Sales Manager, SMB

What is the Role? 

As a Director, SMB Sales in Minneapolis at Intersection, you will manage the local sales channel and team to meet and exceed quarterly and annual revenue and profit center growth targets. You should feel comfortable working in a competitive, high energy, fast-paced environment focused on driving results while building a strong culture focused on collaboration, learning and success. You should be enthusiastic, hardworking and have the desire to succeed by continually meeting and exceeding the needs of your customers.

Within your first month:

• Work closely with Regional Lead and Chief Revenue Officer for on-boarding and training
• Learn our media, systems and processes while starting to build relationships with your team
• Meet with Intersection’s internal teams to train cross-functionally with the people that support our sales efforts
• Learn about the book of business of each of your Account Executives and start to make introductions to clients and agency partners
• Set weekly meeting cadence for sales meetings and weekly one-on-one’s

Within your first 6 months:

• Implement effective local market sales strategies to maximize revenue across existing and new business opportunities to ensure target attainment for team
• Regularly attend at least six out of offices client meetings per week with your Account Executives
• Review pipeline, set sales strategy and ensure activity aligns with performance goals in weekly one-on-one meetings
• Review team performance, market strategies and HR related issues with Regional Lead in weekly one on one meetings
• Collaborate with fellow sales managers around the country to implement best practices locally
• Build relationships with key client and agency partners in the market

Within your first year:

• Responsible for exceeding quarterly and annual revenue and profit center growth targets
• Building a winning culture that is collaborative, inclusive, successful and fun for the entire office
• You will implement and create a training curriculum and conduct on-going learning and development sessions for local sales team
• Liaise with executive level managers, transit authority partners, clients, agencies, and local community officials

You’re great for this role because:

• You have proven success in leading, inspiring, developing, and growing media sales teams
• You have an existing network of professional relationships within the Minneapolis area and media community
• You have professional experience selling local media in the Minneapolis area
• You have a demonstrated record of success in a goal-oriented, highly accountable environment
• You have proven success meeting and exceeding advertising sales targets
• You are a self-starter with excellent time management, decision-making skills, strong work ethic, and excellent problem solving skills and decision-making skills
• You have outstanding communication skills; excellent cross-functional collaboration and teamworkYou have a competitive mindset, while also being a team player.
• You are able to travel throughout the region supporting sales calls
• You have outstanding presentation and verbal skills, excellent written communication and exceptional organizational skills.
• You have a positive and professional attitude with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• You have people management experience, including team motivation and building
• Out-of-Home Sales experience is strongly preferred
• You have a BS/BA degree

At Intersection we celebrate every voice that makes us unique and every perspective that makes us grow. It’s our shared responsibility to create an equitable environment where every employee contributes to the culture of the company. Our products and offerings impact cities across the world and it’s our goal to represent the diversity and differences that make cities special. We will be relentless in that pursuit, because together we are better. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status and all other legally protected characteristics.

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