Learning Partnerships Manager at Cengage

Job description

We are now recruiting for a Learning Partnerships Manager to join our Higher Education (HE) South African Sales team. This is a full time and permanent position requires the post holder to be based from their home within either Gauteng or the Western Cape.

The Learning Partnerships Manager is a senior level, field based sales position, responsible for the development of profitable revenue for all Institutional (universities, vocational colleges in public and private sector) accounts. They will be responsible for sourcing, developing and growing all Institutional partnerships and developing new business models for these institutions to achieve defined revenue goals for Cengage.

The Learning Partnerships Manager is a services and solution based role, driving transformative institutional partnerships across institutions of Higher and Vocational Education, working closely with the sales team, as well as other in-house departments.   

The successful candidate will have significant successful sales experience, ideally within the information or publishing industry with a proven track record in a relationship-selling environment. They will ideally be educated to degree level or equivalent, have excellent interpersonal and presentational skills with the ability to manage relationships between key stakeholder within large institutions. They will also be flexible in their sales approach by having the ability to adapt to suit the customer and product.  Finally, they need to have a full driving license, and flexibility to travel throughout the territory as well as some travel outside the territory for conferences. 
 
Closing date for CVs: Friday 11th August 2017