Acquisitions Manager Cleveland, Ohio

Imagine the fun and excitement of being an investor on Shark Tank. As an Acquisitions Manager your job is to interview listen for business potential and persuade select candidates to work with your company. Wouldnt that be a fun way to acquire new business! At Great River Learning (GRL) youre in the drivers seat. You work with different colleges and universities in your territory to identify business opportunities interview professors and persuade author candidates that have what it takes to become GRL authors. Occasionally youll need to beat-out other sharks swimming in the same water. We want to partner with talented educators in charge of lower-level higher-enrollment courses to develop more interactive and engaging materials. Also if the publication we develop works well locally we have the experience and resources to market it nationally.

The Acquisitions Manager position is remote with eight weeks of overnight travel each semester to college campuses within the assigned territory of Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Travel occurs from late August through late November and again from January through late April. During these travel periods travel begins on Sunday and concludes on Friday with time spent on campus meeting with college professors throughout the week.

In A Typical Work Week as an Acquisitions Manager You Will...

• Proactively plan and schedule your week ahead by sending emails and making phone calls to schedule meetings.
• Run meetings to interview identify business opportunity and recruit select college professors to become GRL authors.
• When traveling make the most of time on campus by making additional phone calls of higher priority contacts or department chairs.
• 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.

Characteristics of an Ideal GRL Acquisitions Manager...

• has the skills and abilities to become a sales professional.
• is competitive highly organized and self-driven.
• sees time as a resource that shouldnt be wasted and takes advantage of time between appointments.
• possesses enough leadership motivation and purpose to hold yourself accountable.
• possesses a bachelors degree with two years of sales experience.
• possesses a valid drivers license.
• has a positive and a can do attitude towards life.

Who We Are

Great River Learning (GRL) is an established higher education company that focuses on developing engaging publications by integrating videos animations and interactive exercises. We see enormous business opportunity because we know most students dont read traditional 900-page theyre 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 .

Why Us We Understand Its More Than Just a Job!

Choosing a career path can be one of the most important decision in ones life. Work is part of a persons 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 offer is just as appealing as the job itself.

Kendall Hunt offers -

• 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
• 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

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Required Experience:

Manager