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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

The VP of Virtual Channel Sales will have full strategy and execution responsibility for the inbound, outbound, ecomm and retention sales channels across Optimum Business Services. This leader will report to the EVP, President of Business Services and ensure the operations are performing to deliver on both gross adds and ROI targets, while establishing a best-in-class customer and employee experience. This leader will be transformation oriented with a strong sense of urgency, perseverance, and open mindedness to lead and drive change.  This role will assess and build the channel’s business case and strategy to ensure the operations are performing to deliver on all financial and CX targets. 

Responsibilities Review and evolve the current sales channels strategy, refine the roadmap, and articulate the strategy for enhancing the business sales channels to both employees and customers  Establish a culture of action, and discipline, with continuous data-driven decision making to ensure the contact center channels collectively deliver and exceed business performance expectations  Assess sales contact center channel strategy, optimizing for ROI and aligning to company short and long term objectives  Create and execute on positioning strategy of contact centers within the business, collaborating with business planning, marketing, product, and digital to deliver plan tactics and performance  Build a coaching culture and lead the creation of effective sales commission plans that are designed to maximize company growth and reward/recognize and retain top performers  With cross functional partners, lead the strategy, assessment, and implementation to ensure the contact centers have best in class tools that ensure a great customer experience and related reporting   Build, engage and mentor a high-performing and highly dispersed team with continued focus on employee experience, ensuring active leadership throughout the contact centers  Operate as strategic yet hands-on, adaptive leader who can reinvent the way things have been done before  Collaborate with marketing on channel specific go-to-market strategies that manage target customer segments most effectively for this sales channel  Create roadmap initiatives to establish net-new customers and develop anti-churn strategies  Establish best practices and processes with current and future customers and create a positive customer experience in partnership with the business implementation team  Regularly assess and maintain a market focus, understanding the competition   Ability to be present in Altice USA Headquarters in Long Island City, NY while also being present in the Optimum field across 21 states; Travel required.  Strong stakeholder partnership across key cross functional leadership roles 

 

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Qualifications Ecomm mechanics and sales channel BA required/MA or MBA preferred   Minimum of 10+ years in sales contact center/virtual sales channel leadership within the telecommunications industry  withindustry with a proven track record of consistent delivery against business plans and targets  Strong experience defining business requirements to drive the right customer experience and translating that to a tech team to implement   Proven ability to collaborate across technology, operations, and marketing teams to optimize and expand product offerings and solutions while driving growth and delivering of customer promise  Strong experience partnering with BPOs  Robust understanding of business/consumer behavior   P&L leadership and mindset with a strong track record of growth and turnaround experience  Proven experience building a winning sales culture across all levels, creating a culture of data-driven decision-making, action, and delivery  Experience managing across a diverse and highly distributed footprint strongly preferred  Proven executive presence, strategic capabilities, effective collaborator, and superior influencing skills  Demonstrated experience developing and providing sound, data-driven guidance and decisions to senior business leadership on sales strategies and performance  Demonstrates influential leadership with authentic motivation capabilities, and proven ability to successfully manage through transformation and change 

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.

 

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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 New York is $178,500.00 - $255,000.00 / year. For other locations, please inquire with your recruiter. The rates/ranges provided herein are the anticipated pay at the time of hire, and do not reflect future job opportunity.