Love everything Cubs? Marquee Sports Network has an exciting opportunity for a talented General Manager to lead this new Cubs only network. This is not a desk job! The successful candidate meets or exceeds objectives in the areas of operations, employee and cultural leadership by leveraging internal and external relationships to execute a strategic business plan.
Primary Accomplishments of the role:
- Create A "Winning Culture" Within the Station and Local Market
- Revenue and Profitability Growth in Alignment with Sinclair's Goals
- Effective Sports/Content, Promotions, and Audience Growth Strategy Across All Platforms
- Well-developed, High Performing Leadership Team
- Strong Internal Stakeholder Relationships and External Relationships with Clients and Community Leaders
- Effective Employee Relations
- Effective Market Operations Management
Leadership
- Fully understand digital and Sports marketing channels and recommend ways to leverage appropriately
- Cultivate and maintain key client relationships with internal teams and external clients, vendors, strategic partners and community leaders
- Provide the vision, inspiration and leadership necessary to drive success; mentor teams and direct reports to thrive in their respective roles
- Formulate and advocate a people management strategy and high-performance culture which includes recruitment, development and retention of top talent
- Provide leadership and strategic direction of all digital marketing initiatives within local station
- Lead the company's strategic growth plan, including the identification of new market opportunities and/or segments
- Develop and build a marketing plan to increase top- and bottom-line performance of products and services
- Manage complex P&L
- Use detailed analytics and technical capabilities to build audiences, optimize product features and enhance the customer experience
- Monitor the advertising industry in general, digital and sports network specifically, and adjacent industries, and be able to rapidly communicate trends and business opportunities to colleagues and clients
- Demonstrate research capabilities, knowledge of tools and resources, and ability to interpret results
Ideal Experience and Qualifications:
- Experience managing teams of 10+ people
- At least 5 years of strategic market planning, with evidence of increasing share of wallet from major clients
- Proven track record in performance leadership; sales driven with discipline in forecast/budget management; P&L management
- Expertise in content and campaign strategy (including social + website), digital advertising, analytics, 360 campaigns
- Able to balance strategy with strong operational skills - able to understand, streamline and optimize complex, large-scale business processes
- Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
- Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others
Job Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Company Location HR.MARQUEE SPORTS NET****.CHICAGO.CHICAGO.IL Position Type Full-Time/Regular
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