JOB SUMMARY:
Promotes and sells educational and related products in assigned territory.
Maintains a healthy and positive relationship with new and current clients. Acts as a local liaison person with all customers of both product courseware and PSS programmes in assigned territory.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES:
Client Services Duties
- Make sales and marketing calls to local customers.
- Provides necessary technical and training support assistance to the client.
- Coordinate and facilitate user group and marketing meetings.
- Acts as the local product resource for handling client issues.

Product Knowledge
- Participate in assigned product training.
- Deliver the product Science Simulations and other assigned products presentations effectively and accurately to all customers.
- Understand product Science Simulations competition, their competitive advantages, and why opportunities are won and lost.
- Alert product management if a customer has a need for a product or service that is not currently offered in the territory.

Marketing Duties
- Visit customers in targeted sales area
- Schedule and coordinate site visits for proposals.
- Coordinate mailings / open houses / seminars
- Coordinate and work tradeshows
- Qualify leads provided by Sales Support.

Support Duties
- Generate correspondence, proposals (including responses to RFP's), and Client Order Forms.
- Schedule and confirm own appointments
- Coordinate and manage marketing supplies and materials.
- Maintain lists of prospective customers for use as sales leads.

Additional duties:
Demonstrate all Product Learning products.

Education and/or experience
- Bachelor's degree with three to five years of sales experience or equivalent.
- Knowledge of grade 9 to 12 Science and Biology Curriculum
- Experience in education industry preferred
- English speaking

Specialised knowledge and skills
- Effective communication, presentation, organisational and planning skills.
- Effective interpersonal skills to work as a team member and as a liaison with customers.
- Strong knowledge of teaching techniques and product features.
- PCs, spreadsheets and various other software applications used as required.

Details
Benefits: Commision, Cell phone allowance, petrol allowance
Province: Western Cape
City: Cape Region
Education level: Degree
Job level: MidSenior
Own transport required: Yes
Travel requirement: Occasional
Type: Permanent
Reference #PSAmdt

Contact
Miranda du Toit
Key Recruitment
021 4611 848
personnel2@keyrecruitment.co.za