Sales Manager Online Masters

Are you an entrepreneur at heart? Do you thrive in an agile environment with a start-up mentality? Join our fresh and forward-thinking team within an established institution. Are you ready to make an impact in education and explore new paths? Then you could be our new colleague for the Online Masters team.

Job description
As Sales Manager you execute and coordinate the sales activities for the Online Master Programmes of Rotterdam School of Management and the Erasmus School of Economics.

To help achieve this, we need a skilled and motivated self-starter who can execute our sales strategy to increase our market share and conversion numbers. You will be part of our Online Masters team that prepares the launch for two new Online Master programmes. As a Sales Manager, you are responsible for nurturing and converting potential participants for our Online Masters. This is done by incorporating a commercial mindset and the best practices on consultative selling, social selling and inbound sales throughout our sales funnel.

Additionally, you will work closely together with your colleagues in the Online Masters team who take care of marketing, admissions and programme management. You will report to Associate Director Online Masters.

Your daily activities and responsibilities include:

• Nurturing leads throughout the customer journey, and removing barriers to register by understanding and using market developments and insights
• Thinking of new tactics and initiatives to optimise conversion
• Executing current and new tactics to increase conversion, such as information sessions and webinars
• Generate profitable sales for the department by converting leads into registrations for Open Programmes
• Working closely with marketing for an optimal marketing and sales funnel, by implementing tactics to deliver an excellent customer journey

• A Bachelor or Master degree, preferably in business, with relevant work experience
• Approximately 3 years’ experience in a similar role
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills in English
• Good knowledge of the Dutch language, at least A2 level
• Hand-on, flexible and adaptive attitude
• Experience in or have affinity with the higher education sector
• Flexible orientation and willingness to work outside normal business hours
• Ability to work effectively with wide range of constituencies in a diverse community
• Knowledge of different CRM systems is beneficial
• Self-starting and entrepreneurial mindset, preferably with shown experience in a start-up situation
• Comfortable in communicating with people from a range of backgrounds, cultures and professional standing

Preferably you also have:

• Excellent advisory skills, being able to influence customers in the decision-making process
• The ability to collaborate with others on a common goal
• The ability to be very well-informed regarding developments in the market and make effective use of this knowledge for the benefit of the organisation
• Experience with Online Masters/education and a true believer of this vision of next step higher education

We offer an ambitious, international and dynamic environment, in which we compete with the top business schools in Europe. You will be part of a close, innovation-driven team on a vibrant university campus. Your ambition and personal drive will be greatly valued and we invest in personal development. We make sure you feel good about yourself, that you enjoy your work and that you grow in your profession.

You will also get:

• A salary between € 4,000 – € 5,000 gross per month on fulltime basis (ex. holiday allowance), based on your education, knowledge and work experience.
• 25 holidays and 12 ADV days.
• Annual 8% holiday allowance.
• Variable end of year performance bonus.
• The flexibility to work from home with most of your working hours spent in the office
• Travel cost reimbursement and working from home allowance.
• The opportunity to participate in our collective health insurance.
• Access to all facilities on campus.
• Participation in our collective pension scheme.
• The possibility to travel with NS business card.

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (RSM BV) is one of Europe’s most international and innovative business schools. Its primary focus is to develop business leaders with international careers who can become a force for positive change by carrying their innovative mindset into a sustainable future. RSM BV is privately funded and provides a first-class portfolio of bachelor, master, MBA, PhD and executive programmes with an international team of 100 staff working from the university campus in Rotterdam.

RSM BV offers an environment where the staff is encouraged to embrace change as a challenge in helping the organisation reaching its goals and those of its students. The working atmosphere at RSM BV is informal and communication lines are short. Being an independent and commercial company within the Erasmus University, the situation of RSM BV is sometimes complex and challenging. At the same time the company itself it small enough to maintain personal contacts and be able to have an overview of what’s going on throughout the organisation. The environment is culturally diverse and very international.

RSM BV is located in a pleasant and relatively small office, based at the Erasmus University campus in Rotterdam. It’s a lively environment, with students, staff and different companies and restaurants. The office is easy to reach by public transport as well as by car.

RSM BV is an equal opportunity employer and explicitly encourages applications from candidates of all genders, ethnicities and nationalities. RSM BV values internal mobility; therefore internal candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information, please visit the RSM BV website: www.rsm.nl

If you see yourself as a person who thrives to work in an innovative, stimulating and growing environment, please send in a CV and cover letter (in English) to Charlotte Bakermans, HR Director, Rotterdam School of Management BV using the application button.