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HMH is seeking a Senior Account Executive for the Southwest region, preferably residing in California, to drive revenue growth by acquiring new customers in the K-12 education sector.

Responsibilities: The role involves relationship building, territory planning, lead development, and managing the sales pipeline to acquire new partners for educational solutions.

Skills: Key skills include proven sales success, strong communication abilities, negotiation skills, and familiarity with Salesforce for CRM management.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree, 6+ years of field sales experience, and prior classroom teaching or school leadership experience.

Location: Position preferably based in California, covering territories including AZ, NM, CA, and HI, with up to 50% travel required.

Compensation: $90000 - $95000 / Annually

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

Job Title: Senior Account Executive, Southwest

Location: Southwest (prefers candidates to reside in CA)

For over 30 years, The Center for Model Schools, formerly the International Center for Leadership in Education, has been dedicated to ensuring that every child attends a model school. Teachers and leaders from the classroom to the boardroom can partner with us for shoulder-to-shoulder support to make this happen. 

Job Responsibilities:

Through effective relationship building, the Senior Account Executive is accountable for acquiring and providing service solutions to new customers that meet the needs of school districts in an assigned territory. The Senior Account Executive, works with a regional team, led by a Director, focused on selling prospect districts from 3,000 and above in student enrollment. Sr. Account Executive partners with a Director of Professional Learning who is focused on ensuring renewals, retention, and growth of existing customer/partner relationships. This Sr. Account Executive position should reside in a state within the territory.

The Senior Account Executives’ key areas of work is focused on acquiring new partners and includes identifying and building strategic relationships in district accounts, lead development and qualification, establishing territory plans that focus selling activity and successfully managing a sales pipeline of opportunities.

• Drive revenue growth through acquisition of new partners in the assigned territory.
• Drive lead development, qualification, and conversion into opportunities and closed sales.
• Design strategies that address customer needs and issues while meeting assigned quota.
• Strategically plans sales calls by outlined objectives and action steps.
• Read the market, recognize trends, and communicate that information to leadership
• Identify the processes and procedures specific to each district, and the key issues for each account.
• Respond to customers’ requests and problems with appropriate timeliness and concern.
• Develop professional credibility and trust with the customer.
• Provide timely and complete information needed for consultants and outside resources to perform effectively in the territory.
• Converse comfortably with customers and understand their needs.
• Effectively communicate the features, advantages, and benefits of each product.
• Gain and display a thorough knowledge of state and local adoption timelines in order to be at the right place at the right time.
• Manage complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Demonstrate current knowledge of NWEA products and services and the education market, including issues, trends, relevant laws, and competition; inform partners about features and benefits of products and services on a regular and proactive basis using consultative sales process.
• Use Salesforce to manage prospect opportunities and pipeline for new products and services; keep data accurate and up to date; use Salesforce for prospect, pipeline and regional reports and dashboards.
• Present price, credit, and terms in accordance with standard procedures and/or contractual requirements. Accurately process and schedule partner transactions including quotes and orders.

Skills and abilities

• Able to successfully move deals through the sales cycle, negotiate and close deals.
• Proven track record of selling success and ability to exceed personal and team goals.
• Skilled in analyzing and translating complex partner requirements into CMS business offering, resulting in sound business and relationship decisions.
• Assist in defining and evaluating deliverables, parameters and language for partnership and agreements and contracts.
• Aptitude to inspire, unify and work with cross-organizational teams.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Exhibit excellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong presentation skills.
• Demonstrate commitment to the CMS mission and culture.
• Ability to successfully manage sales relationships, pipeline, and opportunities in CRM system (Salesforce experience preferred). 
• Exhibit knowledge of education market, school and business operations and functions with ability to have impactful conversations with senior school and district contacts and administrators.
• Diverse personal network of educators is a plus.
• Strategic focus in developing and executing territory plans.
• Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role, with or without accommodation.

Education and Experience:

• This position requires a bachelor’s degree in education, Business, Marketing or Liberal Arts or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Preferred 6+ years field sales experience
• Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time through a combination of domestic air travel and driving a car.
• Educational Services sales experience preferred
• Preferred Classroom Teaching or School Leadership experience.

Territory: AZ, NM, CA, HI (prefers candidates to live in CA)

Benefits and Salary Range

Salary Range: $90,000 - $95,000 + commissions

Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on 10/24/25. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date but is not guaranteed.

HMH is fully committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting, retaining, developing and promoting the most qualified employees without regard to race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity, ethnic/national origin, ancestry, age, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, citizenship status, status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran, other covered veteran, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment, and where employees are treated with respect and dignity. We actively participate in E-Verify.