Bluum
Sales Director – K-12 (Southeast)
CRM
K-12
Edtech.com's Summary
Bluum is hiring a Sales Director – K-12 (Southeast). The Sales Director will build and manage a sales team to grow market share in the educational technology sector, overseeing a geographic territory and fostering relationships with customers and vendors. This role involves mentoring sales professionals, managing budgets, developing account plans, and ensuring the achievement of sales goals.
Highlights
- Lead and mentor a sales team to drive growth in a designated geographic territory
- Manage sales forecasts, operating budgets, and performance metrics
- Resolve complex issues including conflicts, large deals, and customer concerns
- Use CRM, ERP, and Office productivity tools for sales management
- Require at least 4 years of sales management experience and strong communication skills
- Travel to meet team members, customers, and attend regional events
- Preferred experience in education sector sales and technology product sales
- Associate degree or higher preferred
- Demonstrate ethics, servant leadership, and competitive spirit
- Must reside within the assigned sales region
Sales Director – K-12 (Southeast) Full Description
Sales Director – K-12 (Southeast)
Job Category: Sales Education
Requisition Number: SALES001983
Full-Time
Florida, USA
Job Details
Description
Bluum is quickly becoming the biggest name in the educational technology industry, and we are looking for passionate, talented people to help us achieve our vision: enable more access to technology and improve learning outcomes for all students. Bluum is currently seeking a Regional Sales Director. This role plays an important part of our goal to bring technology to students; we are proud to serve thousands of school districts reaching 27 million students in North America.
As a Bluum Sales Director, you are responsible to the success of a geographic territory. You will build, mentor and manage a team of sales professionals with the goal of growing market share.
Responsibilities:
- Safeguard Bluum’s values, customers and reputation
- Drive the growth of your master territory
- Become the guru of your geography and the competition
- Hire, mentor and drive the activity level of sales professionals
- Course-correct struggling team members to success or termination
- Own complicated situations such as conflicts, large deals and customer issues
- Develop an account level plan with every team member
- Keep cadence of one-on-one reviews, team meetings and regional events
- Participate in budget building and marketing ideation
- Maintain and report sales forecast, operating budgets and other metrics
- Communicate company messaging to your team
- Travel (efficiently) to see team members, meet customers and attend events
- Build relationships with vendors
Education & Skill Requirements
- Unwavering ethics, competitive spirit and an understanding of servant leadership
- At least 4 years of previous sales management experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience using tools such as CRM, ERP and Office Products
- Strong mentoring skills and a track record of developing people
- Excellent time management, problem solving and negotiating skills
- Ability to travel
- Reside within the geography of the Region
Not required, but it would be useful if you have
- Experience selling to the Education sector
- Experience selling Technology
- Post-secondary education
- Working knowledge of Spanish or other languages
Qualifications
Education
Preferred
Associates or better.
Experience
Preferred
3-6 years:
Strong background marketing to education or technical sales (audio/visual, electronics, software, systems, etc.)
4-6 years:
Managing a large sales force
Equal Opportunity Employer
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