Vice President of Woodward Community Media
Vice President of Woodward Community Media
Do you find purpose in helping others achieve success?
In this role, you will have many opportunities in which to do so.
- Employee owners will look to you to provide strategic direction, give them the information they need to be successful, and then empower them to think independently to serve our customers in the best way they know how.
- Businesses will look to you to provide avenues in which to connect with their customers and community.
- Communities will look to you to provide relevant content to keep them informed and to actively engage in a leadership role within the communities you serve.
Success will be achieved by actively engaging with employee-owners at multiple locations and by developing relationships with business and community leaders alike.
While we would ideally like a candidate to have experience in the newspaper or publishing industry, the leadership skills that the candidate possesses is just as important, if not more important, for this position. Individuals who have experience related to our current products and services, as well as demonstrated success leading in a disrupted industry, will be considered.
Top candidates will be able to demonstrate experience in the following areas:
- Building relationships with employee owners
- Actively engaging in the communities you serve
- Strategic, but agile, mindset
- Product development and branding in various channels
- Emotional intelligence
- Holding others accountable in a constructive, meaningful way and being accountable to others
- Financial literacy
- Leading in a transparent, open-book management environment
- Communicating in a clear and concise manner
- Actively listening
- Managing multiple locations
- Trusting and supporting your employee owners
- Developing your employee owners
- Continuous learning
This position reports directly to the President and CEO of Woodward Communications, Inc. and serves on the Executive Leadership Team of WCI.
Woodward Communications, Inc. (WCI) offers an employee-centric culture supported at the foundation by our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Woodward Community Media is a division of WCI, which is headquartered in beautiful Dubuque, Iowa, nestled on the Mississippi River in the corner of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois.