Vice President (General)

Career Area: Business Management and Operations

Occupation Group: General Managers

Salary

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An example would be the 25th percentile, 25 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 75 percent earn more than the estimated wage value. At the 75th percentile, 75 percent of workers employed in that occupation earn less and 25 percent earn more than the estimated wage value.

A typical Vice President (General) earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $122,365

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $130,336

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

A high-level manager at a company of organization. Often reports to the President of the company or organization, and sometimes oversees the entirety of one division, department, or sector.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Vice President (General) is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Building Effective Relationships: Building relationships is about your ability to identify and initiate working relationships and to develop and maintain them in a way that is of mutual benefit to both yourself and the other party. Good relationships are the key to getting things done and are essential when your success is dependent on others.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Business Development: Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.
• Customer Service: Working experience with the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.
• Risk Management: Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks (defined in ISO 31000 as the effect of uncertainty on objectives) followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Vice President (General) that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Stakeholder Management: Working experience of Stakeholder Management, which is a critical component to the successful delivery of any project, programme or activity. A stakeholder is any individual, group or organization that can affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a programme. Stakeholder management creates positive relationships with stakeholders through the appropriate management of their expectations and agreed objectives.
• Risk Assessment: Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative estimate of risk related to a well-defined situation and a recognized threat (also called hazard).
• Articulating Value Propositions: Working experience of Articulating Value Propositions. Value proposition refers to a business or marketing statement that a company uses to summarize why a consumer should buy a product or use a service. This statement convinces a potential consumer that one particular product or service will add more value or better solve a problem than other similar offerings will. Companies use this statement to target customers who will benefit most from using the company's products, and this helps maintain an economic moat.
• Strategic Development: Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Financial Acumen: Maintaining and applying a broad understanding of financial management principles to ensure decisions are fiscally sound and responsible.
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Experience of analyzing a project or company and communicating it's success in terms of the measured performance of activities

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Vice President
• Regional Vice President
• Area Vice President
• Assistant Vice President
• Vice President - Digital Strategy

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