Associate Director of Government Accounts - Higher Education

Position Title

Associate Director of Government Accounts - Higher Education

Salary Range

Associate Director of Government Accounts (Grade 17, Exempt). Annual salary range: $114,320 – $142,900. This range reflects the minimum to midpoint of the grade. Salary may exceed the midpoint and will commensurate with experience.

Job Description Summary

The person in this position assists in providing leadership, management, financial accountability, compliance, planning, and oversight to the assigned Government Accounts team. This position is directly responsible for establishing and achieving Revenue and Margin goals for Cooperative Purchasing and other solutions.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Assist the Director in managing the Government Accounts team to achieve P&L (Revenue and Margin) goals
• Manage activities of assigned team members to achieve the P&L goals for the business unit.
• Lead the development of annual Go-To-Market plans for assigned accounts to leverage the Agency Channel to drive Revenue and Margin.
• Develop Revenue and Margin (expense) budgets for the assigned accounts to achieve assigned Revenue and Margin goal.
• Manage the activities of assigned team members in the team
• Assist with leading the team by delegating authority to team members to conduct daily operations while providing oversight to ensure that the unit operates according to the Cooperative Purchasing Program Document and other Solution Program Documents and complies with all compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Manage the process of developing and maintaining strong relationships with participating agencies to ensure that Sourcewell is the preferred Cooperative for these agencies. This includes.
• Manages a sales process that starts with the initiation of client participant outreach through conversion, interest, consideration, and adoption
• Ensures that participating agency embracement increases by cultivating leads through intention outreach strategies.
• Ensuring that we deliver high touch support and meet service quality and timing goals for all inquiries
• Developing procedures to ensure positive agency experiences by providing accurate, high quality, consultative answers to agency questions.
• Training the team on the details of Cooperative Purchasing or other solutions.
• Developing Account Plans and conducting regular meetings with accounts to drive revenue.
• Coordinating with the Cooperative Purchasing team to respond to inquiries received through suppliers
• Participates in projects to better understand the Voice of our Customers.
• Recommend and implement changes to processes and procedures
• Lead processes to ensure that the team works collaboratively with other teams.
• Lead training programs to ensure that the team follows best practices for engaging, developing, and growing accounts.
• Manage assigned business unit team members
• Supervise, develop, train, and mentor assigned staff.
• Provide direction and actionable goals to ensure that the team understands how their performance impacts department, division and organizational strategies and goals.
• Work with Director of Government Accounts to identify staffing needs and ensure the team has appropriate headcount to support growth plans.
• Manage hiring, training, and onboarding processes and ensure these are consistent with those followed by the Solution Development team.
• Pattern our values of Seek, Empower and Impact to internal and external partners.
• Develop and lead your team to become open, transparent, innovative, and collaborative manner with the Sourcewell team and external partners.
• Represent Sourcewell and Government Accounts
• Represent Government Accounts at internal events, board meetings and retreats.
• Attend and present at conferences, trade shows, supplier meetings, client meetings and other public events.
• Other related areas and duties as assigned
  
  

Additional Job Description

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study AND Five (5) years of demonstrated experience in sales management, P&L management, business development, account management, client relations/development, or other directly related experience OR
• Combination of post-secondary training, professional education, and related experience equivalent to nine (9) years.
• Five (5) years of sales and/or sales management experience
• Five (5) years of public speaking or sales presentation experience
• Demonstrated experience leading people, projects, or teams
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in related field of study
• Seven (7) years of demonstrated experience in sales management, P&L management, business development, account management, client relations/development, or other directly related experience
• Seven (7) years of sales and/or sales management experience
• Seven (7) years of public speaking or sales presentation experience
• Four (4) years demonstrated supervisory/leadership experience
  
  

Location:

• This is a remote position, and is subject to Sourcewell's telecommuting policies and procedures.
• Must be able to meet travel requirements for this position, which is approximately thirteen to fifteen (13-15) times per year including occasional travel to Staples, MN for meetings, professional development or team activities. Notice will be given ahead of time.
  
  

Full Time/Part Time

Full time

Position Type

Regular

Scheduled Hours

40