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SVP Sales, Albuquerque

Posted by iHeart Media

03/13/2026

SVP Sales, Albuquerque

If you’re excited about this role but don’t feel your experience aligns perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.  At iHeartMedia we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and are looking for teammates passionate about what we do!

What We Need:

The Senior Vice President of Sales for Albuquerque is a high impact executive responsible for driving revenue strategy, enforcing team accountability, and strengthening iHeartMedia’s competitive position across broadcast, digital, podcasting, and live event platforms. This leader sets the vision for a disciplined, high-performing sales organization; develops and coaches experienced account executives; and drives a strong new business mindset across the team. The ideal candidate is a strategic operator and people-first leader with a proven ability to recruit top talent, elevate performance, and deliver exceptional client outcomes in a fast paced and data driven environment.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead the overall sales strategy and revenue performance for the Albuquerque market, ensuring consistent growth across all iHeartMedia platforms.
  • Build, coach, and hold accountable a team of experienced, high performing account executives, fostering a culture of discipline, ownership, and continuous improvement.
  • Drive a strong new business development engine by coaching AEs on prospecting, pipeline creation, and closing strategies.
  • Recruit, onboard, and develop top sales talent to strengthen the team’s bench and elevate performance.
  • Develop and execute integrated sales plans that align with corporate priorities and leverage iHeart’s full suite of audio, digital, data, and experiential capabilities.
  • Partner closely with Programming, Marketing, and Digital leadership to strengthen brand positioning, audience engagement, and client value.
  • Cultivate senior level relationships with key advertisers, agencies, and strategic partners to expand market share and unlock new revenue opportunities.
  • Use audience insights, category trends, attribution tools, and competitive analysis to guide strategy and improve performance.
  • Oversee forecasting, budgeting, pricing strategy, and expense management to ensure financial discipline and operational excellence.
  • Champion adoption of new products, platforms, and data driven solutions to advance iHeart’s leadership in the audio and digital marketplace.
  • Represent iHeartMedia at industry events, community initiatives, and high visibility client engagements.

Requirements

What You’ll Need:

  • Extensive senior leadership experience in media, advertising, or a related revenue driven industry.
  • Proven success leading and developing experienced, high performing sales teams with measurable impact on revenue growth and market performance.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive team accountability, set clear expectations, and elevate performance.
  • Strong track record of new business development, including coaching teams to prospect, pitch, and close effectively.
  • Experience recruiting, hiring, and retaining top sales talent.
  • Deep understanding of audio, digital, programmatic, and integrated marketing solutions.
  • Strong strategic planning, financial management, and analytical capabilities.
  • Exceptional relationship building skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across a matrixed organization.
  • Skilled at leading through change and fostering a high performance, growth-oriented culture.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and executive level presentation skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast moving environment while maintaining focus on long-term strategy.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.

What You’ll Bring:

  • Respect for others and a strong belief that others should do this in return
  • Accountability for sales results
  • Understanding of the business and how own area integrates with others to achieve sales goals
  • Strong understanding of broadcast, marketing, promotion and collection standards
  • Judgement to resolve customer and employee operational problems; critical thinking skills to understand the broader impact across the organization
  • Leadership skills to increase performance of the sales organization
  • Communication skills to succinctly convey information, set performance expectations and handle sensitive issues
  • Active listening skills with the ability to guide and influence others to adopt a broader point of view
  • Positive energy and the ability to manage stress and serve as a model for others in the sales practice
  • Skills to successfully coach and develop sellers
  • Comfort interacting with individuals of all levels

Apply Today

iHeartMedia’s benefits offering is flexible and offers a variety of choices to meet the diverse needs of our changing workforce, including the following:

  • Employer sponsored medical, dental and vision with a variety of coverage options
  • Company provided and supplemental life insurance
  • Paid vacation and sick time
  • Paid company holidays
  • A Spirit day to encourage and allow our employees to more easily volunteer in their community
  • A 401K plan
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost – services include telephonic counseling sessions, consultation on legal and financial matters, emotional well-being, family and caregiving
  • A range of additional voluntary programs, such as spending accounts, student loan refinancing, accident insurance and more!

We are accepting applications for this role on an ongoing basis.

The Company is an equal opportunity employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.

Non-Compete will be required for certain positions and as allowed by law.

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Deadline: 12/31/2026

This job has been posted by an Equal Employment Opportunity  Employer

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