Local Sales Manager

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Job Summary:

Job Responsibilities

• Manages and coaches sales team and holds them accountable against metrics.
• Drives for revenue goal attainment, both quarterly and annually, while reporting revenue projections and forecasts.
• Implements targeted, customer-centric initiatives that drive revenue growth by leveraging appropriate resources and partnering with key stakeholders.
• Develops sales team through recruiting, selecting, and growing exceptional sales talent.
• Develops and facilitates interactive team training sessions focused on core selling skills.
• Leads the strategic development of marketing programs and digital strategies.
• Other projects and duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent combination of education, training, experience, or military experience.

Work Experience

• Three (3) + years of successful business to business (BTB) sales experience required.
• Supervisory experience leading a sales team preferred.
• Media sales experience and understanding of broadcast and internet/digital applications preferred.

Skills

• Coaching the performance of others to help them achieve agreed upon results.
• Has demonstrated ability to make business and staffing decisions while creating positive energy with the team; leads through all circumstances and challenges.
• Has extensive knowledge of sales principles and practices, and an ability to coach others on them.
• Has deep knowledge of media and advertising industry, business cycles, key revenue, and expense drivers.
• Is proficient in Microsoft software applications (i.e., Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint).

Competencies

• Business Perspective:  Using an understanding of business issues, processes, and outcomes to enhance business performance.
• Fostering Communication:  Listening and communicating openly, honestly, and respectfully with different audiences, promoting dialogue and effectively gets message across.
• Inspiring Others:  Energizing and inspiring others to strive for excellence and commit to common goals and purposes, creating a sense of self-efficacy, resilience, and persistence in followers.
• Negotiating:  Seeking to resolve different perspectives or matters of dispute by discovering shared interests and finding mutually acceptable solutions.
• Performance Management:  Managing employee performance for success where goals are created, competencies are incorporated, and constructive feedback is provided for continuous improvement.
• Planning and Organizing:  Reaching goals that are central to organizational success by making and following plans and allocating resources effectively.
• Revenue and Profitability Management:  Managing the revenue stream, using internal (organizational) and external (industry, market) sources of information to achieve the organization's chosen value proposition and maximize profitability.

Physical Demands

The demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Employee must have the ability to sit and/or stand at a desk for a minimum of eight (8) hours a day and complete tasks requiring repetitive use of hands.

• Employee must have the ability to lift and move items up to 15 pounds.
• Employee must have the ability to see written documents and computer screens, and to adjust focus.
• This job is performed in a temperature-controlled office environment.

Other Requirements

• Able to travel outside of the office 50% of the time for client meetings, corporate meetings, and industry events.
• Possess a valid driver’s license.
• Access to a reliable vehicle

Location

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The Company is an equal opportunity employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.

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