Overview
Job purpose
You will focus on building lasting relationships with client schools to drive customer satisfaction; ensure iSAMS' profile and utilisation is high across the school userbase and drive sales of the full iSAMS product/service portfolio. Through regular client communication, video calls and on-site visits, you will identify sales opportunities and manage the full sales process through to closure.
Key ResponsibilitiesÂ
- Build trusted and lasting relationships with assigned client schools to ensure retention of business.
- To be the primary contact for your assigned client schools, ensuring regular communication to achieve upsell and cross-sell sales targets, grow the sales pipeline and close sales.
- Conduct regular online/on-site meetings to showcase new/existing iSAMS products and services to achieve sales targets. Ensure any customer service related activities, feedback and required actions are well documented within Salesforce and clearly communicated with the school.
- Work proactively with schools to drive adoption and maximise the utilisation of iSAMS both now and in the future. This includes identifying areas of the system not currently being used which could be of value and assisting with planning the future development of iSAMS within the school.
- Pipeline management – owning data quality in CRM/pipeline reports for all opportunities, ensuring accuracy of sales stage, Opp value, close date and next actions.
- Attend conferences, exhibitions, user group meetings and other events as required.
- To maintain a deep understanding of iSAMS and our business to inform customers about system developments (features/functionality/products/services) and relevant company news, highlighting the value to them.
- Ability to adapt the key messages according to the audience/situation during both face-to-face and online meetings.
- Create and maintain accurate sales performance documents. Provide daily updates on client activity to be shared with the company Directors, Sales team and Marketing team.
- Develop and share ideas around achieving sales and client retention targets. Be able to speak confidently about any projects/campaign you are working on including the sales potential, their progress and current status as required.
- Confidently negotiate sales agreements to ensure maximum revenue whilst delivering value for our client schools.
Person Specification – Knowledge, Skills & Experience required
- Successful sales account management/customer relationship management experience of an IT/SaaS product in Education. Track record of customer retention and sales growth in previous experience
- Proven sales experience of managing multiple accounts simultaneously and delivering to target
- Good commercial, negotiation and influencing skills
- Effective time management
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to build trust and rapport at all levels
- Ability to deliver excellent presentations at a professional level
- An advocate of technology and confident in the use of IT for business purposes
- Experience of the education market is advantageous
- Knowledge of iSAMS is advantageous
- Self-motivated team player who has fresh ideas when it comes to user adoption for increasing sales, whilst aligning with iSAMS business and revenue objectives
- Holds a current valid driving licence
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Salary: Competitive + Bonus and Car Allowance
Location: Home Based
