Regional Sales Director

Role Summary:

As the Regional Sales Director, you will drive the day-to-day and long-term business P&L of your region/team through continuous optimizations and breakthroughs in sales, marketing, analytics, merchandising, and product. You will also be an evangelist—both internally and externally, selling the vision for Groupon Local to strengthen and expand the business. This role will sit on the North America Local Regions Leadership Team and be directly responsible for a team of regional Divisional Sales Managers. This role will initially be focused on the South Central & Mountain region of the United States, though may be subject to change.

Ideal Candidate:

Expected to have a deep understanding of company and regional financial performance, establishing and communicating your regional strategic priorities, using your expertise of the external competitive landscape to prioritize and time those strategic decisions within your areas. You’ll develop new ways of conducting operations and create and define solutions that have a wider impact than your region, sharing knowledge, lessons learned, and best practices with your peers and directs.

Key Responsibilities:

1. The Business Performance of your region against its defined supply input metrics.
2. Engagement of the teams (employee feedback scores, attrition rates, resourcing).
3. Establishing a high-performance culture with clear development and succession plans in place for the team.
4. Leadership & representation of the teams in cross-functional collaborations that drive and support the key deliverables.
5. Contributing to the shaping and delivery of the Sales Operational Plan and OKRs.
6. Coaching & mentoring regional divisional sales managers and sales reps.
7. Establishing short- and long-range objectives and criteria for monitoring progress and measuring success.
8. Understanding the financial expectations of the business to deliver/exceed against agreed targets.
9. Developing the sales strategy and tactics for growth.
10. Developing, sharing, and adopting best practice ways of working to maximize business outputs for your region.
11. Ensuring you are meeting or exceeding the Input Metric benchmarks for your region focused on Supply and Supply Quality.
12. Setting and managing to performance standards and management routines to ensure key business input metrics are being met.
13. Setting goals for your region and cross-functional team & regularly reviewing performance and coaching and guiding your team to achieve against those goals.
14. Be the inspirational figurehead for your region - being the trusted leader that is guiding the growth of your region and your teams.
15. As a Leader, support in shaping the strategic direction of the sales organization to achieve its vision and contribute to the development of the organization’s strategic and annual business plans.

Experience:

1. 7+ years of extensive experience leading Sales Teams and Sales Managers.
2. Experience in leading by influence in matrixed organizations.
3. Experience leading big teams (4-6 direct reports DSM level, 12 REPs each, above 50 employees in total).

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