Scholastic
Scholastic Education Inside Sales Representative
🇺🇸 Hybrid - St. Charles, IL
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $52K - $60K
💻 Sales
🗓️ December 24th, 2024
K-12
Salesforce
Edtech.com's Summary
Scholastic is hiring an Inside Sales Representative in a hybrid role based in St. Charles, Illinois. This full-time position involves collaborating with Outside Account Executives to expand business opportunities and boost revenue within small and rural school accounts.
Highlights
- Responsibilities include maintaining customer relations, identifying new business opportunities, and meeting sales goals.
- Utilizes various communication platforms such as phone, email, and virtual presentations to engage with clients.
- Requires approximately 20% travel for customer support and corporate events.
- Proficiency in software such as Excel, Google Suite, Outlook, and Salesforce is necessary.
- Compensation ranges from $52,000 to $60,000 annually.
- A background in K-12 sales or education is preferred but not mandatory.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential.
- Excellent organizational and time management abilities are required.
Scholastic Education Inside Sales Representative Full Description
Job Description:
THE OPPORTUNITY/RESPONSIBILITIES
Scope of Responsibilities
A Scholastic Education Solutions Inside Sales Representative works in collaboration with Outside Account Executives in an assigned territory to maintain the current business and identify new business opportunities.
Specific Responsibilities
A Scholastic Education Inside Sales Representative will utilize phone, mail, email, TEAMS, Google Meets, and join.me presentations as part of a consultative sales effort. They will hold in-depth conversations about comprehensive literacy solutions, and how the extensive Scholastic Education product line can support their specific school/district initiatives. The main goal is to increase revenue in small and/or rural school accounts as well as assist their Outside Account Executive counterparts with efforts supporting larger customer accounts.
The ISR is required to meet established sales goals and customer contact rates.
The ISR is required to build and maintain a dependable sales pipeline at all times as well as creating sales quotes and proposals based on customer needs.
The ISR will travel approximately 20% of the time to provide customer support and attend Educational conferences and corporate sponsored training and sales meetings.
A Scholastic Education Solutions Inside Sales Representative works in collaboration with Outside Account Executives in an assigned territory to maintain the current business and identify new business opportunities.
Specific Responsibilities
A Scholastic Education Inside Sales Representative will utilize phone, mail, email, TEAMS, Google Meets, and join.me presentations as part of a consultative sales effort. They will hold in-depth conversations about comprehensive literacy solutions, and how the extensive Scholastic Education product line can support their specific school/district initiatives. The main goal is to increase revenue in small and/or rural school accounts as well as assist their Outside Account Executive counterparts with efforts supporting larger customer accounts.
The ISR is required to meet established sales goals and customer contact rates.
The ISR is required to build and maintain a dependable sales pipeline at all times as well as creating sales quotes and proposals based on customer needs.
The ISR will travel approximately 20% of the time to provide customer support and attend Educational conferences and corporate sponsored training and sales meetings.
About Scholastic
For more than 100 years, Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) has been meeting children where they are – at school, at home and in their communities – by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy. Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children’s books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media. As the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom libraries, school and public libraries, retail, and online, and with a global reach into more than 135 countries, Scholastic encourages the personal and intellectual growth of all children, while nurturing a lifelong relationship with reading, themselves, and the world around them. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.
Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic.
Qualifications
HOW YOU CAN FIT (Qualifications)
Experience
- A background in K-12 sales or education is preferred but is not mandatory.
- Experience in Education and/or Inside Sales preferred but not mandatory
- Proven track record of generating sales of 2 mm + annually preferred but not mandatory
Skills Qualifications
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong Computer and Digital Presentation skills- Excel, Google Suite, Outlook, Salesforce
- Strong organizational and time management skill
Time Type:
Full time
Job Type:
Regular
Job Family Group:
Sales
Location Region/State:
Illinois
Compensation Range:
Annual Salary: 52,000.00 - 60,000.00
EEO Statement:
Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.
