Essential Skills:
- Experience working in either Education or Sport sectors
- An understanding of sports structures
- An understanding of education pathways
The following would also be an asset:
- Sales / Commercial Experience
- Relevant degree
We are very excited about our growing Thomas Sport and Thomas Education businesses and we’re now looking for sales consultants to work across this joint function and to introduce Thomas assessments into both sectors.
Within Thomas Sport, our assessments help teams, coaches and athletes to become more self-aware, understand their emotional intelligence and have a greater focus to ultimately be more successful.
Thomas Education was established to introduce assessments into schools and education centres to help young people develop self-awareness, and gain a greater understanding of their strengths in relation personal development, academic achievement and career / progression choices
Reporting to the Head of Sport and Education, your key responsibilities will include:
- Generating, developing and managing a growing portfolio of sport and education clients
- Attending networking events on a regular basis to generate leads
- Providing consultancy for sport and education clients, adopting a solution-focused approach
- Managing client relationships
- Contributing to the success of the Sport and Education team, by providing specialist knowledge and skills within the sectors to support the strategic development of the business.
Suitable applicants will ideally have a background in sales, in the sport or education sectors. You will be comfortable working to sales targets to assist in the development of the Thomas Sport and Thomas Education businesses.
Due to the nature of this role, you will be subject to a DBS check.
The Job Profile suggests that the job requirement is for a person who enjoys working with and through people. The incumbent should be friendly and have the drive to achieve results through a logical and systematic approach. The job environment requires actively influencing and motivating a variety of people in changing situations. The person fulfilling the role should have strong influencing skills as selling a product or a concept must be accomplished by gaining willing acceptance. The job could include specialist/technical skills and the incumbent should enjoy challenging situations and have the ability to work within the broad parameters of the organisation. The ideal person for this position will be positive, participative, self-confident, friendly, self-starting, competitive, inquisitive, imaginative, factual, consistent and somewhat conventional and self- disciplined. Activity, mobility, flexibility, variety and pace are also likely to be important aspects within the function.
Thomas International provides people assessments which empower business leaders to transform the performance of their teams and individuals – and deliver an immediate impact on their organisation.
We help our clients recruit, retain, develop and manage their people. We’ll give insight into staff – what motivates them, their core strengths and limitations, and their potential. And we’ll add a high level of certainty to all people-related decisions.
Thomas is different because our assessments are straightforward to understand and quick to use, with rapid results. Our client service teams will train and advise and provide practical assistance. Their aim is to empower managers to use people assessments to create maximum value for their organisation.
Thomas has been at the forefront of assessment innovation for 34 years. We provide assessments in 56 languages and have a presence in over 60 countries. Today we are working with 32,000 companies and 250,000 trained Thomas users worldwide. Our clients span every type of business of all sizes and complete over 1.5 million assessments every year.
The Thomas Group of Companies also includes Thomas Education and Thomas Sport.