Market Manager
General Sales Manager
Elmira, NY
Why is this a great opportunity?
8 Radio Brands
30+ Digital Marketing Products
A Stacked Creative Team
A Fantastic
Work/Life Balance
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Market Manager Details
Elevate Your Career in Media Leadership
7 Mountains Media, a dynamic and innovative media company in Elmira NY, is seeking an exceptional Market Manager to lead our team to new heights. We're not just looking for someone to manage; we're searching for a visionary leader who can drive revenue growth,
foster a culture of excellence, and position our brands for continued success.
As our Market Manager, you'll have the exciting opportunity to oversee all aspects of our Elmira, NY market operations. This includes strategic planning, revenue generation, team leadership, and operational management. You'll be the driving force behind our radio, digital, and creative service offerings, ensuring we deliver exceptional value to our clients and listeners.
- Strategic Vision: Develop and execute comprehensive strategies to maximize revenue across all platforms - radio, digital, and creative services.
- Sales Leadership: Lead, inspire, and coach a high-performing sales team to exceed revenue targets and achieve individual and team goals.
- Operational Excellence: Oversee daily operations, including budgeting, forecasting, inventory management, and resource allocation.
- Client Relationships: Cultivate strong relationships with key clients and agencies, ensuring their needs are met and opportunities for growth are explored.
- Market Intelligence: Stay ahead of industry trends, competitor activity, and emerging technologies to identify new business opportunities and maintain a competitive edge.
- Community Engagement: Represent 7 Mountains Media in the community, building strong relationships with local businesses, organizations, and listeners.
- Proven Leadership: A track record of success in leading and motivating teams to achieve outstanding results.
- Media Sales Expertise: 5+ years of experience in media sales management, with a deep understanding of radio, digital, and creative service offerings.
- Strategic Thinking: The ability to develop and implement innovative strategies that drive revenue growth and market share.
- Financial Acumen: Strong financial management skills, including budgeting, forecasting, and P&L analysis.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with clients, team members, and community stakeholders.
- Passion for Media: A genuine enthusiasm for the media industry and a commitment to delivering exceptional content and services.
If you're a dynamic, results-oriented leader with a passion for media, we encourage you to apply. 7 Mountains Media offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, along with opportunities for professional growth and development.
Submit your resume and cover letter to [email protected] for consideration.
Join us and make your mark on the vibrant Elmira, NY media landscape! 7MM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
GSM 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!
How to Apply
Submit your resume and cover letter to [email protected] for consideration.
Join us and make your mark on the vibrant Elmira, NY media landscape! 7MM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
