Sales Executive

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Location:

Office based in Century City, Cape Town

Type:
Full-time

Working hours:

9 AM - 6 PM UK time (11 AM - 8 PM SA summer, 10 AM - 7 PM SA winter). Shorter days during some of August.

Salary base: 20,000 - 35,000 Rand per month based on experience and performance. Different sales incentives run throughout the year to allow you to earn up to 50,000 Rand extra per annum.

Zen is revolutionising education. Schools spend over £2bn a year on agency staff, and £600m of that goes straight into the pockets of recruitment agencies. That’s why we’ve built an alternative. Our online platform gives schools instant access to hundreds of profiles of fully vetted teachers and support staff. Since launching in 2017, we’ve saved schools over £30m – money that goes straight back into school budgets and increases teachers’ pay.

This is your chance to join a tech startup in hypergrowth. We’re passionate about professional development, and we’ll work to maximise your personal and career growth. We're looking for enthusiastic, mission-driven people who fit our values and are passionate about what we do. We have recently raised our Series B funding of $37mil, the largest round in European EdTech this year.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a difference and be part of a high growth start-up that is expanding rapidly in the UK and US markets!

• Someone passionate and motivated, who loves being a part of a close team
• Proven track record of hitting sales targets
• Confident communicator able to work closely with a sales team and various other stakeholders
• Growth mindset — dedicated to growing your skills as a professional
• ion for companies that have a positive social impact and the education sector
• Strong bias to action
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to engage educators
• Care and empathy for the education sector and the challenges of working in it

• Calling candidates (Teachers, Teaching Assistants and other roles) to engage them with the Zen Educate platform and help them find work in UK schools as quickly as possible.
• Assessing educator quality based on their communication, experience and transferable skills.
• Follow up inbound and outbound leads and drive urgency in finding work through Zen Educate while providing all necessary documentation for compliance purposes.
• Interact with candidates in a friendly and helpful manner and maintain positive relationships to keep them on board with us and create a great candidate experience.
• Increase the number of talented candidates on our platform and help place them in roles by matching their skills to the schools’ requirements.
• Work collaboratively across the business with the sales and technology teams to help improve efficiency in providing value to candidates.
• Leveraging technology and tools within our app to provide efficient and unique to the industry candidate onboarding.

• At least 2 years of sales or client facing experience.

OR

• Experience working in or with the UK education sector.

• Work that you want to talk about
• Competitive salary
• 25 days of holiday in line with UK education term dates, plus UK bank holidays.
• Fun-loving, tight-knit team solving a problem that makes a difference

At Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer, more compassionate environment for all.

We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives — just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work.

We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions, beliefs, and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; we’ve had former teachers, pilots, fundraisers, engineers, lawyers, marketers, social media experts and more join our team.