful candidate being based in Dubai, UAE.

Want to accelerate your media sales career and represent the leading global news provider across the Gulf? Want to use and leverage your knowledge of and connections across the Middle East to deliver custom branded content with one of the most trusted sources of news worldwide? This might be the role for you.

Reuters are looking for a Sales Manager to expand our footprint into the Gulf region selling event sponsorships, custom branded content and digital media solutions.

Selling across Reuters’ extensive award-winning platforms (including digital display, native, mobile, video, account-based marketing, custom content, and event sales), you'll work with clients within the Gulf regional government, energy, finance and technology sectors. The role is primarily responsible for developing, managing and expanding Reuters Professional's client base in the above sectors which requires a skilled hand both from a business development and a sales perspective.

Reuters Professional is the definitive destination for global intelligence that powers smart decision-making. Led by Reuters award-winning newsroom, it is a unified offering that gives professionals global news coverage, agenda-setting financial commentary and industry-leading events, through essential services such as Reuters.com, the Reuters News app and Reuters Events. Our mission is to be the premier source of news for global professionals. We combine technology and editorial innovation across Reuters.com, Reuters Plus and Reuters Events to deliver a powerful experience to over 97 million monthly users on the web, mobile and events and create custom branded content to assist our clients with their branding needs.

This is a great time to join our growing commercial team and is a chance to represent a very iconic, highly trusted brand in the news, media and publishing space as we expand our international portfolio.

About The Role

As Gulf Sales Manager at Reuters, you will:

• Be consultative with your clients, matching most appropriate solutions to their business development, thought-leadership, lead-generation and client engagement objectives
• Enjoy learning about new markets and staying up to date with industry trends (think current affairs, technological developments and changes across industries).
• Work closely and collaborate with our media planning and global conference production team to establish the best audiences and maximize the success of our conferences and events.
• High volume of weekly meetings with prospective agency/ client stakeholders; presenting Reuters and ensuring a solid understanding of account strategy and challenges.
• Work in conjunction with the research team, presenting research and insights that highlights Reuters strength versus the competitive set across the Middle East.
• Collaborate with the Integrated Marketing team and Digital Sales Planner, develop proposals that align the advertiser’s strategy with our Content Marketing and Reuters.com offering.
• Win business across new and emerging platforms.
• Report to the Head of EMEA & APAC, working closely with the Global Head of Events, developing a quarterly plan for target accounts, associated agencies, and revenue projections.
• Maintain a high level of visibility at industry events and build strong relationships with clients to achieve quarterly and annual revenue targets.
  
  
  

About You

As Sales Manager, Gulf, you will likely have:

• Demonstrable experience and success in selling multimedia, custom content led solutions and/or events to international clients.
• A passion for news and journalism and trusted content.
• Existing relationships across the Gulf. If you have any experience of working with Gulf-based government bodies, we'd love to hear more about this on your CV.
• Proven success in selling large value deals to clients directly, with the ability to work with both end users and their associated marketing agencies.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills. We're looking for someone who's comfortable representing the Reuters brand when engaging with other industry-leading businesses.
• A collaborative attitude. We're team players at Reuters Professional and are looking for someone who can succeed both individually and within a team-based environment.
• The desire to progress and develop your skills further. We have an excellent (uncapped!) commission scheme that rewards your achievements and are keen to grow and invest in our sales team.
• The ability to adapt to changes in markets and articulate potential solutions to a range of stakeholders over the phone, in person and on video calls.
• Strong understanding of the online advertising market and a view on future trends.
• Are a self-starter, self-motivated, capable of delivering on goals with minimum supervision.
  
  
  

Please Note: Complete applications must be submitted by 23:59 on Thursday 30th October 2025. Early applications are encouraged.

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
  
  
  

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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