Assistant Territory Manager

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. We are focused on meeting the needs of our learners, authors, and customers by bringing research, teaching, learning and assessment together.

Job Purpose

As a ATM, individual will establish and nurture strong connections with significant clients namely schools & distributors, to generate the revenue for the vertical. Plan & implement events, activities to reach yearly target.

• Revenue generation and cost of sales for the education vertical in India

• Creation and Tracking of Sales and Collections: Budget & Achievement (variance if any to be tracked)

• Execution of Sales Plan in alignment with the CUP&A India (Including promotions and reach agenda)

• Support sales function effectively, ensuring sales capability building for the vertical in India

Dimensions

Financial: To achieve Minimum of 12million/ 1.2 Cr INR for all the domestic/overall GM 1 of 70%

Staff: No direct reportees

Other: 4 - Channel partners, 150 education bodies and educational institutions

Principal Accountabilities

• Responsible for new account acquisitions and farming long term customers by comprehending their requirements in the area assigned.
• Timely promotion of CUP&A Products & Services across the target segment.
• Develop trust relationships with portfolio of major clients to ensure they do not turn to competition.
• Establish relationship with the distributors to channelise orders from schools.
• Expand the relationships with existing customers by continuously proposing solutions that meet their objectives.
• Serve as the link of communication between customers and internal departments to facilitate client need fulfilment.
• Ensure customer success through post-sales support, managing concerns and issues faced by customers.
• Prepare regular reports of progress and forecasts to internal and external stakeholders using key account metrics.
• You should be able to interpret data and sales figures to develop business and marketing strategy.
• Have in-depth product knowledge across K 12 and Cross sales products.
• Driving business through sales/business analytic, effectively leveraging the CRM data.
• Propose Cambridge suite of products to the target customers, evaluate the best fits and pitch relevant product offerings.
• Assisting regional teams with product presentations & ideate regional strategies for each product category from implementation to delivery.
• GTM Strategy for current products and Internal stakeholder management.
• Identifying new post covid19 trends, and suggest products based on the same lines.

Knowledge & Experience

• Must have a minimum of 4 years of experience in Education Publishing or Digital products business on the sales side.
• Experience in sales and providing solutions based on customer needs.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with aptitude in building relationships with professionals of all organizational levels.
• Natural relationship builder with integrity, reliability, and maturity.
• Capability to manage and influence senior stakeholders.
• Excellent listening, problem solving, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Excellent time and project management skills.
• Expert at Microsoft Office Suite, Google Apps, Salesforce and help desk support software.
• Demonstrated consultative selling skills and focus on Account profitability.

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