Now Hiring - Education Sales Representative in Seattle, WA

Ascend Learning is a national leader in data driven, online educational solutions for learners, educators and employers in high-growth, licensure-driven professions spanning healthcare, fitness and wellness, skilled trades, insurance, and financial services. We are passionate about accelerating learning while impacting job readiness, employment success and employee retention with the belief that our work changes lives.

Our culture is intentionally results-driven and selfless with a relentless focus on our customers. We believe in trust, transparency, freedom, and responsibility with a commitment to meritocracy, inclusion, and diversity of thought. Continual investment in our over 1500 employees is also a core principle realized through ongoing professional development and providing opportunities to grow, develop and lead. Ascend Learning is headquartered in Burlington, MA with additional office locations and remote workers in cities across the U.S.

Ascend Learning’s Nursing Segment is fueled by a commitment to excellence in nursing education. Our nursing brands — ATI, APEA, and NursingCE — offer evidence-based solutions designed to develop practice-ready nurses who are prepared for board certification and clinical practice. We use data analytics and engaging learning tools to help nursing students master core content. And we provide nursing education programs and professionals with best-in-class support and expertise from some of the sharpest minds in nursing education. We aid nurse educators in understanding students’ comprehension based on nearly two decades of data — including more than 12 million proctored assessments — that detail student learning and performance. The result is customers who are confident in the advice and guidance we provide with our quality-focused assessments and positive outcomes.

ATI Nursing Education is hiring a Partner Support Specialist-outside sales representative that will be responsible for selling our e-learning products into nursing schools within Oregon, Washington and Alaska. This is a remote position living in the Portland or Seattle area preferred. Other major cities in Oregon/Washington considered.

Responsibilities:

• Working in a sales capacity to ensure service coverage, always keeping abreast of current market conditions in the nursing education field.
• Responsible for accurately representing all ATI nursing products, product updates, service offerings and new technologies.
• Provide information and/or follow up on customer needs as requested.
• Particular emphasis is placed on the Partner Support Specialist’s ability to build and maintain strong, high quality relationships with customers simultaneous to increasing the size of the account base and sales volumes. This should be done by working with customers via telephone conversations, email and/or in person by traveling as frequently as necessary within the territory to meet and surpass sales goals for the region.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Sales experience
• Minimum two years of consultative selling experience is preferred

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong preference for candidates who have been accountable for motivating and energizing audiences to embrace the need for assessment driven performance
• Experience having adapted personal communication and work styles with geographical attitudinal differences
• Success forming multiple customer relationships which have resulted in long-term relationships
• Past success where it was consistently required to present one-on-one, to large, and small group audiences providing information/instruction but in an energizing and persuasive manner
• Participates in territory management
• Ability to manage multiple projects and resources simultaneously
• Strong business acumen
• Proficient with Microsoft Applications
• Strong relationship building skills
• Overnight travel ~25% of the time to customer meetings, corporate trainings, and conferences
• Travel to clients daily
• Candidates for the Partner Support Specialist position are required to have a valid driver’s license and be able to maintain business expense submissions for reimbursement

Ascend Learning, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S. based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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