Windstream Holdings

Sales Director-Uniti Fiber

Windstream Holdings$100K — $130K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years in telecommunications, fiber, or B2B solutions sales.
  • 3+ years in a leadership role managing sales professionals.
  • Proven success in leading sales teams to meet revenue targets.
  • Strong experience in pipeline management and sales execution.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop sales representatives in a designated area.
  • Establish a high-performance culture focused on results.
  • Conduct regular one-on-ones for performance and strategy discussions.
  • Drive new hire onboarding and ensure training completion.
  • Set clear sales expectations and performance standards.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance Plans
  • 401K Plan
  • Health & Flexible Savings Account
  • Life and AD&D, Spousal Life, Child Life Insurance Plans
  • Educational Assistance Plan
Full Job Description
About the Role:

The Sales Director - Uniti Fiber Enterprise, is responsible for leading a team of frontline sales professionals within an assigned market or geographic area. This leader drives sales performance by coaching and developing sellers, establishing clear expectations, reinforcing sales process discipline, and building a high-accountability, high-performance team culture.

The Sales Director is responsible for team execution across all core sales leadership activities, including weekly one-on-ones, onboarding, training assignment and completion, KPI achievement, forecasting accuracy, pipeline health, and overall performance to revenue and productivity goals. This role partners cross-functionally with Sales Engineering, Operations, Marketing, Service Delivery, and other internal stakeholders to improve execution and deliver strong business results.

What You'll Do:
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of frontline sales representatives in an assigned market/area.
  • Establish a strong performance culture centered on accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and results.
  • Conduct regular one-on-ones focused on deal strategy, development planning, activity management, and performance improvement.
  • Drive onboarding for new hires and ensure required training, tools, and process knowledge are assigned and completed.
  • Set and communicate clear expectations for sales activity, performance standards, pipeline management, and KPI achievement.
  • Monitor individual and team performance against quota, productivity, funnel conversion, forecast accuracy, and other key sales metrics.
  • Reinforce disciplined opportunity management, including stage progression, pipeline hygiene, next-step quality, and forecast accuracy.
  • Inspect pipeline regularly to ensure opportunities are progressing appropriately and aligned to sales methodology and expected close dates.
  • Coach representatives on account strategy, prospecting effectiveness, qualification, solution positioning, negotiation, and closing.
  • Partner with Sales Engineering and cross-functional teams to support deal progression, solution alignment, and customer outcomes.
  • Identify performance gaps and create action plans to improve seller execution, consistency, and results.
  • Drive adoption of CRM, reporting tools, dashboards, and required sales processes.
  • Foster a positive, engaged team environment that supports retention, development, recognition, and inclusion.
  • Maintain overall accountability for team results, including revenue growth, pipeline generation, forecast reliability, and seller productivity.
  • Meet and align with customers and prospects and members of the business community.
  • Observe and coach sales team members in face-to-face customer appointments.

Minimum Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • 7+ years of sales experience in telecommunications, fiber, network, connectivity, technology, or related B2B solutions environment.
  • 3+ years of people leadership experience managing quota-carrying sales professionals.
  • Demonstrated success leading frontline sales teams and achieving revenue and performance targets.
  • Experience coaching sellers in pipeline management, forecasting, opportunity strategy, and sales execution.
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise sales practices, KPI management, CRM discipline, and forecast reporting.
  • Proven ability to build accountability while also developing team capability and engagement.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Requirements:
  • Experience in fiber-based enterprise sales, strategic connectivity, managed services, or complex solution selling.
  • Experience leading market-based or regional sales teams.
  • Familiarity with Salesforce or similar CRM and sales performance dashboards.
  • Background working closely with Sales Engineering and operational support teams in a complex sales environment.

Key Competencies
  • Sales coaching and talent development
  • Forecasting and pipeline management
  • Performance management
  • Accountability and execution discipline
  • Leadership presence
  • Communication and influence
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Change management
  • Customer focus
  • Culture building and team engagement

Success Measures
  • Team quota and revenue attainment
  • KPI and productivity achievement
  • Forecast accuracy
  • Pipeline quality, coverage, and progression
  • New hire onboarding effectiveness
  • Training completion and sales readiness
  • Rep development and retention
  • Consistent execution of sales process and management disciplines

Work Environment / Travel
  • Travel within assigned market/region as needed to support customer engagement, field coaching, team meetings, and business priorities.
  • Ability to work across multiple internal teams and systems in a fast-paced sales environment.


Our Benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance Plans
  • 401K Plan
  • Health & Flexible Savings Account
  • Life and AD&D, Spousal Life, Child Life Insurance Plans
  • Educational Assistance Plan


Actual base pay for this job will depend on the candidate's primary work location and other factors, such as relevant skills and experience.

About Windstream Holdings

GCI Communication Corp is a telecommunications corporation operating in Alaska. Through its own facilities and agreements with other providers, GCI provides cable television service, Internet access, wireline and cellular telephone service. It is a subsidiary of Colorado-based company Liberty Broadband, a company affiliated with Liberty Media that also owns a 26% interest in Charter Communications, having been originally acquired by Liberty in 2015.
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