Sales Manager, ClassMate

As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdingswhich is backed by Berkshire Hathawayyoull be doing things that matter leading at every level and winning a better way. Were committed to making a positive impact on the world providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities and fostering a culture where everyones empowered to be their best.

ClassMate is World Books next-generation K-12 instructional platform and were building the sales engine that will put it in classrooms across the country. Were looking for a Sales Manager who has the drive to build the team and leads it to a scaled repeatable revenue motion.

This is a player-coach role. Youll carry a personal book of strategic accounts and run point on our most consequential deals; youll also lead a team of National Account and Bottoms-up Sellers. Youll own the teams quota the forecast it rolls up to and the playbook that gets us there.

You know what it takes to navigate long cycle district buyers and capitalize on high velocity school deals. Youre as comfortable opening a CAO conversation as you are coaching a rep through their pipeline review. If that sounds like you this role was built for you.

• Own a personal book of strategic district accounts typically the most complex highest-value opportunities in the pipeline.
• Run executive-level conversations with Superintendents CAOs Directors of Curriculum and CTOs. Build multi-threaded relationships across cabinet and committee.
• Personally drive deals through Discovery Evaluation Vendor Selection and Procurement including RFP responses pilot design and board-approval support.

• Manage and develop a team of four sellers operating across National Accounts Large/Mid Districts Small Districts and individual Schools.
• Coach reps through the realities of K-12 selling: 12-24 month district cycles July 1 fiscal-year timing board approvals multi-stakeholder consensus and the very different velocity of school-level deals.
• Run weekly 1:1s pipeline reviews and deal strategy sessions. Build sellers who can navigate from classroom champion to cabinet sponsor.
• Own hiring ramping and performance management. Identify when to scale the team up and when a rep needs a new plan to get back on track.

• Drive pipeline coverage discipline. Ensure each rep is building enough qualified pipeline (Discovery and beyond) to clear quota with appropriate stage-weighted coverage.
• Run a clean Salesforce instance: stage hygiene BANT qualification next steps close-date discipline. The forecast is only as good as the data. Build and defend an accurate forecast.
• Surface risk early. When pipeline maturity signals trouble against the plan youll be the first to call it and propose the response.

• Work with Marketing to refine ICP targeting messaging and demand-gen plays across the four buying segments.
• Partner with Product to feed field intelligence into the roadmap whats winning deals whats losing them and what gaps competitors are exploiting.
• Iterate on sales scripts discovery frameworks demo flows and competitive positioning. Translate what works in the field into a repeatable team playbook.
• Coordinate with Customer Success and Training to ensure clean handoffs and renewal-ready accounts.

• 6 years of K-12 EdTech sales experience with a strong track record selling instructional or curriculum solutions into school districts.
• 2 years of direct sales management experience hiring coaching and managing quota-carrying reps to plan.
• Demonstrated success closing complex district deals ($100K) with multi-stakeholder buying committees RFPs pilots and board approvals.
• Fluency with the K-12 buying cycle needs assessment goal setting vendor evaluation procurement and the personas who drive each stage (Superintendent CAO Director of Curriculum Director of Instructional Technology Principal Instructional Coach).
• Salesforce proficiency: stage management forecasting pipeline analytics and rep accountability.

• Player-coach mindset. You can close a deal on Tuesday and run a reps pipeline review on Wednesday without dropping either one.
• Forecast discipline. You believe a missed forecast is a process problem not a luck problem and you build the systems to fix it.
• Coaching instinct. Youd rather make a rep great than do their job for them. You give direct feedback and you make it stick.
• Cross-functional credibility. Marketing Product and CS partners want you in the room because you bring sharp field signal not just complaints.
• Comfort with ambiguity. ClassMate is a growing product line youre as ready to write the playbook as to run it.

World Book has been a trusted name in K-12 education for over a century. ClassMate is how we bring that legacy into the AI-enabled classroom built specifically for middle school instruction with the rigor educators expect and the student experience to drive real learning outcomes.

Youll join at a moment when the product is real the pipeline is building and the next chapter of the company is being written by the people in the room. If you want to sell something educators are excited about lead a team thats hungry to win and help shape how a category-defining product gets to market lets talk.

Compensation - Base Salary $115000 plus eligible for Commission

World Book is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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