Executive Job Description | Vice President End to End Revenue
Alaska Communications Systems (ACS) is a telecommunications firm headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska that operates across most of the state, serving the needs of consumers, businesses and carriers with data, internet, wireless, long distance and local service. ACS is a publicly traded company, trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol ALSK. The leadership team’s credentials, backgrounds and strategic focus are unique to Alaska and have positioned the organization to grow in the sectors of mobility and sophisticated enterprise data, and to continuously improve the customer experience through process improvement.
The company’s wireless capabilities are best in class (built on CDMA EVDO Rev A), delivering the fastest data speeds and greatest coverage in the state. ACS partners with world class carriers in Canada and the Lower 48 for a ubiquitous customer experience.
The company’s enterprise solutions are also distinctive for Alaska. The capabilities are built on Metro Ethernet, MPLS, 2 submarine fiber optic cables to the Pacific Northwest, and remote data storage and hosting in Oregon. Our products and people skills differentiate us in the market place. We are innovative and entrepreneurial in approach; we partner gracefully with others to expand the solution set we bring to customers,
The ACS team is a high performance team, driven by delivering top quality service and continuous process improvement, competing for customer wins and loyalty each day, positioning the firm to deliver superior shareholder returns. If these company attributes are appealing to you, this is the company to join. We invest in people who want growth, challenge, and participation in the shareholder value we create.
Nature of Work and Job Dimensions
This is a critical and high impact role for the company, which has been on a journey of rapid transformation from a legacy, highly regulated telephone company to an entrepreneurial customer-centered organization invested in meeting needs of wireless and enterprise users while continuing to maximize returns from legacy wireline businesses.
The position reports to the CFO and works closely with the COO, VP of IT and the Corporate Controller. The position will lead teams with the following functional areas of responsibility.
•End to end revenue assurance
•Revenue requirements for regulated wireline revenue streams
•Credit, billing and collections
•Bill verification of third party network costs
The position is an indispensable contributor to the Company’s top and bottom line performance as well as an agent to accelerate cash inflows by minimizing order to cash cycles.
Critical performance areas:
•For end to end revenue assurance, the position will drive the creation and maintenance of a comprehensive framework to ensure the integrity, dependability and functionality of all links in the revenue management chain; ensure the revenue assurance function maintains pace with the rapid rate of innovation and change in underlying operations; require excellent prioritization skills and creativity in devising effective revenue assurance solutions; and outstanding interpersonal skills to drive effective partnerships with teams throughout the organization to address existing revenue leakage exposures and to negate the risk of future exposures.
•For revenue requirements for regulated wireline revenue streams the position requires a deep understanding of how to maximize revenue streams in either price cap (preferred) or rate of return or environments.
Prior Education and Experience:
•College degree
•12+ Years of progressive management experience in telecommunications
•Important areas of direct experience include:
oRevenue assurance leadership for wireline and/ or wireless operations
oActively managing regulated revenue streams from traditional wireline business. Specific experience working in a price cap regulated environment preferred
oActive management of credit, billing and collection functions
•Hands on knowledge of Process Improvement
Ideal Leadership Characteristics
•Inspirational leader; action oriented; capable; experienced;
•Highly developed intellectual capacity, strategy skills, negotiation ability
•Comfortable with complex problem solving and timely decision making
•Excellent communicator -oral and written
•Exceptional ability to influence the behavior of others
•Holds high standard of personal values and business performance expectations
FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION PLEASE FORWARD YOUR CURRENT WORD FORMATTED RESUME TO: jane.macrae@acsalaska.com
ALASKA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
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