Account Executive

As an Account Executive at Cambridge Spark, you will introduce best-in-class Data and AI training solutions to NHS and Public Sector organisations, helping to drive business transformation through cutting-edge skills enablement. Our programmes empower teams with the critical capabilities needed for the AI era. You will engage with senior executives and operational teams alike, conveying how Cambridge Spark's solutions can solve their most pressing challenges. Beyond client impact, you will help to shape Cambridge Spark's future best practices, playing a key role in our growth. Your success will set the foundation for both the company's and your own accelerated career trajectory and earnings., Externally

• Be the face and voice of Cambridge Spark during client calls, conferences, and events
• Develop new business opportunities through outward sales activity
• Work toward individual and team targets for new client acquisition
• Help organisations from your account territory to directly attribute ROI to transformational data & AI skills development.
• Make it your mission to positively impact the careers and lives of your customers' learners, by helping them to join Cambridge Spark's cutting edge programmes
Internally
• Achieve your quarterly and yearly net new business revenue targets.
• Prioritise pipeline generation, shooting high with your initial outreach: C-level senior data stakeholders and L&D teams
• Maintain a transparent appraisal system across all KPIs with your manager and with yourself.
• Keep CRM and data up to date at all times
• To support with any ad-hoc duties or requests that may be reasonably required to successfully carry out the role or to support the business, Combined screening and hiring manager interview (1 hour)
• Presentation and follow up questions (1 hour)
• Ways of Working/Meet the Team (45 minutes)
• Final interview with our CEO (30 minutes)
Company Benefits:
• Pension with 4% matched contributions, opportunity to opt into salary sacrifice scheme
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• A day for volunteering
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month
• Annual Summer and Xmas events
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
• CPD Allowance alongside quarterly reflections to ring fence time for development and growth
• Private medical insurance and cash plan
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
• Employee Assistance Programme with a dedicated company counsellor
  
  You are a self-starter who does not wait for ready answers to be delivered to them
• You spend your energy on outcomes that you can influence directly
• You get joy out of helping others to get better - and never settle for second best yourself
• You are equally as optimistic about reaching your objective, as you are pessimistic about whether you have done everything to make it happen
• You are a through and through lifelong learner, [essential] Well-established B2B sales track record of consistent overperformance
• [essential] Ability to qualify sales through MEDDIC
• [essential] A project management approach to running deals, once initially qualified
• [important] Experience working in a fast-paced environment
• [bonus] Familiarity with productivity apps: Hubspot, G-Suite, Gong, Sales Nav, Notion
• [bonus] Previous experience at a top-5 learning or data vendor
  
  We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.
We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets. Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m.