Job Description

Position Overview:

The Vice President of Wireless will be responsible for designing, implementing and launching Ultimate Electronics Wireless strategy. Ideal candidate will have extensive experience with both a multi-unit national retail organization as well as experience with a top Wireless carrier. The focus will be on stores and the guest experience/operations/merchandising/marketing/training and all other aspects of the Wireless experience. The ideal candidate will have a background in the wireless industry plus have worked in a retail organization. Provide leadership to cross-disciplinary teams in executing on the deal strategies.

Job Responsibilities:

· Design, develop and evaluate strategic, financial and economic models supporting the assessment and valuation of potential opportunities.
· Building upon already established relationships with wireless carriers; represent Ultimate Electronics in developing productive relationships with clients and prospects.
· Lead the development of a sales strategy and approach to targeted wireless carrier prospects, and establish the sales process and delivery of our value proposition to each client to meet operational, legal and regulatory requirements.
· Responsible for the implementation of key strategies/policies in respect to sales, marketing, finance, HR, training, legal and customer operations.
· Provides leadership/partnership to the retail markets where we exist in partnership with the head of stores in order to influences employee morale.
· Lead the team to develop individual strategies aligns with corporate strategies ensuring the distribution channels meet company expectations.
· Effectively manage and support the career development of staff to include identifying and developing bench strength, designing development plans, and ongoing succession planning to include job satisfaction and retention.
· Build a customer centric culture.

Key Requirements:

· Must have extensive multi-unit retail/stores background, strong understanding of retail operations that also include CE, Appliances, Movies, Games, PC Solutions.
· Proven ability to create strategies to grow the business and drive revenue, margin, gross profit comp and guest satisfaction.
· Strong wireless training background within a mulit-unit retail environment.
· Proven track record around the development of compensation plans that incent sales partners.
· Strong understanding of merchandising principles including development of plan-o-grams; maintaining inventory levels by location, developing and managing vendor relationships, pricing and promotion/ad planning with Marketing team.
· Ability to hire, develop and retain top talent.
· Proven track record to develop a culture of heavy succession planning and performance management.
Skills

· Bachelor’s degree preferred
· 15+ years experience in the wireless communications industry. Strong knowledge of retail markets and ability to design and implement corporate and field strategies.
· Sense of urgency in completing projects and meeting deadlines.
· Proven leadership experience required.
· Established industry relationships and understanding of emerging market trends and technologies.
· Executive-level leadership managing against P&L goals, budgeting, forecasting and driving results.
Company Description

Ultimate Electronics is a retail leader in the consumer electronics industry corporately based out of Thornton, CO. Ultimate Electronics is recognized for both product selection and exceptional service. We have 34 locations in eleven states across the United States. We believe that through each Partner’s efforts and contributions, we will continue to grow our business while focusing primarily on service and satisfaction of our customers. We empower each Partner to service our customers and focus on our Company’s goal of providing the world’s best customer service experience in the consumer electronics industry.


Apply at www.ultimateelectronics.com Job ID # 952073