Area Associate Representative

Enjoy working with a team while utilizing your creativity and impacting young people!

As an Area Associate Representative you will support our Northern California Yearbook Sales Representative while working with school yearbook staff providing journalistic advice creative guidance and critique as well as technical training and support. Our Area Associate Representatives serve as mentors to both students and teachers while also working as project managers to guarantee each publications success. Your efforts will be integral to the quality of each schools book and the entire program supporting it.

Youll be assigned a group of existing accounts to help our sales team grow. These schools will view you as part of the Walsworth team as a valued resource for creating their yearbook. Our customers will look to you for training guidance and troubleshooting on topics such as photography design making money and keeping staff on task.

COMPENSATION: Our Area Associate Representatives receive a competitive base salary.

Additional benefits include medical dental and vision insurance 401(k) paid time off life insurance exceptional training and an unbeatable corporate culture.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Remote service customers through video conferencing

Travel and overnight staysas needed in defined sales area

Support customers through every aspect of yearbook production including flowing portraits indexing virtual trainings on software helping create completed spreads.

Prospect and sell additional schools on working with Walsworth

Teach and engage students while keeping on track with budgets and deadlines

Work independently to make daily schedules and support territories for sales representatives

Learn industry technology such as Salesforce and Walsworths yearbook design software Online Design.

Support lead sales representative in other duties such as following up on holds and tech issues social media postings flowing portraits etc.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum of an associates degree required or high school diploma and relevant work experience

Experience with high school or college yearbooks is preferred

Competitive and driven personality with an influential spirit

Prior customer service and sales experience (ideally outside sales)

Ideal candidates will also have experience in related fields such as: teaching coaching journalism graphic design photography or printing

Leadership experience and proven ability to keep people and projects on track

Creative thinking and advanced problemsolving skills

Excellent computer literacy skills and proficiency in Adobe design software

Strong communication and organizational skills

Willingness to establish a home office and work independently

Must have a valid drivers license and access to a reliable vehicle for daily travel (vehicle expense account included as part of the compensation package)

Maintain confidentiality with respect to student data and customer accounts

Ability to work in the U.S. without sponsorship pass background check and drug test

ABOUT US: In business since 1937 Walsworth Yearbooks is the only American familyowned yearbook publisher in the country. Never bought or sold were among the 35 largest printing companies in the U.S. and one of the top 10 book printers servicing more than 4400 schools nationwide. Our commitment to providing quality printing with a focus on customer service consistently earns us stellar customer satisfaction scores and ensures our continued national expansion. We lead the industry in technical innovation and are the fastestgrowing yearbook company in the country.

CORPORATE SUPPORT: Investing heavily in our employees we start our yearbook consultants with indepth classroom training (most new reps receive 45 weeks within the first year) and continue with ongoing education intensive onthejob training mentoring and coaching.

We believe our success depends on our sales team and provide multiple resources to ensure you have everything necessary to effectively service and sell. Youll benefit from a top CRM (Salesforce) leading technology (iPad pro laptop software etc. solid leadership (every member of our management team started in the field and was promoted from within) and awardwinning support (all three key sales support teams consistently rate over 95 on customer surveys).

Many of our employees stay for decades with good reason. Help us extend our legacy!