Job Description

About the Role
We're excited to be expanding the reach of our leading Law portfolio into the Professional law sector. To achieve this, we have established a specialised sales team with deep sector and product knowledge and we're looking for an energetic and passionate Account Manager to help expand our customer reach. In this role, you'll develop and implement a business strategy for your territory, maintain and expand existing accounts, and identify new opportunities. You'll work closely with customers to understand their needs and present tailored proposals that showcase the value of Oxford Law Pro and our wider Academic Law portfolio.
You'll use a consultative sales approach to build strong partnerships, meet annual sales targets, and provide market insights to inform our wider strategy. This includes tracking leads, researching prospects, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure our offerings remain competitive and customer-focused. Success in this role requires a deep understanding of our products, the external market, and a commitment to upholding OUP's ethical standards.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have/be:

• Previous experience of sales or marketing
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly skilled in using software packages such as Excel, with a proven aptitude to learn and work with new systems
• Ability to effectively manage a high volume, complex workload through prioritisation of tasks in line with departmental objectives.
• Experience of the legal sector (desirable)

Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
This role comes with the added benefit of a sales car and sales bonus.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Queries
Please contact with any queries relating to this role.
We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

Skills Required