Benchmark Education Company
Educational Sales Consultant - New England
CRM
Edtech.com's Summary
Benchmark Education Company LLC is hiring an Educational Sales Consultant for the New England area. The role requires developing and implementing strategic sales plans to identify opportunities, establish strong customer relationships, manage territory activities using CRM, and effectively present both print and digital educational products to meet or exceed sales goals.
Highlights
- Achieve or surpass sales goals within assigned territory and expense guidelines.
- Develop strategic plans for supplemental, core, and professional development (PD) sales.
- Manage territory using CRM software to track opportunities, contacts, and sales outcomes.
- Generate quotes, support proposals, and evaluate Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
- Demonstrate thorough knowledge of print and digital products and competitor offerings.
- Utilize negotiation and closing skills to secure business.
- Coordinate product training and plan presentations, invitationals, and participate in exhibits and conferences.
- Provide sales forecasts and analyze technology trends affecting business.
- Require strong skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with excellent communication abilities.
- Bachelor’s degree in Education, English, or related field and 3-5 years of sales experience are required; educational publishing experience preferred.
Educational Sales Consultant - New England Full Description
*This position is for the New England area and the ideal candidate would be located in one of the New England states.
Position Purpose:
Develop and implement strategic plans which focus on identifying opportunities that includes responding to customer issues and needs, prospecting, building strong relationships, pre-working activities, working pilots, working exhibits and conferences, and following up on leads.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Achieve or surpass sales goals for territory within expense guidelines.
- Develop strategic plans to identify opportunities for supplemental, core, and PD sales and to win the business.
- Manage the territory by using CRM effectively to enter and track: Opportunities - both supplemental and core, Contacts, Cuts, wins, and losses
- Generate quotes and provide support for proposals as needed including reviewing and evaluating RFPs.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the products, both print and digital, and present products in a variety of settings.
- Demonstrate competitive knowledge and use that information to position and present products to win.
- Effectively utilize resources available such as consultants, promotion, samples, authors, and your manager.
- Provide sales, sampling, and inventory forecasts as requested by the National Sales Manager or the Regional Sales Manager.
- Be willing to embrace change and to analyze and communicate trends that impact current and future business.
- Seek out, understand, and leverage technology trends and needs and communicate those trends and needs to management, editorial, and marketing.
- Demonstrate effective questioning strategies and listening skills to identify customer issues and needs.
- Prospecting and meeting with new and existing New England school customers.
Job Description:
- Utilize negotiation skills and closing techniques to win the business.
- Help plan and coordinate product training with customers and PD staff when appropriate to ensure successful implementation of BEC/NL materials.
- Plan and implement Invitationals/Presentations as needed.
- Attend selected local, national and regional exhibits as requested.
- Follow up on leads from online ads, ads, and exhibits and conferences.
- Review and provide feedback on new marketing materials.
- Participate in weekly sales team conference calls.
- General administrative activities.
- Other projects and responsibilities as assigned.
Job Requirements/Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Education, English or related
- 3 - 5 years of sales experience working for a high-volume, fast-paced company
- A quick learner, able to multi-task
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Strong Word, Excel, PowerPoint skills
- Excellent verbal, written and telephone communication skills
- Professional orientation and demeanor (able to handle and respond to external requests in a timely and courteous manner)
- Proven ability to set priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work calmly under pressure with flexibility (can work long hours)
- Educational publishing experience is preferred
ABOUT BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY
Benchmark Education Company (BEC) is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, with valid and reliable digital assessments that inform instruction. BEC is also a provider of exceptional professional development to educators.
BEC is recognized as a responsive publisher that offers equally rigorous and engaging digital, print, and hybrid learning materials grounded in the Science of Reading research. BEC monitors research outcomes carefully to create effective foundational resources that include strong decoding materials with systematic and explicit instruction and high-quality resources focused on language development and comprehension. BEC's content-rich and authentic texts offer instruction in close reading and analysis, multiple perspectives, and authentic literature while building world knowledge and reflecting the individuality of every student in each diverse classroom.
Family owned and operated for more than 25 years, BEC is committed to partnering with educators to provide the best for all students through resources of exceptional quality, world-class professional learning, and effective and dedicated customer support.
Benchmark Education Publishing (BEC) and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
For further information, visit us at: https://www.benchmarkeducation.com
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