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Ellucian

Inside Sales Representative | Remote | United States

🇺🇸 Remote - US

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Sales

🗓️ December 24th, 2025

Salesforce SaaS

Edtech.com's Summary

Ellucian is hiring an Inside Sales Representative. The role involves working directly with higher education institutions to modernize campuses and promote Ellucian's platform solutions by leveraging consultative and value selling, managing territory sales forecasts, negotiating deals, and collaborating cross-functionally to meet or exceed sales targets.

Highlights
  • Promote and sell Ellucian's suite of platform solutions to higher education institutions.
  • Leverage existing customer relationships to create and qualify sales pipeline and manage sales forecasts monthly, quarterly, and annually.
  • Develop pricing quotes and proposals tailored to institution needs.
  • Build and maintain relationships with senior-level College and University Administrators using structured consultative selling techniques.
  • Lead negotiation processes on pricing and contract terms, collaborating with legal, finance, solutions consulting, and professional services teams.
  • Work closely with Core Account Executives, Solutions Consultants, and Customer Success to identify and close new and cross-sell opportunities.
  • 1-3 years of successful sales experience required; knowledge of higher education and SaaS preferred.
  • Experience with Salesforce or other Sales CRMs is highly desirable.
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills essential.
  • Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; flexible time off; parental leave; 401k with match; wellness programs; and professional development opportunities.

Inside Sales Representative | Remote | United States Full Description

About Ellucian

Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,800 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

 

Values Rooted in Purpose

 

We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.


About the Opportunity

Inside Sales Representatives (ISRs) work with Higher Education Institutions to modernize their campuses, navigate change, achieve greater insights, and drive greater efficiencies.

 

Reporting to one of our Sales Leaders, the ISR will meet or exceed goals within the assigned territory by promoting and selling our suite of platform solutions using consultative and value selling techniques.

 

The ISR will partner with the Core Account Executive to develop a complete understanding of each institution's needs as they relate to our suite of platform solutions, including each institution's business requirements, internal power structure, incumbent products, price sensitivity, regulatory challenges, etc.

 

Where you will make an impact

 

Territory Planning and Business Development Leverage existing customer relationships to create and qualify pipelineManage monthly/quarterly/annual forecasts of sales opportunitiesDevelop pricing quotes and proposals for institutionsValue Selling Build relationships with existing customers, including senior-level College and University Administrators to generate new opportunities and develop trustImplement a structured and consultative sales process to understand the institutions' objectives. Intelligently articulate the value of our platform solutions to institutions during initial prospecting conversations, discovery calls, and demonstrations.Negotiation and Deal Closure Lead the negotiation process, encompassing pricing and contract terms. Collaborate seamlessly with internal teams, including legal, finance, solutions consulting, and professional services, to ensure smooth deal closure and implementation. Consistently meet or exceed assigned sales quotas and revenue targets.Cross-functional Collaboration Collaborate with the Core Account Executive in your territory, along with Solutions Consultants and Customer Success to identify opportunities, as well as cross-sell opportunities, and progress deals to the point of closing

 

What you will bring

 

1-3 years of successful sales experience. Knowledge of the higher education industry and SaaS is highly desirableExperience with Salesforce or Sales CRMs is highly desirableExceptional communication and relationship building skillsStrong work ethic, self-starter, coachable, humble, with the will to win
What makes #Ellucianlife

Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and visionFlexible time offThrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the futureParental Leave5 charitable days to support the community that supports usTelemedicineWellness Headspace Care (mental health)Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)RethinkCare & Wellthy- caregiver supportDiversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groupsEmployee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the teamWe Foster a learning culture with: Education Assistance ProgramProfessional development opportunities

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