As the **Education Account Manager,** you will be primarily responsible for identifying and driving new business opportunities, building long-term partnerships and providing clients with innovative solutions that are tailored specifically to their education business needs.
**Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to**:
- Creating and delivering upon a clear strategy of new School acquisition (new business) and retention of key accounts (Schools) assigned to you
- Engage in Business Development activities to win new clients in the Education sector, predominantly K-12 Schools, Universities and Higher Education, Early Learning Centre's, Education departments and Catholic Dioceses
- Understand the client's objectives, buying criteria and decision-making process and form long-term business partnerships
- Actively and successfully manage the sales process from start to finish including managing and maintaining your sales pipeline, ensuring all sales enquiries are followed through
- Identify and grow opportunities within your State /Territory and collaborate with sales team to ensure maximum growth
- Liaising with internal staff (sales coordinator, pre-sales, practices managers and management) for support, reporting, resourcing of projects as required
**Qualifications**:
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- Experience working within the Education sector, either as an educator recently moved into a sales role, or as an Account Manager or Business development manager with experience within the Education industry. If no education experience, experience of selling within the IT, Audio, Visual & Interactive or Managed service industry will be beneficial
- Experience in adopting a Solutions sales approach in selling I.T Solutions, STEM/STEAM and Audio, Visual & Interactive industry
- Experience with Salesforce (highly beneficial)
- Experience in Microsoft Office (high beneficial)
- Experience of using social media platforms, in particular LinkedIn
- Current Driver's License
**Additional Information**:
- JB Hi-Fi Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a work environment that promotes diversity and inclusion. If this opportunity excites you (even if you feel that you don't meet 100% of the criteria) - please don't hesitate to apply_