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The Partner Inside Sales Representative is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with schools and childcare centers through virtual and phone-based outreach. This role drives new business growth and revenue targets while partnering with outside sales teams to expand market penetration in the education sector.

Key Responsibilities: Daily activities include outbound phone calls and virtual appointments to secure new and repeat business, hosting product presentations for proprietary services, conducting market research on education trends and funding opportunities, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to support customer needs. The role requires consistent achievement of activity goals and quotas while participating in team strategy meetings and special projects.
Skills & Tools: Strong communication and consultative selling abilities with an outgoing personality and collaborative mindset. Must demonstrate organizational skills, ability to build internal and cross-functional partnerships, and proficiency in virtual relationship-building and online research.
Qualifications: Not specified in the job description. Typically requires 1-3 years of inside sales experience and demonstrated passion for education or B2B sales.
Location: Remote - Phoenix, AZ
Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation for this role is $35,000 – $50,000/year based on title, seniority, and location.

Job Description

The ideal candidate for the Partner Inside Sales Representative is enthusiastic about education with a consultative, solution-based approach to assisting customers. Primary focus on forging relationships and exceeding customers’ expectations. The right candidate has an outgoing personality and thrives on working in a collaborative environment. Strong communication skills will be needed as this role spends most of the day on the phone building lasting customer relationships. This is a fast-paced and exciting sales role, and you will be tasked with growing new business and achieving sales quotas/daily activity goals. This role is fully remote, so candidates can be based anywhere in the US. 

A day on the job looks like this:

  • Collaborates with Outside Sales team members to drive site-based customer outreach and key market penetration  
  • Organized, forwarding thinking, ability to create strong internal and cross-functional partnerships  
  • Securing new and repeat business by building strong relationships with key customers and stakeholders via virtual appointments and outbound phone calls  
  • Consistently meeting, if not exceeding, activity requirements on a regular basis.   
  • Partnering with schools and childcare centers on a regular basis to assess emerging and ongoing needs  
  • Hosting virtual product presentations designed to familiarize customers with proprietary services (Complete Classrooms®, professional development, custom solutions, and more)  
  • Conducting online research to gather information pertaining to local, state and national trends and funding opportunities in early learning and elementary education  
  • Working with department leadership to form and modify sales strategies  
  • Partnering with outside sales, retail and our professional services group to support the needs of educators  
  • Identifying sales leads and collaborating with various members of the sales force to support the market  
  • Participating in weekly meetings with your team to discuss department initiatives and strategies  
  • Assisting team on special projects such as partnering with the outside sales force and participating in national and/or state campaigns 

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