Position: Account Manager
Location: Remote role covering the East and North of England
Salary: £30,000 – £35,000 (+ bonus)
Hours: Monday – Friday (09:00 – 17:30) with some evening/weekend
Benefits include: 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), enhanced pension contribution, attractive health benefits upon confirmation and after completion of the first years’ service, summer working hours and overseas travel to visit hubs
Experience: Account Management, Sales, Business Development, Lead Generation, New Business, B2B, B2C, Education Sales, Charity, Planning, Organising, Travel, Operations, Charity, Volunteering

Opportunity:

Thompson & Terry Recruitment is working with a purposeful business that is looking to recruit a passionate and enthusiastic Account Manager to drive their work with sixth form schools and colleges across the East and North of England.

As an Account Manager, it will be your job to take ownership of relationships with a number of schools and colleges in your assigned area, as well as reaching out to new potential partners, with the mission to inspire their students to want to take part in overseas programmes that help them grow as active Global Citizens.

The successful Account Manager will manage between 20-25 teams of students across 8-10 partners over the next 12 months as well as identifying growth opportunities both within current partners and new partners to meet growth targets. The Account Manager will have full ownership of the pre-trip support and administration. This includes things like pre departure training, arranging flights, preparing documentation, collating documentation and working closely with the overseas teams to ensure the smooth running of the programme.

The Account Manager vacancy is therefore well-suited to an energetic, passionate, and purposeful candidate who is looking for a multidimensional role. While the role is sales-focused, the successful candidate will also be responsible for nurturing relationships, being super organized, and having real attention to detail.

The Company:

Thompson & Terry Recruitment is working with a truly special organization with UK offices based in the south. They work with schools, universities, and students to inspire them to take part in once-in-a-lifetime overseas volunteering opportunities.

The entire business is socially driven and lives by a set of strong core values, with all of their trips supporting their charity. Therefore, it is important that the successful candidate completely buys into this mission.

The successful Account Manager will be supported by an experienced and passionate team, all driven to inspire young people to make a genuine difference in the lives of overseas communities.

In exchange for your hard work, you will be rewarded with comprehensive training, a genuine career path, and an incredibly rewarding job.

Requirements:

• A track record of excelling within a comparable role and a drive to ethically hit targets and build long-lasting relationships to make a real difference to young people and charity
• Extremely organized, with a high level of attention to detail and strong administrative experience
• A strong and engaging communicator with excellent written and verbal skills
• A real team player with the ability and autonomy to manage a varied workload and multitask
• Previous experience of traveling or volunteering would definitely be an advantage
• As there would be some travel associated with the job, a Full UK driving license with your own car would be required

Thompson & Terry Ltd, trading as Thompson & Terry Recruitment (thompsonandterry.co.uk), are an Abingdon based recruitment agency specialising in placing candidates into jobs in Oxford and across Oxfordshire. We typically source candidates into Office Administration Jobs, Sales Jobs and Marketing Jobs. No terminology used in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of any of the protected characteristics.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a high volume of applications, if you have not heard from us within 5 working days, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful at this time.