General Manager - APAC (Hong Kong based)
Tes Global
Hong Kong
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 31 December 2018
Job overview
TES Global, the world’s leading website and magazine for teachers, is seeking a General Manager to lead its commercial activity across the region.
What you’ll do
The GM, APAC will hold responsibility for leading all sales and commercial activity within the APAC territory with a view to rapidly increasing the penetration of Tes Global services within the universe of International Schools using English language as the main medium of instruction.
The GM, APAC will also be responsible for growing revenues from the current portfolio of products and for identifying and integrating any strategic investments that TES Global may make to accelerate its international K-12 business, as directed by the Managing Director, International.
This position will line manager all sales staff responsible for delivering targeted revenue within the APAC territory.
Who you are
We are seeking a driven and experienced Sales Manager with experience of managing high value revenue contracts ideally within the international schools arena.
This entrepreneurial leader will have excellent business development skills and will be a serial achiever with experience of exceeding a sales budget and managing service delivery across multiple businesses. You will have experience of driving growth in previous roles, ideally in an education-centric environment with strong experience working in Asia markets.
You will be a motivated team player, able to partner effectively with other members of senior management and experience leveraging different internal business units to achieves objectives whilst approaching your work with pragmatism and a sense of humour. You will be a clear thinker with a strong grasp of English, and will develop good relationships across the broader international team. Diplomacy is a must.
A strong analytical mindset with strong data orientation will be beneficial and you must have the ability to be creative with regards to product value sales, community development and customer experience.
Due to international time zones there is a need to be flexible with daily start and end times in order to speak with certain clients.
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About Tes Global
- Tes Global
- 3 St Paul’s Place, Norfolk Street, Sheffield
- South Yorkshire
- S1 2JE
- United Kingdom
Tes Global is a digital education company that has been supporting educators for over 100 years.
Our mission is what we stand for. ''We believe in the power of great teaching. We support and connect teachers and schools worldwide, helping them to improve children's lives through education''
Our company
We’re aiming to develop the products and services that will make the biggest difference in global education. We’re providing teachers and schools with training, resources and jobs services alongside the world’s largest online teacher community.
We are working to making a difference in the lives of educators, children and students by building a strong and sustainable digital education company, with commercial and social purpose that will improve standards in education worldwide.
Our culture
We put educators at the heart of everything we do and we‘re passionate about the difference we’re making in global education. We succeed by working together to develop and deliver by collaborating across teams and global locations.
We’re excited about our future; we’re embracing new ideas, innovative ways of working and open technologies so that we can help every educator in the world to raise global teaching standards.
Our people
We treat others’ as we would like to be treated ourselves – with dignity and respect. We’re sociable people with a sense of fun and if you believe in improving education worldwide we’ll warmly welcome you here.
We are diverse, we come from different backgrounds and different countries; we are teachers, journalists, designers, technologists, sales people, events managers, software engineers and more. We are socially engaged and united by our passion to support educators, schools, universities and students to ensure that everyone has the best education wherever they are.
Our rewards and benefits
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and engaging workplace where we value everyone’s contribution. We have high expectations and our people work hard so when it comes to our benefits, we have everything you’d expect, from health insurance, generous annual holiday entitlement and retirement benefits. But we also offer more than the basics. Our benefits are part of who we are and are there to support your work / life balance, your health, your development and your financial security.
Our commitment to diversity
We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to our organisation and we believe that we are stronger when we are inclusive. You’ll be treated fairly whatever your age, gender, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity or family circumstances.
Everyone is responsible for the promotion and advancement of our diversity policy and we are an Equal Opportunities employer. As such, we are committed to ensuring a culture of equal opportunities with respect and dignity at work for all employees.
Our locations
We are a truly global company with a presence in the UK, US, Australia and beyond, and everyone, in every location is an integral part of the Tes team.
Join our team to help make a difference in global education. Check out our latest job opportunities below and apply or send your CV and covering letter to careers@tesglobal.com
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