Associate Acquisitions Manager

Great River Learning is looking for their next Associate Acquisitions Manager! This a full-time sales position that allows you to work with different colleges and universities in your territory to identify business opportunities, interview professors, and persuade author candidates that they have what it takes to become GRL authors. We want to collaborate with talented educators in charge of lower level, higher-enrollment courses to develop more interactive and engaging materials. In addition, if the publication we develop works well locally we have the experience and resources to market it nationally.

What Will You Do?

• Pre-plan your sale goals each week, and collaborate with your team member to creative new ways to obtain new authors.
• Run meetings to interview, identify business opportunity, and recruit select college professors to become GRL authors.
• Follow-up with prospective and existing authors. This includes keeping notes and next steps in the CRM for all prospective, in-development, and existing publications so both you and the in-house team have the information they need.
• Work with authors and internal project management team members to help ensure publications launch on time and in quality.

Who Do We Need?

• You must hold a bachelor's degree - we are looking for the right person, not necessarily a specific degree!
• This role is great for recent college graduates, or someone who is looking to get their foot in the door at a nationally recognized publishing company.
• A top performer that's used to going above and beyond the minimum expectations.
• Competitive, highly organized, and self-driven.
• Someone who sees time as a resource and not be wasted - we are looking for go-getters!
• Someone who possesses enough leadership, motivation and purpose to hold yourself accountable.
• Positive and have a "can do" attitude towards life.

Who Is Great River Learning?

Great River Learning (GRL) is an established, interactive higher education publisher that focuses on developing engaging publications by integrating videos, animations, and interactive exercises. We see enormous business opportunity because we know most students don't read traditional 900-page textbooks...unless they're cramming for a test. We develop next-generation textbooks that are well designed, interactive, and media-rich. Our employees are driven and passionate about excelling, learning, having fun, and making the world a better place by helping to improve the experience of both college-level students and professors. Learn more by visiting us at www.greatriverlearning.com.

Why Us? We Understand It's More Than Just a Job!

Choosing a career path can be one of the most important decisions in one's life. Work is part of a person's identity. People need compelling reasons to remain at a job and a company day after day, year after year. As you consider a career change, we understand the benefits an employer offers are just as appealing as the job itself.

Our companies offer -

• Job Stability. Kendall Hunt and their family of companies have been around for over 75 years
• Career Growth. Gain some great experience to promote to higher roles - many of our leadership and upper management staff worked their way up in our family of companies
• Base salary, plus an uncapped bonus plan
• Affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance with Company paid life insurance, short term and long term disability
• Generous company match on 401(k) plan, as well as profit sharing
• 15 days of PTO at hire, plus paid holidays
• Scholarship and tuition reimbursement

All applicants must have valid driver's license and a bachelor's degree.

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