Mandarin Speaking Sales Executives

Job Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Manage prospective families from initial enquiry through to enrolment.
• Build and maintain a strong pipeline of qualified opportunities.
• Drive enquiry-to-application and application-to-enrolment conversion.
• Conduct consultative sales conversations and confidently manage objections.
• Proactively follow up and re-engage prospective customers.
• Work towards individual and team activity, conversion and enrolment targets.
• Coordinate closely with admissions, customer experience, marketing and leadership teams.
• Maintain accurate CRM records and use pipeline data to prioritise activity and improve performance.

What We're Looking For

• Fluent Mandarin is essential, with excellent spoken and written English.
• Proven experience in sales, business development, account management, admissions or relationship management.
• A strong track record of achieving commercial or performance targets.
• Experience managing a sales pipeline through a CRM system such as HubSpot, Salesforce or similar.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-volume and target-driven environment.
• A proactive, resilient and commercially minded approach.
• Strong cultural awareness and confidence working with international customers.

Location & Working Pattern

• Based in Dubai, UAE.
• The working week may be Monday-Friday or Tuesday-Saturday, depending on operational requirements.
• International travel and occasional weekend work may also be required.

About Cognita

Safeguarding

• Cognita is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects the same from its employees.
• All new staff will be subject to detailed and enhanced pre-employment clearance, including identity checks, criminal background checks, qualification checks, employment checks, and satisfactory reference checks.