School Account Manager II

Job Description

The School Account Manager II is responsible for managing and selling Renaissance Learning’s products and services, within assigned territory, and achievement of revenue goals through prospecting, new business, customer renewals, cross-sell, and up-sell opportunities. 

The School Account Manager II has meaningful sales experience and brings developing expertise for cultivation and long-term development of customer relationships, maintaining high product renewal rates and strong collaboration with Customer Success partners and members of the Account Executive team. You will operate are the primary account contact for customers, increasing customer loyalty and retention while driving business value and expansion.

This position requires occasional travel for customer engagements, conferences, and other revenue-generating activities. We are ideally looking for someone who resides in either South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, or Alabama.

In this role as School Account Manager II, you will be responsible for:

• Managing Opportunities: Drive new business, cross/up-sell and renewal opportunities proactively by engaging multiple decision makers to ensure communication and agreement through the life of the opportunity and use internal and external networks to increase opportunity value. Grow assigned book of business to exceed revenue goals.
  
  
• Consultative Solution Selling: Understand and sell solutions aligned to customers’ unique problems and strategic objectives. Leads across the account team, internal, and external partners to develop winning solutions bringing value for both the customer and Renaissance.
  
  
• Closing Business: Understand and sell solutions aligned to customers’ unique problems and strategic objectives. Leads across the account team, internal, and external partners to develop winning solutions bringing value for both the customer and Renaissance.
  
  
• K-12 Education Acuity: Possesses a deep knowledge of the K-12 education space including public, private, and parochial schools. Strong understanding of K-12 districts and school administrative roles, funding, purchasing process, buying cycles, policies, practices, trends, and school board oversight. Knows customer workflows, contacts, and how they integrate into decision-making processes.
  
  
• Domain Expertise: Possess strong technical knowledge of common tools and trends in ed tech space; staying current on probable future state policies, practices, and information affecting customer businesses. Knows the competition and how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace.
  
  
• Credibility: Builds rapport based on factual accuracy, expertise across offerings, delivering on expectations and proactively providing market insights that inspire customers to think of Renaissance as a partner

• 4+ years with prior experience in sales
• Proficient in collaboration tools (e.g., Outlook, Microsoft Teams, etc.)
• Familiarity with CRMs and other sales technology (e.g., Salesforce, MS Dynamics)
• Knowledge of education customers, their organizational structures, and leadership personas
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills

Bonus Points:

• Experience in education sales
• Demonstrated capacity for resourcefulness and creative problem-solving

Salary Range: The base range for this position is $57,000 - $65,000 with a total target compensation (TTC) range of $104,000 - $120,000. This range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location.

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