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Bluum

Sales Director, K-12 -Great Lakes

🇺🇸 Remote - Detroit, MI

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Sales

🗓️ February 7th, 2025

CRM

Edtech.com's Summary

Bluum is hiring a  Sales Director. This role involves building, mentoring, and managing a team of sales professionals to grow market share in a designated geographic territory. The Sales Director will report on sales forecasts, manage budgets, and develop plans with team members to drive the success of the territory. 

Highlights 
  • Manage and mentor a team of sales professionals.
  • Experience with CRM, ERP, and Office Products required.
  • Competitive compensation package.
  • 4+ years of sales management experience required.
  • Strong communication, time management, and problem-solving skills.
  • Involves travel within the region.
  • Unwavering ethics and competitive spirit essential.
  • Preferred: Experience in education sector or technical sales.
  • Post-secondary education beneficial.
  • Experience managing a large sales force preferred.

Sales Director, K-12 -Great Lakes Full Description

Full-Time
Remote
Detroit, MI
Detroit, MI, USA

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
 
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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