Description
Location: London (preferred) or Birmingham
Working Arrangement: Hybrid working, Fulltime
Contract Duration: Maternity Contract minimum 12 months
Job Overview:
Do you have sales &/or recruitment sales management experience ideally within the education sector? Are you experienced with leading sales teams to reach their potential and be financially rewarded for their (and yours) success? As Head of Agency Sales, you will be working closely with our Chief Recruitment Officer to support marketing and B2B recruitment strategies to ensure our sales teams exceed our student intake targets through both our B2B agency channels. By working across different recruitment channels, your team will be promoting and selling our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, giving students the potential to develop and grow their knowledge and skills to progress their career opportunities. If you're driven, ambitious, commercial with a hunger to succeed… come join us!
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing the agency sales teams in regard to people and recruitment targets. Ensuring that the B2B agency recruitment channels and team reach and exceed targets.
- Developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Developing and identifying new business opportunities.
- Identifying and addressing potential challenges while suggesting prompt and efficient solutions.
- Managing recruitment pipeline whilst liaising with all key cross-functional internal departments.
- Measuring and analysing key performance indicators of the team while developing strategies to improve them.
- Focusing on how to deliver medium-term business strategies.
Required Experience:
- Excellent people management and development skills.
- Ability to deliver exceeding sales & quality targets.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Structured & clear communication skills.
- High level of business acumen.
- Track record of success in B2B sales/agency environment.
- Experience in using a CRM system.
- Track record of working in a customer-facing environment.
- Customer service experience both face-to-face & over the phone.
About Us:
QAHE is a private UK higher education provider working in partnership with UK universities to recruit for delivering a range of programmes from foundation level to undergraduate & postgraduate degrees. We currently teach over 17,000 students from all over the world.
Equal Opportunities Statement:
At QA Higher Education, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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