Advanced Specialist - Sales in Oxford

This is a home-based role with travel across the South and South East of England. This is a term-time only role (195 days per year). Our mission is to partner with schools to deliver learner progression. All students from the age of 5 through to 18+ have their own individual learner journeys. Alongside their teachers, Pearson can help them make the progression most appropriate to them, whether onto Further or Higher Education, onto Apprenticeships or directly into work.

Through a consultative, collaborative sales approach we support our school customers with the right choice of products and services for their learners. Reporting to the Manager, Sales - Curriculum Development MFL & Humanities, you will work with subject leaders in individual schools and multi-academy trusts across the 11 - 19 age range, engaging with key decision makers to drive qualification and learning services growth within a defined product portfolio.

You will be a key collaborator across the sales team to build relationships with subject hubs in your area and provide key market insight. You will work regionally, with a large number of customers and a range of subjects, which may evolve over time in line with business priorities, and will therefore have responsibility for prioritising your activity and managing the key stakeholders internally to ensure best outcomes. The role will also require a commercial mindset to be able to identify and capitalise on the best opportunities for revenue growth across the region.

• Driving a growth strategy with subject leaders within Schools and Multi-Academy Trusts.
• Subject specific revenue growth.
• Customer acquisition.
• Multi-functional collaboration to support customers in acquisition and retention.

• Annual revenue in customer base, for courseware and qualifications, for specific portfolio vs target.
• YoY revenue growth in customer base courseware and qualifications for specific portfolio.
• Meetings virtual and in-person.
• Customer and prospect coverage.
• Pipeline health & Lead conversion.

Generating profitable sales through new business growth, driving sales effectiveness and efficiency. Exceed annual revenue goals by building and maintaining a pipeline of opportunities across qualifications and learning services that follow clearly defined strategies for accounts. Taking accountability for driving year on year growth of qualifications and learning services revenue within a broad product portfolio across your region(s).

The ability to drive results and outcomes as a result of professional, well planned and executed strategies. Develop strategy to ensure the highest chance of success in and across regions. Working productively across your regional matrix team, including developing and implementing regional strategies to increase revenue. Demonstrating foresight and flexibility to adapt your strategy to maximise opportunity and minimise risk. Ability to use and interpret market information which capitalises on strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for promoting revenue growth. Use One CRM (Salesforce) effectively to capture interactions and pipeline, but also drive the most effective outputs.

Creating, maintaining and managing relationships with future customers at key stakeholder level. Managing the complex nature of secondary schools and their stakeholders. Regularly responsible for uncovering and developing new customer relationships. Use sales experience and technique to develop customer relationships into growth opportunities. Delivering depth of product expertise in the 11-19 education market; providing expertise to various stakeholders.

Apply appropriate sales tools and skills to drive productive outcomes at each stage. Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the customers' learning and growth strategies, values, challenges, internal policies and apply that to growth plans. Articulating the value of what you are selling in ways that are relevant to the customer, overcome competition and engage key stakeholders. Deliver powerful sales presentations, communicate effectively and with gravitas to relevant stakeholders and decision makers.

Think and work independently - forming and implementing your strategy for the region(s). Take responsibility for solving complex customer and market challenges. Makes understanding changes in the market a key focus and uses that information effectively with customer and the business. Uses strong communication skills to not only influence customers, but also to develop a successful internal network. Take ownership for personal development of skills, knowledge and experience. Growth mindset. A proactive decision-maker who considers commercial implications alongside customer need.

• The ability to leverage communication in order to change attitudes or behaviour by using written or spoken words to convey information to gain specific advantage, impact or outcome.
• Demonstrate collaborative attitude and behaviour consistent with team and organisational values as the matrix account structure will deliver the complete customer experience.
• Strong selling skills with a particular focus on managing senior level relationships in secondary schools/trusts and driving revenue growth.
• Strong product knowledge across resources and qualifications in the secondary market.
• Objection handling, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Demonstrate, share and inform best practice.
• Provide key market insight to other areas of the business and to inform regional activity.

• Highly motivated and results driven - shows initiative to achieve and generate opportunity.
• Customer growth focused.
• Strong organisational and planning skills.
• Commercially minded and able to effectively define and deliver sales strategy.
• Committed and flexible.
• Aptitude for learning new technologies and skills.
• Competent with digital media.

• Excellent knowledge of the UK education market.
• Demonstrative experience in a business to business sales environment, selling complex solutions at a senior level (growth and acquisition).
• Field based and willingness to travel (80%).
• Full UK driving licence.

There's a wide range of benefits available, but when you join Pearson, you can look forward to:

• Flexibility in the way we work.
• A term time working pattern.
• A generous sales incentive plan.
• A generous pension scheme, where we match and double your contributions, up to 16% depending on your age.
• Maternity, paternity, and family care leave, alongside flexible working policies.
• Share purchase options.
• Healthcare and dental plans, as well as an employee wellbeing assistance programme to support you and your family.
• A cycle to work scheme, gym membership concessions (at selected locations), and a range of retail and leisure discounts.

For full details of our UK benefits, please visit: Pearson Jobs - Benefits.

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