Account Executive

Job Overview: The Account Executive - College - Sells to Higher Education faculty within a designated geographical territory. With a hunter mentality, their objective is to grow market share by successfully establishing new business with Sage Vantage, myBusinessCourse, and other digital or print content that meets course needs. Ideal candidate is an independent, self-starter whose responsibilities include conducting well-structured consultative sales calls, persuasively demonstrating technology product capabilities, establishing relationships with faculty members and other customers to gain new business and grow revenue. With a strong drive, ample product knowledge, and active listening skills, this person is confident and persuasive when interacting with customers. The ability to systematically run a large geographic territory through employing in person and virtual sales techniques is a daily requirement. Sage Account Executives maintain our sales database (MSCRM), which allows them to juxtapose account growth outreach with maintenance activities, resulting in successful adoption of new materials, digital product renewals and retention and/or expansion of the current base of Sage products. This position is field based in the greater Salt Lake City, UT area and will have overnight travel of 15-20% during the prime selling season. Your New Role: Sales Following a strategic territory selling plan, built with the help and direction of Sales Management, the ideal candidate will work to grow Sage's presence and establish new products in all of our subject areas by: Being highly visible to customers, persuasively conducting quality sales calls, and gaining Vantage demonstrations through employing professional selling techniques. Successfully positioning self and Sage as a strategic business partner within social science departments and business schools across campus by actively listening to customer needs. Traveling to assigned campuses during selling seasons is required with geographic travel and overnights outlined in advance; often requiring an excess of 40+ hours per week. Conducting effective sales calls to grow new revenue via well-planned campus appointments and/or schedules, video calls, telephone, and email exchanges with the goal of progressing the territory pipeline and taking new market share. Identifying and dynamically qualifying new sales leads in assigned territory; assertively selling to those identified targets while growing existing business by placing it into recurring revenue models to meet set sales goals. Effectively deploying key sales tools within the course of daily selling and nimbly using the insights that the tools provide to accelerate pipeline movement. Growing market share at the territory and key title level each selling season through strong internal partnerships, as well as through personal drive and resilience to achieve success. Confidently and successfully demonstrating Sage technology and employing sales enablement tools in sales calls. Ensuring data within the CRM system is accurate by maintaining and updating the sales pipeline daily. Overall, a Sage Account Executive is innovative,... For full info follow application link. SAGE Publishing is committed to being an inclusive employer where all individuals are treated with fairness and respect, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marriage and partnership status, pregnancy and parental responsibilities, race, religion and belief, sex, or sexual orientation. We believe that diversity is a cornerstone of a vibrant culture. We want SAGE to be an organization where the most talented staff and high-potential staff are recruited, have the opportunity to grow, and want to work. We strive t o achieve a better representation of diverse talent at all levels, including leadership, across our workforce.