Reports to: Ownership
Location: New Mexico and Southwest Colorado
Position Type: Full-Time Executive Leadership
To apply, send your resume and cover letter to [email protected]
Hutton Broadcasting is seeking a proven executive leader to serve as Vice President / Regional Manager for its regional multimedia operations.
Hutton Broadcasting is a family-owned media company operating 15 radio stations and complementary digital marketing, video production, publishing, indoor digital display, content, engineering, and administrative operations across New Mexico and Southwest Colorado. The company currently operates across Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Farmington, Durango, and Cortez.
The Vice President / Regional Manager will serve as the company’s senior day-to-day operating executive, with responsibility for financial performance, revenue growth, organizational effectiveness, personnel leadership, and execution of the company’s strategic priorities.
This executive will have the authority to evaluate the existing organization, establish an effective management structure, assign reporting relationships, develop leaders, and allocate resources within the strategic and financial parameters established by ownership.
The objective of the position is to build and operate a high-performing organization that allows ownership to focus on governance, long-term strategy, capital allocation, investments, and acquisitions rather than daily management.
- Provide executive leadership across all company markets, stations, departments, employees, and media platforms.
- Assume accountability for revenue, expenses, EBITDA, cash flow, budgeting, forecasting, and overall financial performance.
- Develop and execute annual operating plans that support ownership’s strategic objectives.
- Evaluate the existing organizational structure and implement appropriate reporting relationships, leadership roles, staffing levels, and accountability systems.
- Recruit, develop, evaluate, and retain an effective management team.
- Build a sales-focused culture with clear goals for prospecting, new business, renewals, client retention, pricing discipline, and revenue growth.
- Integrate radio, digital services, video production, publishing, indoor digital displays, marketing, and content into a coordinated multimedia strategy.
- Improve productivity, operating efficiency, internal communication, and cross-departmental collaboration.
- Oversee financial controls, billing, collections, traffic, administration, engineering, technology, regulatory compliance, and risk management.
- Maintain productive relationships with major advertisers, community leaders, government representatives, vendors, and industry partners.
- Provide ownership with accurate financial reporting, forecasts, strategic recommendations, and timely identification of significant risks and opportunities.
- Ensure routine operating and personnel decisions are made at the management level rather than deferred to ownership.
The Vice President / Regional Manager will have broad authority to:
- Determine the most effective organizational and management structure.
- Establish or modify reporting relationships and departmental responsibilities.
- Hire, evaluate, develop, reorganize, discipline, and terminate employees.
- Establish performance goals, operating standards, and accountability measures.
- Allocate approved operating resources.
- Set pricing, sales policies, business procedures, and management expectations within approved parameters.
- Negotiate and approve routine contracts and operating commitments within delegated authority.
- Implement the company’s approved strategic plan and annual budget.
Ownership will retain approval over annual budgets, major capital expenditures, debt and financing, banking relationships, acquisitions, divestitures, real estate, material executive compensation changes, and decisions affecting ownership structure or long-term enterprise risk.
Success will be measured by:
- Revenue, EBITDA, cash flow, and expense performance.
- Sales productivity, new-business growth, and client retention.
- Growth of digital and multimedia revenue.
- Quality and effectiveness of the management structure.
- Employee productivity, accountability, development, and retention.
- Operational reliability and regulatory compliance.
- Successful execution of companywide strategic initiatives.
- Reduced dependence on ownership for daily management.
- Protection and growth of the company’s long-term enterprise value.
- Significant executive leadership experience in broadcasting, media, advertising, marketing, or a related industry.
- Demonstrated success leading revenue growth, organizational change, and operational improvement.
- Direct P&L, budgeting, forecasting, and financial-management experience.
- Experience overseeing multiple markets, locations, departments, or business units.
- Strong sales leadership and business-development capabilities.
- Proven ability to evaluate organizational structures and develop effective management teams.
- Strong financial, analytical, communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
- Radio, digital media, multimedia, FCC, engineering, or acquisition experience is preferred.
- Ability and willingness to travel regularly throughout New Mexico and Southwest Colorado.
Ownership will establish the vision and strategic direction. The Vice President / Regional Manager will build the organization, lead the people, execute the strategy, and deliver the results.
