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As an Associate Director - Inside Sales for Verizon Connect, you'll build, develop, and lead an outstanding team of high-performing sales professionals. With your expert leads, you'll motivate and empower your sales team to deliver outstanding customer service and solutions to small and medium-sized customers to make their businesses run better, faster, and smarter. With your ongoing mentorship and development, you’ll drive the sales performance of your team.- Enabling your team to deliver best-in-class customer service.
- Leading, developing, and tracking your team’s performance.
- Developing and implementing strategies to expand our existing client base.
- Modeling effective sales strategies for your team to follow.
- Tracking and reporting key financial, budget, and sales metrics.
Where you’ll be working:
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.
What we’re looking for...
You’ll need to have:
- Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience
- Six or more years of relevant work experience
- Experience Managing sales teams
Even better if you have one or more of the following:
- Previous experience selling into large accounts
- Telematics sales experience
- 3+ years of B2B sales experience
- Experience meeting or exceeding challenging sales targets
- Experience leading a high-performing sales team (ideally, in a commissions-based environment)
- Experience crafting compelling sales proposals, business cases, and value propositions
Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.
Benefits and CompensationOur benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.
The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is a commission based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.The annual salary range for the Illinois location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $90,500.00 - $157,300.00.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience
- Six or more years of relevant work experience
- Experience managing sales teams
- Experience selling into large accounts
- Telematics sales experience
- Three or more years of B2B sales experience
- Experience meeting or exceeding challenging sales targets
- Experience leading a high-performing sales team, ideally in a commissions-based environment
- Experience crafting sales proposals, business cases, and value propositions
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Fairness and competitiveness of pay are highlighted through statements such as “pay is good,” “pays very well,” and “the compensation at VZ is very competitive.” High earning potential is also described for certain roles, including base pay plus commissions and bonuses.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision with before-tax contributions and preventive-care credits. Increased HSA contributions and multiple plan options further reinforce the perceived strength of health benefits.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as robust, including a strong 401(k) match, pension eligibility for some groups, and additional financial protections like life and long-term disability coverage. Union contract updates also point to pension increases and retirement security improvements.
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