Admission Counselor at upGrad · Noida · 0 - 4 years · ₹4L - ₹5.5L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 12 Jul 2023
Job Description: The ideal candidate for this role is that you are a proven sales performer adept in direct-toconsumer consultative sales. You are comfortable working with high ticket size products that require focussed nurturing over a period and yet can build urgency for the end consumer to decide fast. You have worked in a highly competitive sales environment and have been at the top 10 percentile of your team. What will you be doing?
●Being a mentor and guide, who potential learners can look up to for career advice.
● Counselling potential learners, helping them plan their career path and understanding how upGrad can catalyse their career.
●Carrying weekly enrolment/revenue and collection targets.
●Establishing the uniqueness and effectiveness of upGrad's model of online/blended learning.
● Owning the complete sales closing life cycle for leads assigned to you. This includes making phone/video calls, product demonstration, sales closing and post-sales relationship management.
● Maintaining a detailed database of all the interactions on the CRM with the leads and providing constant feedback to the marketing team on lead quality. What are we looking for?
● Individual with outstanding English communication skills (written and verbal), interpersonal and presentation skills. ● Hardworking Individuals with high dedication and extreme determination.∙ Experience in EdTech sales would be an advantage.
●Rockstar sales performers with proven track records.
● Great listeners and trustworthy individuals who can bond with our potential learners. Individuals with the ability to approach any situation with patience and powerful empathy.
● Individuals who take a disciplined approach towards building funnels, tracking feedback, prioritising tasks and overachieving targets and deadlines.
● Sales bent of mind, to understand and effectively communicate what upGrad is offering to its prospective learners and achieve revenue targets.
●Passion for always delivering the highest levels of customer service.
●Basic proficiency in MS Office Suite is required.
What are your deliverables / KPI's?
●Minimum of 100+ Dials every day with 40+ Connects.
●2 hours of talk time on an average per day & 1 Video Session
●2 enrolled students per week.
●Weekly revenue targets to be met consistently.
Shubham Vishwakarma
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About upGrad
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upGrad is an online higher education platform. Founded by Ronnie Screwvala, Mayank Kumar, Ravijot Chugh and Phalgun Kompalli in March’ 2015, upGrad provides rigorous industry-relevant programs designed and delivered in collaboration with world-class faculty and industry. Merging the latest technology, pedagogy, and services, upGrad is creating an immersive learning experience – anytime and anywhere.
Through exclusive partnerships with some of the most prominent universities like IIIT-Bangalore, MICA, BITS Pilani, ISB, Cambridge Judge Business School- our aim to impart university education, online.
Learning online can be tough, especially when you have to do it all by yourself. Reasons why you should upskill with UpGrad:
- We provide an engaging experience via our suite of learning applications right from the university applications till you get a job and transition
- We provide structured online courses in collaboration with some of the prominent universities and industry experts
- We co-create a rigorous curriculum in collaboration with these universities to provide the learners with a holistic learning experience
- All our courses are comprehensive, structured and rigorous - delivered online, providing you the flexibility and opportunity of continuous learning
- We conduct regular live lectures with the industry experts and the professors
- Each of our learners is allocated with a dedicated student mentor who helps them chart a career path and motivates them to push themselves
- We provide in-depth feedback on all the assignments, case studies, and projects
- We have delivered 400+ successful career transitions and we’re committed to building careers of tomorrow
- You get access to an alumni network of 3,000+ students across the globe
- We also conduct periodic offline events like Hackathons, Bootcamps, Alumni Nights and connect you not only to the professors and industry experts but the peers in your batch too
- Last but not the last, we provide career assistance and help all the learners with interview preparations, mentorship calls, and job placements even after the completion of the program
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