Sales Consultant, Strategic Accounts

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Remote Sales Consultant supporting strategic account sales operations for Cengage’s education technology products. Managing Salesforce, contracts, reporting, territory coverage, and customer-specific sales support.

Responsibilities:

  • Support sales execution and administrative operations
  • Plan, organize, and support selling strategies with sales leadership and sales personnel
  • Provide day-to-day administrative support for sales teams
  • Update and maintain Salesforce opportunity, account, contact, activity, and territory information
  • Pull and organize CRM and Sales Operations reports for opportunity analysis, territory planning, forecasting, and follow-up
  • Assist with contract alignment, order processing and review, and billing questions or reviews
  • Manage content mapping exercises and customer-specific sales support activities
  • Support marketing and sales initiatives for account development, customer engagement, and territory execution
  • Coordinate with Sales Management, Account Directors, Customer Success, Solutions Specialists, and cross-functional partners
  • Identify process gaps, customer trends, and recurring needs and communicate recommendations
  • Support Account Plan activities within assigned open territories
  • Work with Regional Directors and Account Directors to achieve open-territory and regional sales goals
  • Support prospecting, qualifying, advancing, and closing sales opportunities through phone, email, virtual meetings, and technology demonstrations
  • Participate in account planning and handoffs
  • Provide status updates and reporting to managers and sales leaders
  • Communicate with internal and external customers across multiple time zones
  • Fulfill team support roles and special projects
  • Perform other duties as assigned by management

Requirements:

  • Highly flexible and adaptable to change
  • Driven to succeed
  • Strong listening skills; ability to work well with external and internal customers
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Comfortable applying technology for routine job tasks and product demonstrations
  • Outstanding organizational and time management skills
  • Proficiency in PC and Microsoft Office applications
  • BA or BS degree strongly preferred
  • At least two (2) years of successful sales or customer interaction experience
  • Direct sales, marketing or editorial experience
  • Experience with digital sales products/applications and contact management systems such as Salesforce

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package
  • Variable Sales incentive compensation program
  • Annual target variable compensation of $12,500 USD (actual incentive earnings may vary)