Open Window University Job Vacancy: Student Advisor/Sales Representative

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Career Guidance
•  Responding to Web Inquiries
• Responding to mail inquiries
• Assisting with telephonic inquiries
• Assisting prospects with registrations and following-up of outstanding documents to complete registrations
• Liaising with the finance department
• Tracking and reporting on target status
• Maintenance and updating of CRM System
• Lead nurturing and conversion
• Building and solidifying relationships with key stakeholders
• Work against strict activity and financial targets
• Working on the Open Window University’s internal CRM System
• Planning and analysis of presentations and prospective clients’ presentations.
• Recruitment of new business and maintaining existing clients

Creating Brand Awareness:

• Distributes marketing material
• Markets the brand in targeted areas and educates opinion leaders
• Facilitates presentations at schools and hands out interest cards
• Phone calls to parents and students to market the brand
• Represent the brand at career expos
• Facilitates stakeholder events
• Conduct follow up calls to prospective students and schedule appointments
• Schedules appointments by ensuring enough calls are made to database daily and weekly to deliver sufficient arrival of appointments to meet targets
• Respond to on-line and telephonic enquiries
• Presents the Open Window University’s philosophy
• Advises students on the course of interest and explains the Open Window University’s entrance criteria
• Stakeholder (Schools) Relationship Management

If and when required: Manage relations with all stakeholders to generate school presentation time slots

Sales Target Achievement:

• Achieve all set targets on a daily, weekly, monthly, annual basis, including targeted conversion ratios

Competencies

• Interpersonal and communications skills
• Best suited to a friendly, tenacious, target driven, organised person who works accurately and is able to handle pressure
• Time management skills
• An organised individual who is target driven and proactive
• Must have initiative and be able to formulate and implement plans
• Prepared and able to work inconvenient hours during busy periods
• Computer Literate

Minimum Education Requirements:

• Minimum of a National Diploma (three year) or Bachelor’s Degree in PR/Business/Marketing/Communications/Sales

Minimum Work Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years’ sales experience
• Valid driver’s licence and own vehicle essential