Director, Verizon Emergency Response

Company: Verizon
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: May 13, 2020

Job Description:

What you'll be doing... The Verizon Response Team (VRT) is responsible for developing strategies that leverage Verizon Response assets, capabilities, and crisis support to strengthen Verizon's position with Public Sector agencies and strategic business customers. The team builds partnerships internally and externally to defend and grow our public safety customer base and positively impact our communities. Through a differentiated customer engagement model, the team delivers customer support throughout disaster planning, response, recovery, and prevention to drive deeper relationships, support revenue growth initiatives, and reinforce Verizon's commitment to public safety.As Director of the VRT, you will be responsible for elevating the team's impact, increasing customer engagement to drive a differentiated value proposition that unlocks growth opportunities, strengthens customer relationships, and delivers greater societal impact. You will develop strategies that leverage the VRT assets, capabilities, and crisis support to elevate engagement levels at Federal, State, County, Major City, Emergency Management Agencies, and with strategic customers to defend and grow business for the Verizon Business Group. You will engage at the executive level within customers and agencies to strengthen relationships and assist the sales teams on key initiatives to defend & grow accounts, drive incremental revenue, and elevate customer engagement. You will represent Verizon in community engagements with high-level officials to build relationships that remove obstacles for sales engagement, enable more effective crisis response efforts, build proactive community engagement to assist in site acquisition efforts, and establish partnerships for end to end Public Safety and Transportation solution engagement. You will lead preparedness and prevention work in partnership with sales, Verizon customers and industry advocates to strengthen Verizon's role in public safety. Build and execute strategy to elevate Verizon's industry perception, including the use of strategic joint trainings, response readiness customer engagements, post event Emergency Management engagement, customer awareness meetings, and disaster response improvement plan co-creation.In addition, you will be responsible for developing internal and external strategies to assist the adoption of Public Safety solutions, promote Verizon's Public Safety strategy, and build an advocacy coalition through effective customer engagement. Leverage relationships established through the VRT engagement to promote adoption of cellular technology for critical communication and create new revenue opportunities for the Verizon sales teams.What we're looking for... Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience10 or more years of experience in emergency management coordination and/or Public Safety experience3-5 years of experience within a law enforcement, emergency management or similar agency7 or more years of experience in a leadership roleIn depth knowledge of concepts of emergency management and applicability to Public Safety and critical infrastructure verticalsStrategic communications experience and/or formal media training, and a demonstrated ability to identify, analyze and evaluate a large volume of information and to communicate effectively to a Public Safety audienceWhen you join Verizon... You'll have the power to go beyond - doing the work that's transforming how people, businesses and things connect with each other. Not only do we provide the fastest and most reliable network for our customers, but we were first to 5G - a quantum leap in connectivity. Our connected solutions are making communities stronger and enabling energy efficiency. Here, you'll have the ability to make an impact and create positive change. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, join our team of the best and brightest. We offer great pay, amazing benefits and opportunity to learn and grow in every role. Together we'll go far.Equal Employment Opportunity We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees' differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. Different makes us better.

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