VP, Retail Strategy & Business Development

EchoStar

$200K — $300K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in sales management preferred, with a focus on the wireless sector.
  • Minimum of 3 years directorial supervisory experience is necessary.
  • Strong expertise managing large, layered teams; proven leadership abilities required.
  • Exceptional presentation skills for senior executives are essential.
  • Must demonstrate capabilities in change management and adaptability in fast-paced environments.
  • Data-driven leadership style with emotional intelligence and team motivation skills are critical.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and provide guidance to three regional sales teams across the U.S.
  • Drive overall performance for the regions and devise competitive strategies.
  • Act as the executive liaison between senior management, dealers, and sales teams.
  • Direct resource allocation and strategic partner engagement in assigned markets.
  • Gather and relay market insights to help shape corporate strategies and initiatives.
  • Manage sales budget across regions to achieve OKRs and KPIs while ensuring team accountability.
  • Foster relationships with strategic dealers to enhance execution of company objectives.

Benefits

  • Flexible health perks, including FSA and HSA options.
  • 401(k) plan with company match to support retirement savings.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) as part of financial benefits.
  • Career development opportunities to enhance professional growth.
  • Flexible time away plan, promoting work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Job Duties and Responsibilities

High-level job responsibilities:
  • Leads three regional field sales teams across the U.S. and provides overall directional guidance to the Region Directors and their leadership teams.
  • Responsible for the overall performance of assigned markets and regions including competitive strategies for the field sales organization and dealers.
  • Serves as the executive link between the SVP, Boost Sales, dealers and field sales teams.
  • Directs programs, distribution optimization and build planning, and plans and allocates resources to engage and influence regional strategic partners, third-party distributors and dealer teams.
  • Serves as a subject matter expert for Boost Mobile distribution through understanding business needs and designing programs to meet market needs.
  • Provides market insights, customer/dealer feedback, competitive intelligence, and information from any and all competitive sources to the Corporate Team to shape Go-to-Market approaches and address customer and channel needs.
  • Delivers and advises on campaigns and market strategies for dealers, coordinates strategic plans and objectives and is responsible for leading and helping design all tactical execution for company initiatives.
  • Owns overall sales performance for assigned area and all relevant OKRs & KPIs. Responsible for budget attainment and overall management of their 160+ person sales team.


Day-to-day job responsibilities:
  • Owns and manages the sales budget for assigned territory for all OKRs and KPIs.
  • Balances travel to all four assigned regions to ensure sales teams are meeting responsibilities and "leads from the front".
  • Communicates and builds relationships with strategic dealer and distribution partners to align on strategy and execution efforts.
  • Designs and implements tactical execution plans to meet company objectives and key initiatives.
  • Develops and executes market distribution and optimization plans, with a thorough understanding of competitive positioning.
  • Performance management of sales teams and responsibility for all team member development.
  • Works directly with Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Finance teams to provide unified campaigns, special offers and execution support to the field.
  • Serves as the executive point of contact for all dealers and distributors in assigned territory.
  • Conducts regularly scheduled dealer business reviews and strategic planning sessions for all strategic dealer principals within assigned territory.
  • Conducts operations reviews and one-on-ones with sales teams across assigned territory.

Skills, Experience and Requirements

High-level qualifications:
  • Proven executive-level experience managing a large team with multiple management layers.
  • Displays confidence and aptitude, with extensive experience presenting to senior executives, both internal and external.
  • Must be a change management agent who is comfortable working in a fast-paced sales environment and has the ability to pivot quickly.
  • Is a culture catalyst that can inspire large teams to meet company objectives, while keeping the teams engaged and motivated.
  • Is a leader who uses data to drive behavior and is comfortable working cross-functionally with leaders from multiple business units across the organization to accomplish complex goals and initiatives. Is a "field general"; someone who is vocal, visible and has a high degree of emotional intelligence.
  • The most qualified candidate is someone who understands how to drive a culture of accountability, while also being an empathetic leader.


Specific qualifications:
  • Must have a valid driver's license, three years of active driving history, successfully completed driver's safety training, and otherwise comply with DISH's Driver Safety Policy and guidelines.
  • Bachelor's degree and ten years of related work experience or fourteen years of sales management experience.
  • Minimum seven years of supervisory experience at the Manager level.
  • Minimum three years of supervisory management experience at the Director level.
  • Ten years of account management/support experience.
  • Ten years of direct or indirect sales experience.
  • Five years selling wireless products or services.
  • Five years of contract or vendor relationship experience.
  • Ability to travel across assigned territory at a minimum of two and a half weeks per month.

Salary Ranges

Compensation: $200,000.00/Year - $300,000.00/Year
Benefits

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: EchoStar Benefits.

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

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