Education Sales Consultant

Background

Leading Education is a rapidly growing international education consultancy focused on helping ambitious students to achieve places at world-leading universities. Our online tuition programme is designed to help students develop the curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking skills to win a place at Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, LSE or Medical schools. We have doubled our revenue year-on-year since our inception, and we now deliver over 20,000 hours of tuition a year.

Alongside our commercial work, we run a highly successful Oxbridge Access Programme helping students from under represented backgrounds.

The Role

We are looking for someone who can make an impact on a dynamic, fast-moving company by joining the team as an Education Consultant in a sales capacity. This role will play a vital role in Leading Education as an organisation.

The role is very client-facing; you will be meeting with many students, parents, and other stakeholders every day. It is a demanding sales role with clear targets, while placing students' educational needs at the forefront of every conversation.

It is a role with a huge potential for growth and lots of autonomy from day one.

Responsibilities of this role include:

• Providing high-quality pedagogical consultations for students considering applications to Oxbridge and other top UK universities, across a wide range of subjects
• Using your commercial acumen to advise students about the paid services offered by Leading Education, acting as a trusted mentor to students and parents
• Contributing to our rapidly growing UK and international marketing and sales strategies
• Working closely with students through online consultations, mentoring them throughout the application process, leading them on their journey to their dream university
• Playing a pivotal role in the commercial success of the company by pushing forward new leads to drive sales cycles towards completion

Benefits of the Role

• Chance to make an impact in a rapidly growing company, at an exciting stage in our development.
• Responsibility from day one in a flat structure – we get things done quickly without layers of bureaucracy
• We operate a hybrid model of working, which currently involves at least 2 days in the office in London (ideally 3) and up to 3 days working from home
• Make a large-scale, tangible impact by helping thousands of students a year from diverse backgrounds win a place at their dream university
• Dynamic, friendly team with a culture of openness and radical transparency
• High performers will have regular international travel opportunities to Europe, Asia and the Americas when the role develops

Qualifications

• Determined, self-driven, high energy. You are tenacious and stop at nothing to make sure students are receiving high-quality customer service. Highly responsive and persistent
• Commercial acumen. The ability to balance pedagogical and sales objectives within consultations
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to quickly make a connection with students and other clients
• Top-notch organisational skills and attention to detail required to process various workflows and manage multiple systems with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency
• Dedicated to working with demographics that have historically been underserved and under-resourced. Passionate about fair access to university education
• Understanding of UK education. This may be because you went to a UK university yourself, or because you have worked in the education sector previously
• Commitment to protecting the welfare and safeguarding of children

Preferred but not essential:

• Experience in a (B2C) sales or fundraising role
• Attended Oxbridge or G5 universities

How to Apply

The preferred start date is flexible and negotiable for the right candidate. However, we prefer to fill the position asap and by December at the latest. If you are interested in applying, we would love to hear from you! Please apply by clicking Apply to send a CV to Matt with a statement about why you are interested in the position.

Salary details are available upon request.