Manager, Strategic Accounts, Education; Remote

Manager, Strategic Accounts, Education (Remote)

ez Cater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ez Cater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 customer service with real humans. ez Cater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform.

For restaurant partners, ez Cater helps them grow their business by bringing them more orders and new high‑value customers. We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, Soft Bank, and Quadrille.

As the Manager of Strategic Accounts, Education at ez Cater, you will be responsible for leading and developing a high‑performing team of Strategic Account Executives focused on the Education vertical. Your leadership will be central to fostering their skills, refining processes, and utilizing tools to effectively present, close, and earn the trust of our Corporate Customers, thereby growing the adoption of ez Cater features.

You will drive team performance by developing and managing account growth plans with Corporate Customers, working closely with internal teams to enhance business input metrics such as new user addition, strategic meetings with key decision‑makers, and maintaining pipeline management to ultimately drive total account GMV. Your role will involve successfully acquiring Strategic Corporate Accounts and driving incremental growth within existing accounts.

• Hire and develop Strategic Account Executives as they improve their skills, processes, and tools to effectively present, close, and ultimately earn the trust of our Education Customers to grow adoption of ez Cater features.
• Lead your team to drive performance through developing and managing account growth plans with Corporate Customers in tandem with internal teams to improve business input metrics across new users added, targeting and meeting with key Decision Makers and Influencers, as well as key pipeline management and hygiene to ultimately drive total account GMV.
• Drive the successful acquisition of a target set of Strategic Education Accounts, as well as drive incremental expansion in existing Strategic Education Accounts.
• Demonstrate excellent time‑management skills and the ability to work independently while using centralized resources, policies and procedures.
• Streamline and/or eliminate excess processes, hold partner teams accountable for improvement, reduce dependencies and eliminate problems that stifle innovation or cause customer dissatisfaction.
• Represent ez Cater at various customer facing events, including but not limited to industry‑focused conferences, trade shows or other general opportunities.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• 5+ years of B2B and/or Enterprise Sales Management experience, leading teams who sell into complex/networked organizations.
• 6+ years of business facing sales or negotiation experience working with and influencing large businesses.
• Experience using analytical, sales, and productivity tools including Salesforce (or other CRM) and G‑Suite.
• Experience delivering cross‑functional projects that innovate on behalf of the customer.
• Experience leading a team to achieve multi‑year growth targets and goals.
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics/KPIs to determine improvements and identify opportunities.
• Experience selling into Education entities with knowledge of purchasing cooperatives and tax exemption requirements.
• Experience selling to procurement and/or supply chain roles.
• Proven success driving results through account development from prospecting, to scaling, to multi‑year account growth.
• Comfortable with “hands‑on” management of tasks, and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• High threshold for working in an ambiguous, fast‑paced start‑up like environment – figuring it out and adapting as you go.
• Proven ability to manage multiple, competition priorities simultaneously without sacrificing the ability…