Director of Local Sales, Airports

About the role

Current employees and contingent workers click here to apply and search by the Job Posting Title. Clear Channel Outdoor

Job Summary

The Director of Local Sales, Airports leads a team of Account Executives and Sales Managers responsible for driving advertising revenue across a national portfolio of airport markets. This role is accountable for revenue growth, market development, seller performance, and business development strategy.

The Director partners cross-functionally with Revenue Management, Business Operations, and Sales Leadership to improve pricing, inventory utilization, forecasting, pipeline visibility, and overall portfolio performance. This position also plays a key role in advancing sales enablement, AI adoption, automation, and data-driven decision-making to accelerate growth and improve seller productivity.

Job Responsibilities

Drives revenue growth and market performance by developing and executing strategies that increase advertiser investment, maximize revenue opportunities, and expand business across priority and emerging airport markets. Leads revenue optimization initiatives in partnership with Revenue Management and Business Operations to improve pricing strategy, inventory utilization, occupancy, yield performance, and overall portfolio results.

Develops scalable prospecting and business development programs using sales intelligence, AI, and market research tools to identify new revenue opportunities, sponsorships, target verticals, and repeatable growth strategies. Champions sales enablement, AI adoption, and process improvement by implementing technology, automation, and best practices that increase seller productivity, pipeline generation, and operational efficiency.

Provides executive-level revenue visibility and analytics through forecasting, performance reporting, pipeline management, dashboards, and actionable insights that support strategic decision-making and accountability Lead Account Executives to exceed local and national sales quotas, maximizing airport advertising revenue. Travels with Account Executives for training, coaching, and high-level client meetings.

Hires, selects, manages, coaches, and develops their sales team, holds them accountable against metrics and customer expectations, provides recognition and performance feedback by maximizing individual's talents. Job Qualifications Education and Certifications Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent combination of education, training, experience, or military experience.

• Work Experience Five (5) + years business to business (BTB) sales experience required.
• Three (3) + years' experience leading a sales team required.
• Media sales experience and understanding of broadcast and internet/digital applications preferred.
• Skills Proficient in Microsoft software applications (i.e., Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint).

• Extensive knowledge of sales principles and practices, and an ability to coach others on them.
• Deep knowledge of media and advertising industry, business cycles, key revenue, and expense drivers.
• Deep and broad business acumen with strong analytical, decision making and critical thinking skills.

• Demonstrated leadership experience in large sales organizations, including experience building and developing a team of sales professionals.
• Competencies Achievement Orientation: Focusing efforts on meeting challenges and achieving high quality results consistent with the organization's goals.
• Business Perspective: Using an understanding of business issues, processes, and outcomes to enhance business performance.

Ensuring Accountability: Holding yourself and others to high standards of accountability and creating an infrastructure and transparent corporate culture that supports and measures personal and organizational responsibility, urgency, and accountability. Initiative: Dealing with situations and issues proactively and persistently, seizing opportunities that arise.

Inspiring Others: Energizing and inspiring others to strive for excellence and commit to common goals and purposes, creating a sense of self-efficacy, resilience, and persistence in followers. Negotiation: Seeking to resolve different perspectives or matters of dispute by discovering shared interests and finding mutually acceptable solutions.

• Planning and Organizing: Reaching goals by making and following plans, setting, and sticking to priorities and allocating resources effectively.
• Team Leadership: Assuming a leadership role in helping others achieve excellent results.
• Physical Demands The demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Employee must have the ability to sit and/or stand at a desk for a minimum of eight (8) hours a day and complete tasks requiring repetitive use of hands.
• Employee must have the ability to lift and move items up to 15 pounds.
• Employee must have the ability to see written documents and computer screens, and to adjust focus.
• This job is performed in a temperature-controlled office environment.

• Other Requirements Must be able to travel outside of the office approximately 50% of the time.
• Has a valid driver's license Access to a reliable vehicle.
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