Senior Account Manager
Glen Ellyn, DuPage County, Illinois, 60138, USA
Listed on 2025-12-08
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Sales
Business Development, Sales Development Rep/SDR -
Business
Business Development
Senior Account Manager – Training Solutions
Remote – U.S. Based | Full-Time | Must be eligible to work for any U.S. employer
No recruiters, please.
A respected global professional organization is conducting a confidential search for an experienced, strategic, and relationship-driven Senior Sales Leader to drive growth across its highly regarded educational products and services portfolio. This role is ideal for a seasoned sales professional who thrives at both the strategic and tactical levels—someone who can design growth strategies, coach a sales team, deepen customer relationships, and close high-impact deals.
If you excel at selling non-tangible professional services, building consultative relationships, and creating long-term value for customers, this is a rare opportunity to lead sales efforts at an established organization with an international footprint.
What You’ll DoYou will shape the future of the organization’s education and training revenue by:
Sales Strategy & Growth Leadership- Developing short- and long-term sales strategies and evaluating the effectiveness of current sales programs.
- Identifying new markets, audiences, and outreach opportunities.
- Recommending product and service enhancements that increase customer satisfaction and revenue potential.
- Designing new sales initiatives to capture key customer demographics.
- Meeting or exceeding annual revenue targets across instructor-led training, virtual courses, certification programs, and related education products.
- Managing a robust pipeline through outbound sales activity, strategic prospecting, and partner engagement.
- Routing inbound leads and ensuring follow-up quality across the sales team.
- Traveling as needed (up to 20%) to cultivate relationships, support customers, and close deals.
- Developing new customers while nurturing relationships with key corporate clients.
- Preparing tailored training proposals and overseeing training contracts to ensure exceptional customer experience.
- Supporting and managing training partners in their sales efforts.
- Cross-selling across the organization’s entire catalog of educational offerings.
- Administering corporate online sales through the Learning Management System (LMS).
- Leveraging CRM tools (preferably Salesforce) for pipeline visibility, forecasting, and customer insights.
- Collaborating closely with internal teams to align sales initiatives with product development and customer needs.
You are confident, resourceful, and energized by the challenge of growing a mission-driven education portfolio.
Required Experience & Skills- 10+ years of successful outside sales experience
, with proven performance in consultative or intangible product sales. - Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
- Strong communication, relationship-building, and customer-service skills.
- Ability to think creatively, pivot quickly, and adapt to changing market demands.
- Experience in telemarketing or inside sales processes.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and comfort working with digital platforms, CMS tools, and LMS environments.
- Strong organizational and planning abilities; capable of managing a complex workload in a dynamic environment.
- CRM proficiency —
Salesforce experience strongly preferred
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- Familiarity with professional training programs, certification models, or education products.
- Understanding of the instrumentation, automation, or technical training markets (a strong plus, but not required).
- Self-starter with a proactive approach
- Personable, engaging, relationship-oriented
- Excellent listener and communicator
- Creative problem-solver with the ability to think outside the box
This is a remote, home-based role
. Candidates must reside within the continental United States and be eligible to work for any U.S. employer.
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