Educational Account Manager : Cambridge, UK - £30-40k (base + commission) + non-contributory pension + health/gym + share options

Do you want to be part of a market leader, a highly profitable growing company with open, friendly, and informal culture? Plus fantastic career development, great training and financial and other rewards?

An opportunity to apply your engineering/materials knowledge and to develop a business career with a rapidly growing, established Cambridge University spin-off. Our client are the materials information technology experts and work with leading high tech and engineering organizations such as NASA, Rolls-Royce, GE, and Honeywell and support teaching at over 600 universities worldwide. Their product is a unique educational product : a set of teaching resources, based around a powerful software package, that support university-level teaching of materials across a broad range of subjects. These include mechanical engineering, materials science, polymer engineering, bioengineering, architecture, design, and eco-design.. Correctly approached, senior academics love what they do. It makes their teaching life easier, saves time, connects topics curriculum-wide, and engages students with the subject.

The Role:
You could be part of the team that grows use of this great product to even more universities and extends into more subject areas. Using the telephone, doing remote demonstrations over the web to intrigued senior academics, your first job is to show how their goals can be more easily met with this product and to get them to use it. Then, you must work collaboratively with customers to help them succeed and to identify and involve colleagues who can extend its use. You will apply and develop skills not just in ?selling?, but in business strategy, communication with senior contacts, and long-term project work. There will be excellent opportunities for career advancement as the company grows.
Territory: Universities and colleges in North America and UK

The Person:
You will be articulate and confident in talking to people and display energy and determination.
You should want to advance your career in business and have sound ethics and integrity.

Qualifications and skills:
? A university degree. Ideally in engineering, materials, or science
? Prior sales experience 1-3 years and/or a clear aptitude for business development, with a natural
flair for sales
? Can work collaboratively with academics up to Head of Department and
? Languages: Fluent spoken / written English is essential. Additional languages helpful

You will get first class sales and marketing support, an uncapped commission plan, and join a fast-growing company recognized as a world-leader in its field.

Additional Resources Ltd is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as defined within The Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Businesses Regulations 2003