Local Sales Manager - Advertising/Media

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Chicago, IL
Mid level
AdTech • Digital Media • Marketing Tech
The Role
The Local Sales Manager drives revenue by understanding client needs and overseeing a sales team. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, managing sales metrics, growing client relationships, and ensuring client satisfaction while leading strategic marketing initiatives and developing client campaigns.
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Clear Channel Outdoor

Job Summary:

Drives revenue on our assets through a deep understanding of clients’ needs and the local marketplace, coaching and guiding the sales team, and successfully delivering company initiatives.

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.
  • Engages with the National Sales organization and their supporting teams to develop impactful and effective marketing resources.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Access to a reliable vehicle and possess a valid driver’s license.

Location

Chicago, IL: 4000 South Morgan St, 60609

Position Type

Regular

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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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
2,212 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1901

What We Do

Clear Channel Outdoor is one of the world’s largest outdoor advertising companies, reaching people in more than 31 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. This includes 44 of the 50 largest markets in the United States and a growing digital platform that now offers over 1,400 digital billboards across 28 U.S. markets.

Clear Channel Airports is the premier innovator of contemporary display concepts. The Company, a brand division of Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (NYSE: CCO), one of the world's largest outdoor advertising companies, currently operates more than 260 airport programs across the globe and has a presence in 28 of the top 50 U.S. markets with major airports.

We help advertisers create inspiring out-of-home campaigns via traditional and digital formats in roadside, urban, transit and airport environments, on street furniture and at retail near point of sale. We enable brands to engage with people on the move, and are pioneering the integration of out-of-home with mobile and social media to turn awareness and inspiration into engagement and purchase.

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