Are you passionate about Sales and want to make an impact? 

Academic Positions is a leading digital recruitment marketing and employer branding services provider for the global academic and research community. With over 13 years of experience, we have proudly partnered with more than 2,500 universities and research institutes across 60 different countries to assist in attracting exceptional talent. Our comprehensive solutions include job advertising, social media campaigns, and content marketing on academicpositions.com, as well as through external digital channels.

Our primary focus is to support our customers in filling PhD, postdoc, and professor positions while enhancing their recruitment strategies. By leveraging our expertise in higher education talent attraction, we strive to help our clients become better recruiters. Over the past decade, we've experienced consistent growth and have emerged as one of the foremost academic career platforms visited by more than 4 million academic job seekers a year.

About the role

As Sales Executive at Academic Positions, your primary objective will be to establish new and sustainable partnerships with universities and research institutes across the globe. Using Academic Positions’ full talent-attraction and employer branding offering, you will operate at the forefront of the company's sales force, booking and leading meetings with key stakeholders, building relationships, and identifying and pursuing high-potential business opportunities.

The role requires a structured and efficient approach and the team will provide you with relevant training necessary to get up to speed on our CRM system and sales process.

Your profile

• Excellent track record of new business acquisition.
• Ability to manage complex sales cycles and multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to respectfully challenge C-level decision-makers.
• A growth mindset and strong drive. You see challenges as opportunities.
• Thrives in an environment with short internal decision routes and a culture that encourages creative and entrepreneurial thinking.
• Enjoys working simultaneously on strategic and operative tasks both independently and as part of a team.
• Results-oriented and knows the importance of being persistent.
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written.
• Business experience from international public institutions is merit.

We are Academic Positions

Team spirit is at the core of our company. Our employees come from all over the world and we love to share experiences and dive into different cultures. New employees can learn from our very talented and experienced colleagues and get support from them throughout their Academic Positions journey. We strive to live up to our core values (proud, brave, curious, fun, and passionate) in everything we do and create a dynamic environment to facilitate personal growth and professional development. We work in a bright new office space with great views in the middle of the city centre.
 We are not just hard-working, we also love to have fun! Enjoy Table tennis, Tv-games and go out for the occasional after work—or have it at work as we have a fully stocked refreshment fridge Learn more about our team, people, and values at weare.academicpositions.com.

We evaluate candidates on an ongoing basis so we recommend that you apply early. We aim to respond to suitable candidates within 3 working days and an assessment is part of our selection procedure.

Duration
Permanent

Working hours
Full time

Employer
Academic Media Group International AB

Office location
Kungsgatan 60, 111 22, Stockholm

Website
www.academicpositions.com

Contact person
Jonas Marin 
Jonas.marin@academicpositions.com