iHeartMedia

VP of Sales, Team Accelerate

iHeartMedia$140K — $175K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of broadcasting, marketing, and promotion
  • Proven ability to grow new business revenue
  • 3+ years experience as an Account Executive or Sales Manager in media
  • Excellent leadership and coaching abilities
  • Deep understanding of local markets and customers

Responsibilities

  • Manage local Account Executives to achieve revenue goals
  • Oversee advertising sales activities and control sales expenses
  • Drive team performance and hold members accountable
  • Translate business strategies into actionable sales plans
  • Recruit and train Account Executives for ongoing development

Benefits

  • Employer sponsored medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Life insurance options provided
  • Paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays
  • 401K plan with employer matching
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with telephonic counseling and financial consultation
Full Job Description
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What We Need:
Ready to shape the next generation of iHeart sellers? Team Accelerate is looking for a dynamic sales leader to lead the charge. We're accelerating the next generation of iHeart sellers and looking for a bold sales leader to take them further, faster & WIN.

What You'll Do:
  • Manage local Account Executives with goal of meeting/exceeding station revenue, prospecting and new business targets
  • Oversee advertising sales activities in assigned market; is accountable for achieving/ exceeding targeted advertising sales revenues for the market and for controlling sales expenses
  • Drive results through others, manage team performance and hold team accountable against business metrics
  • Translate market and station business strategies into specific actions to generate sales and revenue
  • Direct sales activities and processes that generate new business and deepen existing relationships
  • Set sales goals and guide subsequent goal-setting processes
  • Prepare budgets and revenue forecasts
  • Obtain, allocate and adjust operations resources to achieve sales and service goals
  • Oversee management of available advertising inventory to drive most profitable sales
  • Meet with key accounts
  • Recruit, hire and ensure ongoing training and development of Account Executives
  • Go on sales calls and conduct in-field coaching to develop Account Executives
  • Review and adjust sales territories, product mix targets and assigned call lists
  • Direct other functions such as marketing, advertising, production, traffic and sales operations


What You'll Need:
  • Strong understanding of broadcasting, marketing, promotion, and collection standards
  • Proven ability to grow new business and find new revenue opportunities
  • Excellent leadership and coaching ability; can successfully coach others in sales practices
  • Deep understanding of local markets, customers, and competitors in order to target needs and drive sales
  • Ability to create productive, long-term customer relationships
  • Scrappiness to be an entrepreneurial self-starter
  • Excellent decision-making skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
  • 3+ years' experience as an Account Executive or Sales Manager in media industry with proven track record of success
  • College degree preferred, but not required


What You'll Bring:
  • Respect for others and a strong belief that others should do this in return
  • Accountability for sales results
  • Understanding of the business and how own area integrates with others to achieve sales goals
  • Strong understanding of broadcast, marketing, promotion and collection standards
  • Judgement to resolve customer and employee operational problems; critical thinking skills to understand the broader impact across the organization
  • Leadership skills to increase performance of the sales organization
  • Communication skills to succinctly convey information, set performance expectations and handle sensitive issues
  • Active listening skills with the ability to guide and influence others to adopt a broader point of view
  • Positive energy and the ability to manage stress and serve as a model for others in the sales practice
  • Skills to successfully coach and develop sellers
  • Comfort interacting with individuals of all levels


Compensation:

Salary to be determined by multiple factors including but not limited to relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and alignment with market data.

$140,000 - $175,000

Location:
New York, NY: 125 West 55th Street, 10019

Position Type:
Regular

Time Type:
Full time

Pay Type:
Salaried

Benefits:

iHeartMedia's benefits offering is flexible and offers a variety of choices to meet the diverse needs of our changing workforce, including the following:
  • Employer sponsored medical, dental and vision with a variety of coverage options
  • Company provided and supplemental life insurance
  • Paid vacation and sick time
  • Paid company holidays
  • A Spirit day to encourage and allow our employees to more easily volunteer in their community
  • A 401K plan
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost - services include telephonic counseling sessions, consultation on legal and financial matters, emotional well-being, family and caregiving
  • A range of additional voluntary programs, such as spending accounts, student loan refinancing, accident insurance and more!


We are accepting applications for this role on an ongoing basis.

About iHeartMedia

iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc., a company founded by Lowry Mays and B. J. "Red" McCombs in 1972, and later taken private by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners through a leveraged buyout in 2008. As a result of this buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., began to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings, Inc. On September 16, 2014, CC Media Holdings, Inc. was rebranded iHeartMedia, Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, Inc., became iHeartCommunications, Inc.
Learn more about iHeartMedia
Size
4,600 employees
Market Cap
$912.4 million
Industry
Net Income
-$1.9 billion
Founded
1972
5 Year Trend
-10.7%
Revenue
$2.9 billion
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