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We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, and we're on the hunt for enthusiastic professionals to join our team! We understand that connectivity isn't just a luxury anymore - it's a necessity that empowers lives, fuels businesses, and drives innovation. A career at Optimum means you'll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected. We owe our success to our amazing product, commitment to our people and the connections we make in every community.
If you are resourceful, collaborative, team-oriented and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is the Company for you!
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Job Summary
To sell full suite of Optimum Business branded products and services, specializing in the small to medium size business segments of the marketplace. The Regional Sales Manager position incorporates the management and development of all Optimum Business Account Executives (AEs) reporting to them, dedicated to the penetration of the SMB (Small to Medium Business) marketplace. The Regional Sales Manager will oversee the sales activity of the AEs throughout the assigned Optimum footprint, ensuring sales and install objectives are met. The Regional Sales Manager will also be responsible for the hiring and development of the AEs.
Responsibilities
Perks of Working for Altice: Salary + commission - Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance available on your first day! - Paid Vacation and Sick Pay - Sales Incentive and Bonus programs - Tuition reimbursement - Significantly discounted TV/Internet/Phone employee product benefit - 401(k) with company matched funds - Top-notch paid training
- The Regional Sales Manager oversees a sales team of approximately 9 to 12 AEs and reports to the Area Sales Director.
- Ensure that sales objectives are met by each individual as well as team objectives.
- Target list of opportunities currently served by competitor(s).
- Responsible for providing key feedback from the field to the Product and Marketing departments on the competition, to respond accordingly to market demands.
- Regional Sales Manager will periodically spot check sales order addresses in the field.
- Ride outs with AEs to observe them in the field, including the completion of observation forms as a means of providing constructive feedback.
- Distribution of all monthly/quarterly opportunities through SFDC to team.
- Effectively communicates feedback from field reconnaissance, makes recommendations on offers and product enhancements due to market demand.
- Objective is to spend 50% or more of their time in the field with direct reports so that through observation regional sales manager can best coach and mentor and provide constructive criticism of sales activity. Field Observation Forms to be completed accurately and in a timely fashion to capture AE activity in field and to record progression and areas for improvement.
- Manager is responsible for all weekly or monthly sales meetings with team as well as any workshops.
Qualifications
- An organizationally perceptive person who will respect the traditions and culture of Altice and who can implement new ideas within that context.
- Ability to maximize the quantity and quality of the Sales staff through creative and ongoing recruiting and employee retention efforts.
- Motivating Others - The position requires strong leadership, as well as motivational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to analyze problems, to probe facts, identify and question assumptions and find creative and effective solutions.
- A strong communicator and team player that can foster collaboration and build consensus across multiple constituencies.
- Core competencies include teamwork, integrity, flexibility, stress tolerance, and commitment to excellence.
- Management of personnel, and multiple tasks.
- Candidate must be able to develop an action plan and ensure all assigned tasks are being completed.
- Broad telecom knowledge and understanding of telecom systems.
- Proficient in Microsoft applications - MS WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint.
- Problem solving.
- Analyze sales results and develop improvement plans.
At Optimum, we're fueled by our four core pillars: Taking Ownership, Upholding Transparency, Creating Community, and Demonstrating Expertise. Our commitment to empowering employees to take responsibility and embrace proactive problem-solving underpins Taking Ownership. Upholding Transparency is at the core of our culture, with open and honest communication fostering trust among our dedicated team and loyal customers. Creating Community is more than a goal; it's our daily commitment to fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation, and positivity. Demonstrating expertise is a promise we uphold through continuous learning and engagement with our customers to consistently deliver top-quality products and services. These pillars not only shape our culture but define Optimum as a place of excellence, trustworthiness, and thriving community, and we invite you to be a part of our journey.
If you have the drive to succeed and are ready to embark on a thrilling career, seize this opportunity today, and join our winning team, so together, we'll shape the future of connectivity.
All job descriptions and required skills, qualifications and responsibilities for a particular position are subject to modification by the Company from time to time, in the Company's discretion based on business necessity.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds regardless of gender, race, color, creed, national origin, religion, age, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
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Pay is competitive and based on a number of job-related factors, including skills and experience. The starting pay rate/range at time of hire for this position in the posted location is $84,583.00 - $138,958.00 / year. The rate/range provided herein is the anticipated pay at the time of hire, and does not reflect future job opportunity.
Nearest Major Market: Long Island
Nearest Secondary Market: New York CIty
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What We Do
We are a top broadband communications video services provider in the US utilizing the latest technology. We serve nearly 5 million residential and business customers across 21 states with an advanced portfolio of connectivity services, including Optimum Fiber Internet, Optimum TV and Optimum Mobile.
We also operate Optimum Media, an advanced advertising and data business, which provides audience-based, multiscreen advertising solutions to local, regional, and national businesses and clients, as well as hyper-local and international news networks through its News 12 and i24NEWS brands.
New to our portfolio is Juice Media. Juice is an emerging outcome focused, omni-channel customer acquisition platform.
Central to how our company operates is the idea of reinvention - fearless reinvention. And to meet the needs of our customers, we have built a company and team that is equipped to deliver on the Optimum promise and one that is reflective of the many diverse communities we serve. Optimum employees are driven, innovative, and know how to lean in and use their voices to challenge ideas and celebrate one another, understanding how they, as individuals, impact the greater team and our customers for the better.
Why Work With Us
Optimum is part of a family of brands under Altice USA covering the telecommunications, news, media and advertising spaces. There is overlap across all of our businesses and some roles offer the opportunity to support multiple brands!
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