- Location
- Paris Île-de-France France
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Manager
- Department
- Wholesale, Commercial & B2B Sales
- Posted
- Oct 14, 2026
About Groupe Les Échos-Le Parisien
Groupe Les Échos-Le Parisien is a leading French media group, uniting influential titles, events, and services that inform economic, political, cultural, and civic life. As an employer, the Group offers a dynamic environment where journalistic excellence, digital innovation, data, marketing, events, and business expertise converge. Backed by the standards of a major media institution, it values intellectual curiosity, agility, responsibility, and a strong sense of public interest. Employees contribute to trusted brands with national reach while helping shape new formats, audiences, and experiences in a rapidly evolving media landscape.
Groupe Les Échos-Le Parisien is recruiting a Video Business Development Manager on a permanent, full-time basis in Paris. Reporting to the advertising sales division and working closely with Le Parisien’s video newsroom, the role will grow video revenue, develop advertiser and agency relationships, and shape monetizable editorial and brand-content formats.
Role & Responsibilities
- Grow the advertising sales division’s video revenue by identifying new commercial opportunities with advertisers and agencies.
- Accompany sales teams to client meetings, providing video expertise, strengthening the sales pitch and converting opportunities.
- Initiate and lead commercial meetings to expand field coverage and establish video as a key component of Le Parisien’s advertising offer.
- Contribute to developing monetizable video formats aligned with platform usage and advertising-market expectations.
- Immerse in Le Parisien’s editorial identity to identify suitable angles, formats and brand opportunities.
- Design, propose and promote video formats tailored to brand needs, including editorial partnerships, brand content, bespoke campaigns and special operations.
- Strengthen the market visibility and credibility of Le Parisien’s video offer.
- Increase meetings with advertisers and agencies focused on video.
- Structure and expand the catalogue of marketable formats.
- Connect editorial ambitions, commercial expectations and brand needs.
Qualifications
- Established commercial profile with significant experience selling media solutions, video, special operations, brand content or digital offerings.
- Good understanding of video topics, including formats, platform usage, storytelling, brand content, editorial production and monetization.
- Ability to build an offer, present it clearly and adapt it to advertisers’ needs.
- Strong commercial acumen, field orientation and ability to open new accounts or develop existing ones.
- Able to work cross-functionally with commercial, editorial, marketing and production stakeholders.
- Strong interest in current affairs, media, new narrative formats and video usage.
- Commercial development and prospecting.
- Video and digital media expertise.
- Design of advertising offers and bespoke campaigns.
- Persuasiveness in meetings with advertisers and agencies.
- Project-based work in a matrix environment.
- Editorial awareness and understanding of a media brand’s identity.
Skills
Experience
At least 5 years
Workplace
This position is based in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
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Culture
Groupe Les Échos-Le Parisien offers a dynamic, editorially driven workplace where journalistic excellence, innovation, and public-impact storytelling are central to the culture. As an employer, it brings together diverse media, digital, events, and business expertise, encouraging collaboration, agility, and responsibility in a fast-evolving information environment.
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