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Job Title: Area Sales Manager – B2B School Sales

Location: Thrissur & Cochin, Kerala

Experience: 1 to 4 years

Salary: ₹3.5 – ₹4 LPA

Industry: Education / EdTech / B2B Sales

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly motivated and energetic Area Sales Manager to drive B2B sales in the school segment across Thrissur and Cochin. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing new business opportunities, maintaining strong relationships with school decision-makers, and achieving sales targets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify and onboard new schools in the assigned territory (Thrissur & Cochin).
• Build and maintain strong relationships with principals, school management, and key decision-makers.
• Pitch educational products/services to schools and ensure timely closures.
• Achieve monthly and quarterly sales targets.
• Conduct product demos and training sessions for clients.
• Work closely with the marketing and operations team to ensure seamless delivery and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor competition and market trends to strategize accordingly.
• Maintain accurate records of sales, client interactions, and follow-ups via CRM tools or reporting formats.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline (MBA is a plus).
• 1–4 years of experience in B2B sales, preferably in the education sector or similar.
• Prior experience in school sales will be a strong advantage.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong negotiation and presentation abilities.
• Self-driven and target-oriented.
• Willingness to travel locally within assigned areas (Thrissur & Cochin).

Benefits:

• Fixed salary: ₹3.5 – ₹4 LPA (based on experience and interview performance).
• Incentives based on sales performance.
• Travel reimbursement.
• Career growth opportunities in a fast-growing sector.

Experience: 2 to 4 years

Requirements:

• Technical background or qualification is preferred but not mandatory.
• Excellent command of the English language.
• Sales exposure to B2B software products / SaaS products is a must.
• Understanding of technology, specifically in Analytics space.
• Ability to interact with prospects, break ice and pitch product.
• Cold call to prospects, make cold visits.
• Prior experience in social media marketing is a plus.
• Track record of getting things done, within a fast-paced and changing environment, yet comfortable dealing with ambiguity and a changing environment
• Self-starter able to work on his own initiative with minimal supervision, works well with the team and motivates them as well.
• Based on geography, need to work the shifts.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Researching organizations to identify new contacts and leads by geography, segment etc.
• Running customized mail campaigns to the leads, run follow-ups.
• Cold call to prospects, make cold visits.
• Working on targets, building the pipeline, and consistently meeting the targets.
• Work closely with marketing and content team to develop marketing campaigns to generate leads and increase reach on social media.
• Conduct interactions with prospects, identify and qualify prospects.
• Identify and evaluate emerging trends key trends in the analytics space and be aware of competitor products and offerings.

Below are the must-have's in the candidate:

1) 2+ years of experience in LabVIEW development or training

2) Must have fluent English

3) At least 1500 hours of experience programming in LabVIEW.

4) Minimum certification of National Instruments CLAD, Certified LabVIEW Developer or

higher credential preferred.

Behavioral Expectations:

1) Internally motivated, “self starter” type personality.

2) Reliable, can be trusted to work consistently on tasks without close supervision.

3) Able to work on tasks individually or as part of a small team.

4) A “life-long learner” that is willing to develop new skills and proficiencies.

About CITTA

The Lexicon Group, under the leadership of Pankaj Sharma has journeyed from very humble beginnings and has seen upward growth year after year. The Lexicon Group started from education but has now diversified to other sectors like FMCG, Ed-tech, Law Aggregator Platform, Media, Fitness etc. The latest addition to the kitty of The Lexicon Group has been a newspaper (Pune Mirror and Civic Mirror), which has been taken over from the Times of India Group. The motto for The Lexicon Group is mindfully chosen ‘Believe in Yourself’, probably the three strongest words listed together which have the potential of changing lives if you believe in them and that is what Lexicon group try to ensure.

CITTA (Lexicon Lifestyle Private Limited) is a premium-quality natural baby bath and skincare brand that is safe, tested and gentle. CITTA Products are Free of Toxins, Parabens, Sulphates, Silicones, Mineral Oil, and Allergens and are Dermatologically Tested. We are a cruelty-free brand. We are expanding our core team, which is determined to achieve results.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement HR strategies and initiatives aligned with the overall business strategy
• Bridge management and employee relations by addressing demands, grievances or other issues
• Manage the recruitment and selection process
• Support current and future business needs through the development, engagement, motivation and preservation of human capital
• Create and execute customer engagement, satisfaction and retention plans
• Develop and monitor overall HR strategies, systems, tactics and procedures across the organization
• Nurture a positive working environment
• Oversee and manage a performance appraisal system that drives high performance
• Maintain pay plan and benefits program
• Assess training needs to apply and monitor training programs
• Report to management and provide decision support through HR metrics
• Ensure legal compliance throughout human resource management

Must Haves:

• Proven working experience as HR Manager or other HR Executive
• People-oriented and results-driven
• Demonstrable experience with Human Resources metrics
• Knowledge of HR systems and databases
• Ability to architect strategy along with leadership skills
• Excellent active listening, negotiation and presentation skills
• Competence to build and effectively manage interpersonal relationships at all levels of the company

Perks:

• Excellent growth opportunity
• Best salary in the industry

The company is headquartered in Pune.

A Software Testing Engineer is required to fully test the product or system to ensure it functions properly and meets the business needs. The job responsibilities include:

Role and Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating and executing tests to verify that software runs properly and without defects on each platform requested and to handle test procedures efficiently to result in extreme product stability, product usability and performance.
• Responsible for creating test plans and test cases.
• Understanding how a feature is implemented to develop test cases for the functionality, performance, stress, and fault conditions.
• Responsible for reviewing and analyzing project documentation to ensure product testability.
• Responsible for providing detailed testing status.

Skills  Required: 

• Should have experience in creating Test Plans, Test scripts, Test cases.
•  Knowledge in Selenium web drivers is mandatory. They should be able to write the scripts and run them in Selenium.
• Should have good experience in SQL databases.
• Good knowledge on System and Integration Test Cases.
• Good knowledge on System and Integration Testing.
• Able to write Test Scenarios.
• Able to Test the application independently.
• Hands on experience in UI testing 

Qualifications:

• B.Tech (Computer Science)

• This job is on Contrecting role Max $70/hr 
   Java or Scala web developer with 8 to 12 years of experience and strong fundamentals/proficiency in core technologies used for web development - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Spring and Hibernate (to include relational database experience). 

• Object oriented analysis and design patterns using Java/J2EE technologies, 

• Knowledge on Spring Framework, MVC architectures, ORM frameworks like Hibernate  

• Experience with Restful Web Services, data modeling  

• Strong experience in relational database design and development (preferably with Oracle) and understanding of NoSQL databases like HBase, Druid, Solr 

• Experience working with event/message-based communication platforms such as Kafka, ActiveMQ etc., 

• Experience working with Hadoop technologies and Spark framework  

• Working proficiency in build and development tools (Maven, Gradle, Jenkins) 

• Experience with test frameworks like JUnit, Mockito  

• Experience in front end development using modern JavaScript frameworks and charting frameworks