Confidential Hiring for Educational Outside Sales Representative at Brookfield, MO Full Time

Enjoy unlimited earning potential, career security, extensive training, and unparalleled corporate support… all while utilizing your creativity and impacting young people!

As an Educational Outside Sales Representative, you’ll work alongside school staffs providing journalistic advice, creative guidance and critique, as well as technical training and support. Our Educational Outside Sales Representatives serve as mentors to both students and teachers, while also working as project managers to guarantee each publication’s success. Your efforts will be integral to the quality of each school’s book, and the entire program supporting it.

You’ll receive a group of existing accounts to manage and grow. Delivering hands-on support, you’ll ensure each school’s publication business is successful by assisting with everything from deadline and budget management to team building and marketing challenges.

In addition to managing and supporting existing customers, you’ll prospect and sell to additional schools in your assigned territory.

COMPENSATION:
Our Educational Outside Sales Representatives receive a competitive base salary plus bonuses and uncapped commissions.

Additional benefits include car allowance, expense account, medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid time off, life insurance, exceptional training, and an unbeatable corporate culture.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Meet or exceed sales quotas

• Support customers through every aspect of publication production, keeping them engaged, on schedule, and loyal to our company

• Prospect for new accounts and grow market share within assigned territory

• Provide advice and critique on photography, design, journalism, technology, classroom management, marketing and business

• Teach and engage students in a classroom setting

• Stay a step ahead of customer schools, keeping them on track with deadlines and budgets

• Coordinate between schools and the production team to ensure the publication stays on point

• Daily travel to schools, both customers and prospects, within the territory, minimal overnight stays

• Maintain organized customer files and detailed records on every school

• Collaborate with other local publication consultants to host training workshops and seminars for students and teachers

UNPARALLELED SUPPORT:
Investing heavily in our employees, we start our Educational Sales Consultants with in-depth classroom training (most new reps receive 4-5 weeks within the first year) and continue with ongoing education, intensive on-the-job training, mentoring, and coaching.

We believe our success depends on our sales team and provide multiple resources to ensure you have everything necessary to effectively service and sell. You’ll benefit from a top CRM (Salesforce), leading technology (iPad pro, laptop, software, etc.), solid leadership (every member of our management team started in the field and was promoted from within) and award-winning support (all three key sales support teams consistently rate over 95% on customer surveys).

Imagine your company working as hard to support you and your customers, as you do to win and retain them. This is how we’re leading the industry, consistently renewing over 90% of our customers. The sky’s the limit and earnings are always uncapped.

Many of our employees stay for decades, with good reason. Help us extend our legacy!

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree required

• Competitive and driven personality with an influential spirit

• Prior customer service and sales experience (ideally outside sales)

• Ideal candidates will also have experience in related fields, such as: teaching, coaching, journalism, graphic design, photography or printing

• Leadership experience and proven ability to keep people and projects on track

• Creative thinking and advanced problem-solving skills

• Excellent computer literacy skills and proficiency in Adobe design software

• Willingness to establish a home office and work independently

• Must have a valid drivers’ license and access to a reliable vehicle for daily travel

• Maintain confidentiality with respect to student data and customer accounts

• Ability to work in the U.S. without sponsorship, pass background check and drug screen

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

Supplemental Pay:

Work Location: On the road