Inside Sales Representative

Remote - USA Only

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We are FlatWorld and we are disrupting the college textbook industry.

About the company

Our mission is to bring textbook prices back down to earth. College professors are our customers. We make their lives easier by ensuring that their students have access to our high-quality, digital-first textbooks, at prices they can afford. We are growing rapidly.

About the job and team

As a Inside Publishing Sales Representative, you are critical to persuading new faculty in your territory to make the move to FlatWorld and you will be compensated accordingly. Great relationships depend on great people and you are the face of FlatWorld.

Starting with a clear strategy and an effective plan for maximizing your time, energy, and resources, you will uncover opportunities, identify who’s making the textbook decision, and follow through with them by Google Meet and Zoom, to close the sale. You will then work with them and with our customer support team, to ensure that everything is in place for their students to purchase our textbooks at the start of the semester.

We are committed to providing our customers with A+ service. Relationships with existing FlatWorld professors in your territory are an important way to find new prospects and to generate referrals. Your highest priority, however, given our rapid growth, is driving new business: You will be compensated generously based on new revenue generated, with no cap on commissions earned.

We anticipate that you will earn a base salary of $40-$50k based on experience, in addition to $25k+ in uncapped commission.  Full benefits package.

About you

You will be a good fit for this job if you have some prior sales skills and higher education experience. But FlatWorld is scrappy and we value results over resumes. You absolutely have:

· Strategic skills to triage a large territory

· Relentless hunger for new business

· Tenacity to see a sale through to the end

· Motivation to reshape an industry

While you will join a team of other Inside Publishing Sales Representatives, this position is remote, so you need to be comfortable working autonomously, while maintaining a strong sense of urgency.

Critical Functions:

· Create and execute a territory plan, prioritizing prospective school, department and professor targets

· Work to uncover opportunities, both by responding promptly to marketing-led, inbound inquiries, but also by directly identifying and communicating our mission, value proposition and solutions to prospective customers

· Attain and surpass your sales goal, by building relationships, growing and expanding awareness of FlatWorld as an alternative, listening for faculty friction points and issues with their current textbook choice and diagnosing and persuading those faculty to make the move to FlatWorld

· Develop your skills and refine your selling approach independently: synthesize and apply information and input from peers, management and sales tools and reports, to identify ever-better approaches to drive new revenue in your territory

· Manage company resources with compliance to standards, including company laptop, additional equipment as required, and marketing collateral

· Client facing

· Requires 40+ hours per week

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

· Bachelor’s Degree from an Accredited College or University

· Superior listening, oral and written communication skills in English

· Excellent organization and follow through

· Accomplished range of skills from strategic thinking to creative and detailed execution

· Very comfortable with technology and learning new tools. We operate in a Mac environment and you will be using sales tools, systems and software such as Zoom, SalesForce, Slack, Google Suite. Are you comfortable sorting, filtering and running basic spreadsheet reports? Running a mail merge for email?

· Ability to forge relationships internally and externally

· Ability to work with and maintain a sense of urgency

Benefits:

401(k)
Dental insurance
Disability insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Mileage reimbursement
Paid time off
Travel reimbursement
Vision insurance
Work from home