Responsibilities
- Collaborates with Outside Sales team members to drive site-based customer outreach and key market penetration
- Organized, forwarding thinking, ability to create strong internal and cross-functional partnerships
- Securing new and repeat business by building strong relationships with key customers and stakeholders via virtual appointments and outbound phone calls
- Consistently meeting, if not exceeding, activity requirements on a regular basis
- Partnering with schools and childcare centers on a regular basis to assess emerging and ongoing needs
- Hosting virtual product presentations designed to familiarize customers with proprietary services (Complete Classrooms®, professional development, custom solutions, and more)
- Conducting online research to gather information pertaining to local, state and national trends and funding opportunities in early learning and elementary education
- Working with department leadership to form and modify sales strategies
- Partnering with outside sales, retail and our professional services group to support the needs of educators
- Identifying sales leads and collaborating with various members of the sales force to support the market
- Participating in weekly meetings with your team to discuss department initiatives and strategies
- Assisting team on special projects such as partnering with the outside sales force and participating in national and/or state campaigns
Requirements
- Enthusiastic about education
- Consultative, solution-based approach to assisting customers
- Outgoing personality
- Thrives on working in a collaborative environment
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to spend most of the day on the phone building lasting customer relationships
- Ability to grow new business and achieve sales quotas/daily activity goals
