Sales Development Representative

*Royal Staffing Group is hiring for this position on behalf of Zen Educate*

Zen Educate was featured in March 2024 as one of the UK's Tech Nation Future 50 growth companies!

Our Mission: We are creating a world where teachers and schools are no longer wasting time with expensive agencies because Zen allows them to reliably connect and get back to what really matters … our children!

UK schools spend well over £2bn per year on covering short-term absences with supply teachers. The current model exclusively relies on agencies who charge outsized commissions that eat into schools’ already-tight budgets. They are also terribly inefficient with everything being paper and phone-based. We are consolidating this analogue, fragmented, and inefficient marketplace onto a digital platform. Think Uber for supply teachers. In the process, we're pulling hundreds of millions of waste out of the education system and making a huge positive impact on teachers, schools and children.

We are well-funded by high-profile investors and are led by start-up veterans behind two of London's most prominent tech companies.

The opportunity:

This is your chance to join a tech startup in hypergrowth and start a successful career in sales. We’re passionate about professional development, and work with you consistently 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 are looking for you, if you:

• Are eager to develop a long successful career in sales.
• Love interacting with people regularly – teachers, teaching assistants and school leaders.
• Care deeply about doing work that makes a difference.
• Are resilient – not discouraged by things not going your way and quick to try again.
• Work hard and do whatever it takes to get results.
• Communicate confidently with anyone, including senior leaders, and can get a message across clearly and concisely.
• Hungry to invest time and effort in learning and developing your professional skills.
• Manage time carefully to maximise results and don’t get distracted easily.
• Get energy from chasing and smashing through targets.

Experience & Qualifications

• Interest in sales and/or recruitment.
• Proven track record of resilience and high quality work in your field of choice.
• Experience studying in the UK education sector or demonstrated passion for making a difference through education.
• Interest in start-ups and technology
• Teaching experience (advantage)

What you'll be doing

• Making calls to teachers and schools to promote Zen Educate as a superior alternative to traditional recruitment agencies.
• Follow up with school contacts and expand your network within schools to establish their need and potential value from Zen Educate and schedule meetings with them.
• Educate supply teachers on how they can use the Zen Educate app to level up their experience of supply teaching.
• Listen back to your calls, and your colleagues’ calls, to share best practices and to consistently improve your communication and persuasion skills.
• Get your hands dirty. Like any true start-up, no two weeks will be the same and a general interest in ‘mucking in’ and just getting the job done is crucial

What's in it for you?

• Work that you want to talk about
• Competitive salary
• Ownership in the company
• 25 days of holiday
• Central London office with perks like fresh fruit, yoga classes, bike parking, showers and an on-site gym and café
• Fun-loving, tight-knit team solving a problem that makes a difference
• Coaching
• Life Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Electric Car Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Private medical insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person