Regional Manager - Consumer Direct Sales

• Collaborate with the Marketing teams to develop strategies and promotional programs in support of overall agent channel goals.
• Development of new TDS consumer sales channels with a focus on OOT, ILECand/or Cable markets, including, but not limited to:
  • Recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and training new employees.
  • Ensuring new employees are properly permitted with local authorities.
• Ensuring new employees are properly permitted with local authorities.
• Recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and training new employees.
• Manage direct sales teams, referral agent relationships, and direct selling agents. Achieve revenue targets within the bounds of the expense budget. Identify optimal and potentially alternate staffing models to achieve revenue targets.
• Target and pursue prospective consumer partners and agents. Understand the agent’s business objectives and assess their suitability as a TDS agent. Ensure proper on-boarding and product and process training

• 5+ years’ management experience
• Bachelor’s degree OR 4+ years professional work experience.
• Must be able to travel a minimum of 5% annually.
• 5+ years’ experience in sales or marketing

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills including the ability to convincingly persuade others as evidenced in personal interviews and via telephone.
• Due to managing multiple geographically dispersed market, must be willing to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Winning “can-do” attitude and strong work ethic as evidenced by a track record of success in business, education, or extracurricular activities.
• Entrepreneurial mind-set: take ownership in the development of business opportunity, take responsibility for the success of the team, identify, and pursue new revenue opportunities, and persist when faced with difficult challenges presented by internal and external sources.
• Demonstrated history of success in management or experience as in a mentoring role either formal or informal.
• Ability to accomplish goals by securing the support and cooperation of individuals outside your span of control; ability to sell others.
• Demonstrated history of success in telecommunications sales.
• Ability to set goals clearly and effectively and then attain them as evidenced by a track record of setting goals, creating a work plan, establishing a reward, working diligently, measuring performance, adjusting as necessary and then accomplishing the goal.

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