Regional Account Manager

Salary: £43,000 per annum plus OTE bonus and car allowance

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Remote (UK based), with travel required to Lancaster (UK) Head Office as required. This role involves frequent travel and overnight stays.

Contracted Hours: 35 hours per week Monday to Friday (flexible working considered)

Number of positions available: 1

• 1 x Regional Account Manager, areas covered: North West & Midlands

About Us

Ascentis is a market-leading qualification provider with a strong growth trajectory.

As an Awarding Organisation, we develop and accredit qualifications to Colleges, Training Providers, and the Adult Education market.

We are market leading in the education sector and the specialist areas we operate within, maintaining the #1 provision for ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) and Access in the UK. We are based in Lancaster but have a National reach and hold top positions in all areas we operate within and have a dominant market share in London.

Leveraging our success in Further Education, we have recently launched Virtual Academy Limited (VAL), a new e-learning arm within our group of companies supporting learning and development in the workplace providing an easily accessible, affordable, and dynamic platform for employers to manage training for their staff.

Our commercial drive in this charitable sector provides a hybrid culture of helping learners to achieve ongoing success that is both enjoyable and rewarding. Further information on Ascentis can be found on our website. www.ascentis.co.uk

Due to sustained success in the UK and internationally, we now have an opportunity for two commercially driven people to join our team.

At Ascentis, we pride ourselves on investing in our people. Don’t just take our word for it… we were awarded the Red Rose Employer of the Year 2021, have been featured in a reward strategy book for our innovative approach to employee recognition and for the last 2 years, 100% of our employees said they would recommend Ascentis as a great place to work. We are also extremely proud of the internal progression of many of our talented people. In a 12 month period of 2021/22, 20% of employees were promoted!

To find out what our employees have to say about working at Ascentis watch the video found here.

Job Description

As a Regional Account Manager, you will be responsible for maintaining and growing the Ascentis provision inclusive of subsidiary Virtual Academy Limited (VAL) with accounts in your assigned region. The role will require a split focus across Ascentis and VAL offerings, ensuring opportunities are maximised at the correct points throughout the year.

You will present Ascentis qualifications at a variety of internal and external events, gaining new business from new and existing centres, visiting education providers to promote Ascentis qualifications, meeting targets, and taking forward new business initiatives.

In addition to recruiting new customers, the role requires a focus on relationship management, servicing all current customer accounts within the assigned region, ensuring the highest level of customer service, supporting our customers to facilitate further cooperation and growth.

You will be required to establish and maintain meaningful communication with your assigned accounts through both virtual and physical meetings. Travel is an essential part of the role visiting your assigned regions, current and potential customers.

You should be an excellent team player with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills. You would need to have soft-sale, communication, and presentation skills. It is essential that you are an ambitious goal-orientated person as this is a target driven role.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate and will be fully rewarded with a highly competitive bonus scheme. Full training on our products will be provided.

If you really want to wow us, having experience selling Educational products before would be an advantage, however this is not essential.

To view the full job description, please click here

So, what are you waiting for?

If you like the sound of the role and the organisation, and you think the below attributes describe you well, then we would love to hear from you.

• To discuss this post further please contact Alexander Houghton, National Account Manager by email at [email protected]
• Closing date Monday 9th September 2024

We reserve the right to close this job, if we find an appointable candidate before the closing date.

Benefits at Ascentis

• Up to 43 days of annual leave. 25 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays, birthday day off, closure days gifted during the Christmas period, increased annual leave with long service and an Annual Leave Purchase Scheme.
• Competitive pension benefits, including a salary sacrifice scheme
• Access to Informal Flexibility, allowing you to flex your working times and location where viable.
• Incremental service benefits as a family-friendly employer, including enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental and Adoption Leave and Pay, Sick Pay, Life Insurance, and Compassionate Leave with Pay
• Reward and recognition scheme, regular team building and communication activities.
• Access to state of the art office and break facilities, including pool table, xbox, outdoor seating, indoor herb garden, dressing room, harry potter reading room, employee library and more
• Tailored learning and development opportunities
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Technology purchase scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• 24-hour Employee Helpline and a proactive focus on wellbeing