<div style="text-align:left">I realise most readers will be academic rather than sales types, but perhaps you know people (students who are graduating?) who might be interested. A version of this advert is online at <a href="http://trac.sketchengine.co.uk/wiki/Website/SalesPost">http://trac.sketchengine.co.uk/wiki/Website/SalesPost</a> Please pass on.</div>
<div style="text-align:center"><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>European Sales Executive</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Lexical Computing Ltd</b></div><br><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:white;text-align:justify">Lexical Computing Ltd (LCL) is a small research company working </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:white;text-align:justify">at the intersection of linguistics, technology and
dictionary-making.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:white;text-align:justify"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:white;text-align:justify">Its strap line is 'corpora for all'. It</span> has a leading corpus query tool, the Sketch Engine, incorporating ‘word sketches’, one page corpus-driven summaries of word’s grammatical and collocational behaviour. Customers include Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Collins, Cornelsen and Le Robert and around 100 universities.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk">http://www.sketchengine.co.uk</a> contains further details about the company and the product<br><br><b>The Job </b>is to sell the Sketch Engine to universities and language schools in the UK and throughout Europe. The role involves<br>
<ul><li>developing comprehensive knowledge of LCL services including the Sketch Engine</li><li>preparing and implementing a strategy to maximise sales to institutional customers</li><li>managing and developing relationships with JISC-collections (<a href="http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk">http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk</a>) and similar organisations in other European countries</li>
<li>representing LCL at relevant conferences and workshops and giving presentations</li></ul>You will be based at home, with extensive UK and European travel<br><br><b>Salary:</b> £23,000 per annum + commission, with on-target earnings of £45,000, uncapped<br>
<br><b>Requirements</b><br>· Degree<br>· Demonstrable sales track record<br>· Knowledge of linguistics: you will be selling to linguistics professors. You need to be able to describe the structure of an English sentence<br>
· Native speaker or with near-native-level fluency in English<br>· Right to live and work in UK<br><br><b>Desirable</b><br>Experience of<br>· sales to Universities<br>· social networks, in a sales context<br>
· linguistics research<br>· language teaching<br> Knowledge of other languages (the more the better), also of corpus linguistics<br><b><br></b>Please send letter of application, contact details for two referees, and CV, to <a href="mailto:inquiries@sketchengine.co.uk">inquiries@sketchengine.co.uk</a> by Sunday 17th June<br>
<br>--<br>========================================<br>Adam Kilgarriff <a href="mailto:adam@lexmasterclass.com">adam@lexmasterclass.com</a> <br>Director Lexical Computing Ltd <br>
Visiting Research Fellow University of Leeds <br>Corpora for all with the Sketch Engine <br> DANTE: a lexical database for English <br>========================================<br>