Global Academic Market Manager

🕒 August 26

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $80k - $90k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Centr

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📣 Marketing

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Marketing

Centr is a consumer-focused fitness and wellness company centered on a subscription mobile app founded by Chris Hemsworth that delivers coached and self-guided workouts, tailored training programs, nutrition plans, meditation, and wellness content. Centr also sells branded equipment and HYROX-certified competition gear through its online store, and supports in-gym and at-home training for all levels. The service emphasizes personalized planning, a variety of training modalities (strength, HIIT, yoga, Pilates, boxing), and community-backed results.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute a comprehensive global sales strategy for K–12 and higher education markets • Establish market priorities, revenue targets, account segmentation, and regional growth plans • Identify high-potential educational institutions, school systems, universities, athletic departments, campus recreation programs, and educational networks • Build a repeatable sales model for direct sales and global dealer and distributor channels • Build and manage relationships with academic-market decision-makers • Lead direct sales for strategic academic accounts and large-scale projects • Manage opportunities from qualification through proposal, negotiation, purchase order, installation, and post-sale follow-up • Develop new business across schools, colleges, universities, vocational institutions, and campus recreation facilities • Build relationships with academic associations, athletic organizations, purchasing cooperatives, and industry groups • Identify bids, capital projects, construction, renovations, and replacement cycles • Position Centr’s strength, cardio, functional fitness, performance training, and Centr x HYROX offerings • Develop equipment packages and integrated solutions including equipment, education, programming, digital content, and training support • Train and educate dealer partners, distributors, internal sales teams, and academic customers • Build and maintain a global academic sales pipeline in Salesforce • Develop forecasts and report on revenue, pipeline health, dealer engagement, and major projects • Coordinate pricing, product availability, freight, installation, service, and project execution • Collaborate with Global Sales, Product, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Customer Service, Logistics, and Service teams • Monitor academic fitness trends, institutional spending, procurement practices, facility design, and competitor activity • Provide senior leadership with reports on sales performance, pipeline, accounts, dealers, market trends, competition, risks, and opportunities • Represent Centr at education, fitness, athletic, recreation, and facilities industry events • Serve as Centr’s subject-matter expert and primary commercial representative for the global academic market

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, sales, sports management, exercise science, education, or a related field preferred • Minimum of 5–7 years of experience in commercial fitness equipment, institutional sales, education sales, dealer management, or a related industry • Demonstrated experience selling into K–12 schools, colleges, universities, athletic departments, or campus recreation facilities • Proven ability to manage direct sales and dealer-supported sales channels • Experience with complex, project-based, and capital equipment sales • Strong understanding of institutional procurement, bid processes, budgeting cycles, and purchasing requirements • Demonstrated success developing strategic accounts and building long-term customer relationships • Experience working across multiple countries or regions strongly preferred • Knowledge of fitness equipment, strength and conditioning, campus recreation, athletics, or physical education highly desirable • Proficiency with Salesforce platforms, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, presentation software, and sales reporting tools • Fluency in English required; additional languages beneficial • Valid passport and ability to travel internationally • Frequent domestic and international travel, approximately 40%–60% of the position