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Inside Sales Rep – Education Solutions

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Hoffman Estates, IL

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Sales

🗓️ July 29th, 2025

K-12

Edtech.com's Summary

Scholastic Corporation is hiring an Inside Sales Representative for its Education Solutions team. The role involves collaborating with Outside Account Executives to maintain and grow business within assigned territories by engaging customers through multiple communication channels and promoting Scholastic's literacy products to support school and district initiatives.

Highlights
  • Use phone, mail, email, TEAMS, Google Meets, and join-me presentations for consultative sales.
  • Promote comprehensive literacy solutions aligned with school and district needs.
  • Increase revenue in small and rural school accounts and support larger accounts.
  • Meet sales goals and maintain consistent customer contact rates.
  • Build and sustain a dependable sales pipeline; prepare quotes and proposals.
  • Travel approximately 20% for customer support, conferences, and training.
  • Process digital renewals.
  • Proficiency in Excel, Google Suite, Outlook, and digital presentation tools required.
  • Preferred experience includes K-12 sales or education background and demonstrated sales success, though not mandatory.
  • Full-time, regular position within the Sales job family.

Inside Sales Rep – Education Solutions Full Description

Inside Sales Rep – Education Solutions
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Full time

Job Description:

THE OPPORTUNITY
Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, a leading provider of print and digital instructional materials for pre-K to grade 12, and a producer of educational and entertaining children’s media. The Company creates quality books and ebooks, print and technology-based learning materials and programs, classroom magazines and other products that, in combination, offer schools customized and comprehensive solutions to support children’s learning both at school and at home. The Company also makes quality, affordable books available to all children through school-based book clubs and book fairs. With a 100+ year history of service to schools and families, Scholastic continues to commit to "Open a World of Possible" for all children. Learn more at www.scholastic.com

We seek an Inside Sales Representative to join our Education Solutions team in our Hoffman Estates office. After completing on-site training (3-4 months), our representatives work a hybrid schedule.  A Scholastic Education Solutions Inside Sales Representative collaborates with Outside Account Executives in an assigned territory to maintain the current business and identify new opportunities. 

RESPONSIBILITIES
  • The Inside Sales Representative (ISR) will use phone, mail, email, TEAMS, Google Meets, and join-me presentations as part of a consultative sales effort.  
  • They will discuss comprehensive literacy solutions and how the extensive Scholastic Education product line can support their specific school/district initiatives.
  • The main goal is to increase revenue in small and/or rural school accounts and assist the Outside Account Executive counterparts with efforts supporting larger customer accounts.
  • The ISR is required to meet established sales goals and customer contact rates.
  • The ISR is required to build and maintain a dependable pipeline at all times and create sales quotes and proposals based on customer needs.
  • The ISR will travel approximately 20% to provide customer support and attend educational conferences, corporate-sponsored training, and sales meetings. 
  • Process digital renewals

Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic.

Qualifications

HOW YOU CAN FIT (Qualifications)
Experience and Knowledge
  • A background in K-12 sales or education is preferred, but is not mandatory.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong computer and digital presentation skills, including Excel, Google Suite, and Outlook.
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Experience in Education and/or Inside Sales preferred, but not mandatory
  • Proven track record of generating sales of 2 mm+ + annually preferred, but not mandatory

Time Type:

Full time

Job Type:

Regular

Job Family Group:

Sales

Location Region/State:

Illinois

EEO Statement:

Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.