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Full-time
Annual Sales Bonus, Flexible Working Culture, Training And Professional Development, Bespoke Development Plan, Coaching
Posted 18d ago
~40 hrs/week
Remote in Netherlands
Responsibilities
The Area Sales Manager is responsible for achieving annual territory sales targets and managing operations within the Benelux region. This includes leading high-level negotiations, building strategic partnerships, and collaborating with internal teams to grow market share for journals and eBooks.
Requirements
Candidates must have significant sales experience with a proven track record in the Dutch academic publishing and higher education markets. Fluency in Dutch and English is required, along with a deep understanding of the global open research landscape.
Full job description
Company Description
Taylor & Francis is an Informa business
Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.
Taylor & Francis Group produces high quality, peer reviewed books and journals. We produce unique, trusted content by expert authors, spreading knowledge and promoting discovery globally. We aim to broaden thinking and advance understanding, providing academics and professionals with a platform to share ideas and realise their individual potential.
Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you.
Job Description
We have an exciting opportunity for an Area Sales Manager to join our Journals and eBooks team. This role will be based remotely in the Netherlands and will require approximately 30-40% of your time spent travelling across the European market.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a successful sales manager looking for a new challenge in a role that combines effective team management whilst retaining a core focus on sales activities in Benelux Region (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
You’ll work alongside the Head of Sales to set the strategic agenda for operations within the region, towards profitable and sustainable trading of T&F’s outstanding journals product lines.
You will lead high-level negotiations in the region. and build innovative & commercially significant partnerships to grow T&F market share.
Closing date for applications: Friday 7 August 2026
What you’ll be doing:
Achieving and exceeding your annual territory sales targets
Planning, scheduling and carrying out regular sales visits to customers to achieve financial targets within your sales region, customising sales documentation and tools to maximize sales opportunities.
Cultivating strong, holistic relationships with your customer base, working to ensure that trading with each account is sustainable, profitable and delivering a high level of customer satisfaction
Reporting periodically to the Head of Sales on sales progress and the business environment, thus ensuring responsiveness to both the micro and macro trading conditions.
Collecting and disseminating market, competitor, and customer feedback, including passing on leads
Establishing a strategic approach to the short-, medium- and long-term business on territory, to ensure that activity is both relevant and flexible to the evolving trading environment over time
Preparing for and contributing to sales meetings and events to build strategic awareness and to gather market relevant intelligence.
Actively liaising with stakeholder departments or groups within the business to enhance T&F’s coverage of the territory Increasing T&F Influence in the library market and beyond by cultivating a network of contacts across the region, extensive interaction with our consortia in collaboration with the OA, eBook, marketing, and editorial teams.
Acting as liaison with Product Development in support of solution-specific sales that respond to customer needs as well as other departments (Editorial, OA, Marketing etc) to design and lead specific strategic initiatives in cooperation with key stakeholders.
Representing the company externally, where necessary, i.e. on working party groups or through networks, maintaining a presence and information gathering role on the trading environment.
Qualifications
What we are looking for:
Significant experience of working in a sales environment with a track record of achieving and exceeding your annual territory sales targets
Experience of the Dutch Academic Publishing Market is critical.
Excellent knowledge of and experience selling to the higher education market
Proven track record of formulating and implementing successful sales strategies
Considerable knowledge of the academic publishing industry or the book/journals trade as well as a good understanding of the global open research landscape
The ability to influence, drive for results and establish clear agenda for key stakeholders in your territory
Target driven approach and the skills to manage sales plans and delivery
Ability to create and maintain positive and effective relationships with the sales team and other internal colleagues
Fluent Dutch and English; additional languages are an advantage
Additional Information
We offer a competitive salary plus annual sales bonus, and a fantastic flexible working culture.
What you should know:
Training And Professional Development: We’re passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. We’ll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support and coaching that will get you where you want to be.
Interview process: Once you have submitted your application, we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience, and motivation. Following this, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, either virtually or in person. Typically, we’d then finish the interview process with a final, 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.
We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible! Please contact
Being ‘you’ at Taylor and Francis:
Here at Taylor & Francis, we know that many times the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can feel discouraged about applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. We encourage you to apply if you're excited about working for us and have some of the skills or experience we're looking for. We believe in the notion that many skills and experiences are transferrable, and you could be just what we need! Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly believe in the value of diversity of people and thought. We strive to foster a supportive and inclusive environment where our colleagues can learn, develop, and succeed, all while feeling comfortable with being their true self. We embrace all walks of life regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, citizenship, or any other protected characteristic under local law.
Informa champions specialists working in academic and business-to-business markets, connecting people with knowledge to help them learn more, know more and do more.
We’re a leading international events, digital services and academic knowledge business, headquartered in the UK and a member of the UK’s FTSE 100 group of public companies.
We’re also home to a fantastic, inclusive community of over 14,000 colleagues across 30 countries, and a place where our colleagues have the freedom and flexibility to bring ideas to life, do work that makes a real impact and discover opportunities to grow.
Our businesses include Informa Markets, Informa TechTarget, Informa Connect, Informa Festivals and Taylor & Francis, but if you work in one of the specialist markets we serve, you might also know us through our brands.
In Pharma, Medical and Biotech, that includes WHX Dubai, CPHI and EBD; in Tech, Enterprise Connect, AI Summit, Black Hat and GDC; in Natural Products, New Hope Network, Vitafoods and Natural Products Expo; in Beauty & Aesthetics, China Beauty Expo and Premier Beauty; in Finance, SuperReturn International, Money20/20, Finovate and IGM; in Research and Advanced Learning, Routledge and F1000; and many more brands in more markets too.
Offices: 5 Howick Place, London, SW1P 1WG, GB · 605 Third Avenue, New York, New York NY10158, US · Level 20, World Trade Centre Tower, Dubai, Dubai 9292, AE · 300 Huai Hai Road, Shanghai, 200021, CN · 24 York St, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, AU
Informa champions specialists working in academic and business-to-business markets, connecting people with knowledge to help them learn more, know more and do more.
We’re a leading international events, digital services and academic knowledge business, headquartered in the UK and a member of the UK’s FTSE 100 group of public companies.
We’re also home to a fantastic, inclusive community of over 14,000 colleagues across 30 countries, and a place where our colleagues have the freedom and flexibility to bring ideas to life, do work that makes a real impact and discover opportunities to grow.
Our businesses include Informa Markets, Informa TechTarget, Informa Connect, Informa Festivals and Taylor & Francis, but if you work in one of the specialist markets we serve, you might also know us through our brands.
In Pharma, Medical and Biotech, that includes WHX Dubai, CPHI and EBD; in Tech, Enterprise Connect, AI Summit, Black Hat and GDC; in Natural Products, New Hope Network, Vitafoods and Natural Products Expo; in Beauty & Aesthetics, China Beauty Expo and Premier Beauty; in Finance, SuperReturn International, Money20/20, Finovate and IGM; in Research and Advanced Learning, Routledge and F1000; and many more brands in more markets too.
Offices: 5 Howick Place, London, SW1P 1WG, GB · 605 Third Avenue, New York, New York NY10158, US · Level 20, World Trade Centre Tower, Dubai, Dubai 9292, AE · 300 Huai Hai Road, Shanghai, 200021, CN · 24 York St, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, AU