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This role focuses on building and maintaining strong relationships with educators and administrators, identifying customer needs, and providing consultative support to align Scholastic products and services with district priorities.\nThe Inside Sales Specialist works closely with field sales, customer support, and internal teams to manage the full sales cycle-from lead generation and prospecting to closing sales and ensuring a positive customer experience. Success in this role requires strong communication skills, data-driven decision-making, and a passion for supporting literacy and equitable learning outcomes for all students.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nManage an assigned territory of school and district accounts to achieve or exceed sales goals.\n\nBuild and maintain strong relationships with educators, principals, and district leaders to understand their literacy and learning priorities.\n\nConduct needs assessments and present Scholastic Education programs and resources that best address customer goals.\n\nCollaborate with field sales partners to align territory strategies and ensure seamless account coverage.\n\nUtilize Salesforce (or other CRM tools) to track leads, opportunities, and account activity accurately.\n\nParticipate in outbound calling campaigns, webinars, and virtual meetings to engage customers and generate new opportunities.\n\nStay informed on current education trends, funding opportunities, and state or district initiatives to position Scholastic effectively.\n\nProvide timely and professional follow-up to customer inquiries and ensure smooth handoff for fulfillment and implementation.\n\nContribute to a positive, collaborative team culture that reflects Scholastic’s mission and values.\n\nThe ISR will travel approximately 20% of the time to provide customer support and attend educational conferences and corporate-sponsored training, and sales meetings\n\nAbout Scholastic\nFor more than 100 years, Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) has been meeting children where they are - at school, at home and in their communities - by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy. Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children’s books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media. As the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom libraries, school and public libraries, retail, and online, and with a global reach into more than 135 countries, Scholastic encourages the personal and intellectual growth of all children, while nurturing a lifelong relationship with reading, themselves, and the world around them. 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