School Relationship Manager

We are looking for a proactive, customer-focused professional to join our Education International Sales team as a School Relationship Manager, to play a pivotal role in promoting our educational resources, curriculum, assessments, and qualifications products. This role is based in the UK, but will have regular travels to your designated regions in Europe. You will be the primary contact for schools, managing a portfolio of accounts and delivering tailored solutions through face-to-face and virtual engagements. You will build strong relationships with key decision makers, educational groups, and suppliers, while representing OUP at strategic events.

This role is responsible for achieving sales targets and contributing to divisional objectives by developing and executing strategic sales plans, maintaining accurate pipelines, and identifying new business opportunities. You will act as the first point of contact for customers in your territory, delivering tailored support through field visits, virtual meetings, and events. Your role involves monitoring market trends, providing competitor insights, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure customer satisfaction and data-driven decision-making. You will manage your own schedule and reporting duties, uphold professional standards, and continuously develop your product knowledge and consultative sales skills to match whole-school needs with effective solutions.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to present to large groups.
• Excellent collaboration, influencing and facilitation skills
• Strong negotiation skills and commercial awareness with an attention to detail
• Proven resilience working under pressure.
• Proven experience working with Compliance procedures or in High Risk Environments
• Excellent organisational and planning skills.
• Ability to work and travel independently.
• Sound and up to date understanding of the educational market & international curricula (desirable)
• Experience of working with a CRM system (desirable)

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with a sales bonus.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Please note this advert may be removed before the advertised end date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

In the region of £32,00 dependent on skills and experience