General Sales Manager Opportunity
Elmira, NY
Why is this a great opportunity?
8 Radio Brands
30+ Digital Marketing Products
A Stacked Creative Team
A Fantastic Work/Life Balance
A Place Where Your Career and Life Flourish:
Discover the Finger Lakes
A Place Where Your Career and Life Flourish: Discover the Finger Lakes
Are you seeking the perfect place to grow your career and enjoy a fulfilling life? The Finger Lakes region in upstate New York offers an incredible work-life balance, combining professional opportunities with an enviable lifestyle.
Nestled among 11 pristine lakes, this area is a four-season destination, providing everything from scenic summers to picturesque winters. Whether you want to unwind after work or explore on weekends, the Finger Lakes has it all – and it’s just a short drive from major cities like New York City, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
If outdoor adventure is your thing, you’ll love the abundance of activities. Hike through lush trails, bike through scenic landscapes, or spend your weekends boating, fishing, and exploring some of New York’s most breathtaking state parks. Enjoy the cascading waterfalls of Watkins Glen, gaze across the mighty gorge at Letchworth State Park, or marvel at Taughannock Falls’ 215-foot plunge.
When you live and work here, you’re not just choosing a job – you’re choosing a lifestyle where vibrant community and natural beauty go hand-in-hand. Join us and discover a place where your career thrives, and your personal life does, too.
The Details
Are you looking to take the next big step in your broadcast/digital sales career?
Do you have meaningful experience helping client partners solve problems and take advantage of opportunities? Are you a Leader?
Do you have the aptitude and desire to coach, teach, lead a growing, young team of AEs?
Have you always enjoyed, and do you want to contribute to a positive, fun, meaningful, challenging, rewarding, creative work environment?
Seven Mountains Media creates opportunities and solves problems, connecting LOCAL businesses and partners with our communities by providing world-class strategy and tactics right here in The Twin Tiers…our local market area, Upstate NY and PA!
We are a blend of massive traditional media and cutting edge creative digital assets. With ten different local radio format brands, forty different local signal frequencies and digital audio streams blanketing over 250 square miles, a full array of digital marketing tactics, custom website design, promotional marketing, social media, video tactics, graphic design, and a fully staffed creative services division. We are the Twin Tiers’ media company of the future!
Lead, manage, coach, and develop our local staff of account executives towards the goal of making and exceeding the collective market revenue goals.
- Actively participate in recruiting, hiring, and engaging in training new account executives to ensure constant staff improvement.
- Oversee radio advertising and digital sales activities of our local sales staff.
- Create results through other team members, manage team performance and hold team members accountable to agreed-upon business activity metrics.
- Devise and implement individual action plans helping team members improve and develop, creating a stronger overall team.
- Drive sales results, manage team performance, ensure proper activity conducive with achieving overall budget goals.
- Prepare quarterly revenue forecasts and budgets.
- Meet with key, target, developmental, and new accounts…help staff develop.
- Manage individual account lists to achieve maximum results.
- Work transparently and collaboratively across all departments and within our leadership team building internal trust…exhibit natural leadership skills.
- Maintain the highest levels of integrity, honesty, and transparency in all duties and activities.
- Strong understanding and specific track record in radio broadcasting, marketing, digital marketing, and promotions.
- Experience in, and knowledge of, prospecting, using effective consultative selling principles and techniques with proven ability to grow new business.
- Excellent leadership and coaching ability.
- Strong client service relationship-building skills.
- Ability to plan, organize, set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience in negotiating, closing and the ability to teach the staff.
- Persuasive communication skills; verbal and written proficiency.
- Engaging, curious, upbeat, optimistic, futuristic.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Stress tolerance, especially with tight deadlines and financial pressures.
- Creative, Cooperative, persistent, even-keeled, positive, entrepreneurial
- A 2 - 4-year college degree and/or equivalent is helpful but not required.
We offer a strong salary, plus generous performance bonuses. We offer COMPANY MATCHED Medical, Dental, Eye Care, generous paid vacation and personal time off, PLUS... 401K!
Most importantly, we offer support. We are a team ranging from “Newbies,” completing their first six months, learning their craft, creating their pathway... all the way to “Old-timers,” completing their fourth decade in the business. Our values and practices are centered on TRANSPARENCY and COLLABORATION!
Please email a cover letter and resume, in confidence to:
Dave Donahue
Dave_Donahue@7mountainsmedia.com
