Sales Director, K-12 -Great Lakes

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*This is a field sales Director role that requires candidates to be located and willing to frequently travel to customers sites within a specific territory in Detroit, Indiana, Columbus, Ohio, Chicago. 

Bluum is quickly becoming the biggest name in the educational technology industry, and we are looking for passionate, talented people to help us achieve our vision: enable more access to technology and improve learning outcomes for all students. Bluum is currently seeking a Regional Sales Director. This role plays an important part of our goal to bring technology to students; we are proud to serve thousands of school districts reaching 27 million students in North America.

As a Bluum Sales Director, you are responsible to the success of a geographic territory.  You will build, mentor and manage a team of sales professionals with the goal of growing market share.

Responsibilities:

• Safeguard Bluum’s values, customers and reputation
• Drive the growth of your master territory
• Become the guru of your geography and the competition
• Hire, mentor and drive the activity level of sales professionals
• Course-correct struggling team members to success or termination
• Own complicated situations such as conflicts, large deals and customer issues
• Develop an account level plan with every team member
• Keep cadence of one-on-one reviews, team meetings and regional events
• Participate in budget building and marketing ideation
• Maintain and report sales forecast, operating budgets and other metrics
• Communicate company messaging to your team
• Travel (efficiently) to see team members, meet customers and attend events
• Build relationships with vendors

Education & Skill Requirements

• Unwavering ethics, competitive spirit and an understanding of servant leadership
• At least 4 years of previous sales management experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience using tools such as CRM, ERP and Office Products
• Strong mentoring skills and a track record of developing people
• Excellent time management, problem solving and negotiating skills
• Ability to travel
• Reside within the geography of the Region

Not required, but it would be useful if you have

• Experience selling to the Education sector
• Experience selling Technology
• Post-secondary education
• Working knowledge of Spanish or other languages

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