Education Program Manager

Reference No.	:	EDU-PROG-001
Designation	:	Education Program Manager
Gender	:	Male / Female
Experience	:	8 yrs - 10 yrs
Age	:	30 yrs - 38 yrs
Package	:	Attractive & Negociable

Company	:	MNC (Multi National Company)
Sector	:	Technology
Industry	:	Application Software

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Our client is a world renowned IT Technology Corporation (Fortune and S&P) with work force of 71,000 full-time employees world wide. The Company provides a variety of products and services, ranged from platform and business applications for enterprise to video game consoles, interactive television, and Internet access for consumers.

The Education Sales Manager is responsible for providing leadership in all aspects of organization's sales engagements with its customers and the Academic circles in the Education market. In addition to driving academic revenue by working with customers and partners, this position spearheads the effort to incorporate organization's technologies into the teaching curriculum of the tertiary institutions. To accomplish both these objectives, the successful candidate must be able to interact and work effectively across all levels of the customer organization, from CXOs to teaching staff.

Achieve and maximize revenue in enterprise accounts by identifying and closing large desktop and server opportunities.
Establish and maintain regular dialogues with senior management and key influencers of enterprises and other academic accounts to establish deep relationships and increase the partnership with organization'.
Ability to work closely with Government officials and others within the academic community.
Work with partners and CMO to identify trends and develop sales and promotional plans to increase organization's’s revenue in primary and secondary schools, junior colleges, centralized institutions, foreign schools and tertiary institutions.
Track competitive activity and build plans to effectively counter it.
Build relationships at the appropriate levels with key partners to jointly pursue and close large solution opportunities at enterprise accounts.
Build a network of supporters from academic staff to students across all the tertiary institutions who will champion and use organization's technologies in their teaching and research efforts

8-10 years experience , with an emphasis of being in sales with successful track record in selling to enterprise accounts, and proven account management and business planning skills.
Previous experience in managing business partnerships with solution providers, or partners preferred.
Strong exposure to the Education segment / and or Public sector in Sri Lanka with good contacts and networks in place would be preferred
Strong negotiation, written/verbal communication and presentation skills, with the ability to interact with very senior executives.
Superior commitment to customer service.
Knowledge of organization's products and of competitive platforms and tools.
Relevant sales experience within the Education industry will be an added advantage.
Degree in Marketing, Business or the equivalent preferred.