Sales Representative- East Texas - Teacher Created Materials

Teacher Created Materials is a 45+ year-old, award-winning publisher of educational and trade books, digital pro...

Minimum Qualifications:

3+ years in professional sales in the education or related industries OR 3+ years of education experience (teacher, administrator, etc.)

Bachelor's degree

Able to travel 25%

Able and comfortable working in field (assigned territory) 90% of the time

General Competencies:

Customer Focus: Making customers (external and internal) and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; developing and sustaining productive customer relationships; creating and executing plans and solutions in collaboration with the customer.

Communicating Effectively: Conveying information and ideas in a clear, meaningful, and timely manner, providing information to ensure understanding, soliciting input from the audience during communication.

Planning and Organizing: Establishing courses of action for self and/or others to ensure that work is completed efficiently in light of the strategies and destination of the department and/or organization.

Exerting Personal Influence: Persuading others to support or agree with an idea, issue, or position.

Acting with Integrity: Maintaining a commitment to honesty, models social, ethical, and organizational values, firmly adhering to codes of conduct and ethical principles.

Work Standards: Setting high standards of performance for self, assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks, self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.

Knowledge of the business: understands value from a customer perspective, stays informed, understands the organization, understands the educational market.

Building Value-Based Relationships: explores opportunities for relationships, identifies relationship needs, facilitates mutual agreement, develops credibility, maintains open lines of communication.

Physical Requirements:

Frequent travel by automobile.

Sit, stand, and walk for extended periods of time.

Must be able to carry up to 50 lbs. when traveling and/ or carrying materials to and from sales meetings and destinations.

Repetitive hand and wrist movements for frequent use of computer keyboard and mouse.

Work Conditions:

Home office  environment.

Frequent traveling (mostly by automobile).

Sit, stand, and walk for extended periods of time.

Must be able to carry up to 50lbs. when traveling and/or carrying materials to and from sales meetings and destinations.

Repetitive hand and wrist movements for frequent use of computer keyboard.

Teacher Created Materials is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.