Director of Home Delivery Operations

  • Full-time

Company Description

Star Tribune Media Company is Minnesota’s largest producer and distributor of news, information and advertising across multiple print and digital platforms, including newspaper, website, mobile, tablet and video formats. The Star Tribune newspaper and StarTribune.com regularly reach more than two-thirds of the adults in the Twin Cities market or more than 1.7 million people. The company has been serving the Minneapolis/Saint Paul market for more than 144 years, providing trusted local and regional news and information produced by the largest force of professional journalists in the state. Star Tribune has more than 1,000 employees.

Job Description

Develop an excellent independent contractor group while establishing an efficient means to ensure consistency in how to engage contractors to grow circulation in their respective territories. This position requires objective and focused attention requiring extensive time in the field to build and maintain respectful business partners throughout the home delivery operation. Key areas of accountability: quality service performance, circulation volume performance, distribution fees and agent plans for areas of growth.

Qualifications

• Ability to provide leadership through significant organizational transformation

• Proven and demonstrated experience working with an independent newspaper operation that is able to drive results

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Resourceful and proactive in fully leveraging knowledge of broader newspaper operations to achieve circulation objectives

• Proactive in determining priorities and logical problem solving skills

• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage several tasks simultaneously     

• Ability to work across multiple department to gather information, incorporate broader thinking to ensure effective decisions are made

Posting Date: December 22, 2014

EOE


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