*Sales Representative

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 1400 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. and in the U.K.

ATI Nursing Education, a brand of Ascend Learning, is the leading provider of online instruction, remediation, analytics, and consulting solutions for nursing programs. Founded in 1998, ATI uses progressive data analytics and compelling content to help nursing students master core content, develop into practice-ready nurses, and succeed on the NCLEX. Together with nursing schools, we're preparing the next generation of nurse leaders, ready to provide skilled and safe nursing care in a rapidly changing healthcare marketplace. Currently, ATI works with 20,000+ nurse educators, 2,500 nursing programs, and 225,000+ students.

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

This position requires that the employee be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unlessan exemptionhas been granted by Ascend Learning for a religious, health-related or other legally-mandated reason, which will be considered on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law. Individuals are considered "fully vaccinated" (1) two weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series (such as Pfizer or Moderna vaccines); or (2) two weeks after a single-does vaccine (such as Johnson & Johnson's Janssen vaccine).Ascend Learning's current policy also requires that individuals visiting our offices be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In line with our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of our employees, if we choose to interview you and you are fully vaccinated, we may invite you to interview in our office. If you are not fully vaccinated and we choose to interview you, we will arrange for a virtual interview.

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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