Step into a pivotal role as the AEB National Sales Manager, where you will lead the charge in crafting and executing a comprehensive national sales strategy. Your mandate includes achieving ambitious enrollment targets and revenue goals across the entire country. Our client is one of our long-standing clients and delivers traineeships, adult education, apprenticeships, and employability support programmes. This is a full time role and based remotely.
They are looking for an experienced individual to join award-winning organisations and manage and lead a team of learner engage staff, develop strategies, monitor performance, maintain the teams morale, generate reports and continuously build relationships with organisations and other referral partners to continue growth for the business.
Key Responsibilities:
As an AEB National Sales Manager, you will do
- Sales Strategy Development and Implementation: Craft and execute a comprehensive national sales strategy aligned with enrollment and revenue targets
- Team Leadership and Management: Lead and mentor a team of Learner Engagement Officers, providing guidance and support to achieve individual and collective sales targets
- Market Analysis: Conduct thorough market analysis to identify opportunities, trends, and challenges in the adult education sector, utilising insights for strategic decision-making
- Relationship Building: Build and maintain robust relationships with key partners, industry influencers, and stakeholders to enhance market presence and foster collaboration
- Sales Performance Monitoring: Implement systems to monitor and analyse sales performance, providing regular reports and actionable insights to the executive team.
- Training and Development: Provide ongoing training opportunities for the sales team, enhancing their skills, product knowledge, and overall effectiveness
- Collaboration with Cross-functional Teams: Collaborate with marketing, admissions, and other departments to ensure alignment and integration of sales strategies with overall business objectives
- Customer Feedback Analysis: Gather and analyse customer feedback to identify areas for improvement in sales processes, enhancing customer satisfaction
- Adherence to Compliance: Ensure all sales activities adhere to industry regulations and ethical standards, maintaining the highest level of integrity
- Sales Forecasting: Develop and maintain accurate sales forecasts and providing insights into future trends
- Results-oriented Approach: Demonstrate a results-driven mindset, continually seeking ways to achieve and exceed enrollment targets while maintaining a high standard of quality
- Strategic Partnerships: Identify and foster strategic partnerships contributing to the growth and success of adult education programs
Qualifications:
As an AEB National Sales Manager, you must have
- Proven track record in a Sales Manager or similar leadership role, preferably in the adult education sector
- Substantial experience demonstrating a deep understanding of the adult education/ further education market and contracts such as Bootcamps, AEB, short courses and other government funded provisions
- Demonstrated success in consistently achieving and surpassing sales targets with quantifiable achievements
- Extensive experience leading and managing sales teams, including training, performance management and recruitment
- Proven ability to develop and implement strategic sales plans aligned with business objectives
- Strong relationship-building skills with key partners, influencers, and stakeholders
- Experience in developing and managing sales budgets for efficient resource allocation
- Knowledge and commitment to ensuring ethical standards and compliance in sales activities
- Proficiency in analysing sales data for data-driven decision-making
- Customer-centric approach with strong negotiation skills
Embark on an AEB National Sales Manager journey where your leadership, strategic acumen, and passion for adult education will drive the organisation towards unprecedented sales and enrollment success. Join us in shaping the future of adult education!
S Knights Recruitment are a specialist Employability and Skills Recruitment agency. We recruit for Colleges and Training Providers across the UK.
Reference: SA4675
Salary: £37,000 - £40,000
Location: Remote