Education Consultant

Job Title: Education Consultant ELT & International Curriculum(Macmillan Education)

Location: Cairo Hybrid Working

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About the Role

As an Educational Consultant you will be responsible for achieving sales growth and driving brand awareness of the Macmillan Education blended learning portfolio. This includes developing business opportunities across multiple cities from Cairo to Upper Egypt. You will be driven commercially aware with strong consultative sales skills and a desire to deliver excellent customer service. In this position you will build and maintain strong relationships with local representatives key distributors schools and other educational organisations within the territory.

This role will be based in our Cairo offices on a hybrid working pattern.

Role Responsibilities:

• Achieve sales targets and drive sales growth and opportunities for all Macmillan Education products throughout Egypt

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders both internally and externally

• Extensive promotional activity across agreed territory to promote products build relationships and drive brand awareness

• Work with the Senior Sales Lead to implement strategies to achieve sales targets and strong growth across multiple cities from Cairo to Upper Egypt.

• Full sales responsibility for selected territories as agreed with the Senior Sales Lead.

• Extensive promotional activity in agreed territories to promote and sell print and digital resources from Macmillan Education blended learning portfolios

• Conduct school visits into all agreed priority schools

• Align visiting strategies with Egypt core product strategy planned product promotions and developments in the digital portfolio

• Update and maintain adoptions tracker.

• Ensure key accounts have the required support with digital implementation

• Build develop and maintain strong relationships with key distributors schools and other Educational organisations throughout the agreed territory.

• Conduct local market research to support market insights and strategic approach.

• Update NEXUS (CRM) daily with information aligned to NEXUS strategy. Ensure all pre and post activity is added and use NEXUS to form discussions with Managers.

• Provide timely customer service for all contacts in the territory and follow up on all potential leads whether self or centrally generated.

• Liaise with the Academic Services team to identify promotional opportunities such as workshops and teacher training.

• Manage sample requirements carefully leading with digital first.

• Use sales data and market knowledge to assist in the forecasting process.

• Support the academic services team with teacher training as required

Experience Skills & Qualifications:

Essential

• Educated to degree level

• Driving license

• Willingness to travel for the role (please note responsibilities will include extensive travel throughout the Cairo region)

• Strong demonstrable english teaching experience.

• Drive and determination to generate sales growth

• Strong consultative sales skills

• Commercially astute

• Proactive selfmotivated and highly organised

• Excellent communication presentation and interpersonal skills

• Strong numeracy skills

• Exceptional customer service skills and an understanding of why this is important

• Ability to work well in a small team but also function independently

• Good level of competence using Microsoft Office (including MS Word Outlook PowerPoint and Excel)

• Experience in a consultative sales role with demonstrable examples of sales achievements preferably within the education sector

Desirable

• Market research skills

• Knowledge and experience of the publishing industry and digital content delivery

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