Education Sales Account Executive - begin your career with a mission-driven company equipping students with quality resources in Oxford

Our client is the leading subscription agency for online resources for secondary schools worldwide, UK colleges, and UK & ANZ public libraries, providing sales, marketing, and subscription services for leading academic publishers of quality online resources.

Their role is to secure as many subscriptions to their resources as possible, so the effectiveness of their marketing and promotion is essential to achieving this goal. Their primary contacts for subscriptions and promotion tend to be librarians, subject teachers, EPQ/IB coordinators, heads of departments or heads of teaching and learning.

To help schools around the world access high-quality, trusted content to support exceptional teaching, effective learning, and student achievement, school resources provide high-quality, trusted content. From academic journals and multimedia databases to international newspapers, magazines, and theatre productions, JCS provides access to trusted, carefully curated resources that help students achieve academic success and be well prepared for university research.

You will be part of a team of 4, with responsibility for driving sales of the resources to UK secondary schools and Further Education colleges, as well as to public libraries in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. You will be responsible for writing prospecting emails using their extensive database of contacts and making phone calls.

You will be supported by the wider team, including the Communications Manager, who will raise awareness of the resources with schools, colleges, and libraries, generating enquiries and sales opportunities for you to follow up on. They have recently invested in HubSpot, which will keep you organised by allowing you to track tasks against customer accounts, set up sales opportunities, and send out free trials and price quotations.

Performance-related annual bonus after the first 12 months of employment, ~25 days holiday and statutory bank holidays (8 at present), plus an additional day for every two years of employment (up to 30 days). Pension scheme, quarterly socials and Christmas party, hybrid working, and thorough training and support to help you succeed from a management team that takes pleasure in seeing people grow.

Requirements:

• Be excited about a career in sales, publishing, or education-focused roles.
• Have experience involving regular phone contact with customers or prospects.
• Be comfortable building relationships from scratch and developing new sales opportunities with existing customers.
• Understand that persistence is a key part of successful sales – especially when working with busy schools and libraries.
• Have a consultative sales mindset.
• Familiarity with online academic or reference resources from your studies.
• Previous sales, customer service, or account management experience (including internships, part-time roles, or graduate schemes).
• Experience working with schools, education, publishing, or libraries.

We’re open to candidates at different stages of their careers and will provide training and support to help you succeed. Above all, we’re looking for someone with the right attitude: organised, resilient, comfortable on the phone, and motivated to build relationships over time. If you’re seeking to begin an exciting career and are motivated by making a positive impact in education, apply now!