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This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/12616065 Executive Director, Inside Sales, K-12

College Board - State & District Partnerships

Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).

Type: This is a full-time position

About the team

The State and District Partnerships (SDP) team at College Board is a dynamic and high-energy group dedicated to expanding opportunities for students by collaborating with educators in high schools, school districts, and state departments of education. Our team, consisting of over 100 highly engaged staff members, is committed to promoting the use of College Board programs and services, including the SAT Suite of Assessments, Advanced Placement (AP), and BigFuture. Our division is relentless in our pursuit of increasing the number of students who have access to these programs and ensuring our partners have the supports they need to implement them effectively.

Within SDP, the Business Planning & Operations (BP&O) team focuses on developing and implementing efficient business processes across the division and with cross-organizational teams to ensure the seamless delivery of our programs. We leverage data, observation, experience, and creativity to guide decision-making and process development making all of our teams in SDP more effective.

About the opportunity

As the Executive Director, you will report to the Vice President, Sales and Operations, and you will be responsible for creating and executing our 3-5-year inside sales strategy with support from our various regional teams. In doing so, you will lead and manage the Inside Sales team to achieve enterprise, divisional, and regional goals that have broad impact within and across the College Board. You will work in close partnership with other leaders in SDP as well as our program teams for Advanced Placement, the SAT Suite, and BigFuture. This also includes collaboration with our communications and marketing as well as Technology teams.

In this role, you will:

Manage & Coach Your Team (40%)

• Lead, mentor, and manage the inside sales team to achieve weekly, monthly, and quarterly sales targets.

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Conduct analysis to inform data dr ven decisions (30%)

• Prepare and present regular sales reports to the VP of Sales and Operations, highlighting key performance indicators and progress towards targets.

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{=html} <!-- --> - Identify and elevate to the VP of Sales and Operations, and Regional Vice Presidents, regional trends from a variety of data sources (e.g., progress to goal, pipeline data and other sources) to both inform regional strategies and decision-making as well as divisional and program sales strategies.

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Develop and drive inside strategy based on business need (30%)