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Job Description
**Job Summary:**
Seeking an Educational Sales Representative to optimize sales in an assigned territory of school accounts, delivering long-term value and growing market share.
My client, an Irish-owned company with 65 years of experience adapting to the changing needs of school communities, aims to provide outstanding educational tools that positively impact teaching and learning. Their mission is to respond to customer needs, and their vision is to make great learning easy.
The main purpose of this role is to take ownership of assigned school accounts, promoting print and digital content to primary and post-primary teachers, and identifying opportunities to grow market share.
**Responsibilities:** • Promote print and digital content to primary and post-primary teachers in a designated area of schools • Know the company's full product portfolio in detail and identify opportunities to grow market share • Have a good awareness of competitor products to enable the business to track and analyze • Create an achievable territory action plan to reach sales targets • Grow and maintain customer relationships within assigned territory • Provide feedback and identify opportunities to the business • Support national events, including subject conferences • Analyze booklist data and work with internal systems, such as CRM and MS Dynamics • Play a cross-functional role in the team, working with all areas of the business to drive improvements and growth **Requirements:** • Degree in Education, Business, Sales, or Marketing-related discipline, or 3+ years of experience in a similar sales role • Highly enthusiastic, results-driven individual with a passion for people, customers, sales, and fact-based decision making • Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with CRM and data warehouse systems • Ability to prioritize and use time efficiently and effectively • Flexibility and adaptability to embrace new product types, technologies, and methodologies in the education market • Excellent communication and presentation skills • Interest in/knowledge of digital technology and aptitude for IT solutions • Strong IT skills in MS Office and CRM systems **Benefits:** • Company car provided • 35 days specified annual leave • Mobile phone and laptop • Full training provided • Daily lunch allowance • Incentives and bonuses • Company pension