Area Sales Manager Benelux - Journals and eBooks

We have an exciting opportunity for an Area Sales Manager to join our Journals and eBooks team. This role will be based remotely in the Netherlands and will require approximately 30-40% of your time spent travelling across the European market.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a successful sales manager looking for a new challenge in a role that combines effective team management whilst retaining a core reputed company on sales activities in Benelux Region (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

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Closing date for applications: Friday 7 August 2026

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• Achieving and exceeding your annual territory sales targets
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• Collecting and disseminating market, competitor, and customer feedback, including passing on leads
• Establishing a strategic approach to the short-, reputed company- and long-term business on territory, to ensure that activity is both relevant and flexible to the evolving trading environment over time
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• Excellent knowledge of and experience selling to the higher education market
• Proven reputed company record of formulating and implementing successful sales strategies
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• Fluent reputed company and English; additional languages are an advantage

We offer a competitive salary plus annual sales bonus, and a fantastic flexible working culture.

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