Business Developer

About IQnext:

We're revolutionizing the way buildings are managed, shifting them away from traditional facilities management to a smarter, data-driven approach. IQnext is an integrated, centralized platform that is disrupting buildings and real estate infrastructure with its new-age cloud-based solution, delivering long-term sustainability and operational efficiency that is scalable across portfolios.

Job Summary :

To achieve our ambitious goal, we are looking for a Business Development (BD) Manager who is proactive in nature and works in a pre-sales and sales role, and generates leads on his/her own using different methods (B2B portals, emails, cold calls) from the enterprise/channel customer segment.

Opportunity:

In this role, you will be responsible for driving new sales and the growth of IQnext in the channel/reseller segment. The person in this role will pioneer some of IQnext’s biggest deals by landing new logos and formalizing enterprise-wide relationships with companies via resellers/channel partners. You will gain knowledge and experience in the new age industry of SaaS and cloud.

In this role, you will report to the Head of Sales and Partnership & closely work with Cofounders.

Responsibilities:

• Identify potential customer targets from channel/reseller segments.
• Apply consultative sales skills to build relationships with channel/resellers to generate new business from their network -Close deals, acquire new customers, generate revenue

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is passionate about sales + technology.
• Has proven experience of 3-5 years in B2B / Corporate / Channel sales and selling tech-based products/solutions to business and technology stakeholders interacting with key decision makers.
• Has worked in the Commercial Real Estate segment and Selling experience in Facility Management Solutions, Building Management systems.
• Has experience in Pre-Sales & Sales.
• Team player, with excellent oral & written communication, and presentation skills and must be able to articulate technology & product positioning to both business & technical users.
• Has knowledge of the corporate/enterprise procurement process, decision-making criteria, processes they use, etc
• Is extremely motivated to succeed and is a problem solver.
• Knowledge of complex decision-making groups (or ability to grasp this quickly)
• Proven track record of planning sales pipelines.
• Well organized, analytical, detail-oriented, and quality-minded, able to eliminate sales obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches.

Benefits:

Incentive on sales

Medical Insurance (including dependants)

Employee Stock Options (ESOP)

Regional Sales Manager

Company Profile

Ashnik is a leading enterprise open source solutions company in Southeast Asia and India, enabling organizations to adopt open source for their digital transformation goals. Founded in 2009, it offers a full-fledged Open Source Marketplace, Solutions, and Services – Consulting, Managed, Technical, Training. Over 200 leading enterprises so far have leveraged Ashnik’s offerings in the space of Database platforms, DevOps & Microservices, Kubernetes, Cloud, and Analytics.

As a team culture, Ashnik is a family for its team members. Each member brings in different perspective, new ideas and diverse background. Yet we all together strive for one goal – to deliver best solutions to our customers using open-source software. We passionately believe in the power of collaboration. Through an open platform of idea exchange, we create vibrant environment for growth and excellence.

Responsibilities

• Create strong relationships with key client stakeholders at both senior and mid-
  management levels
• Create & articulate compelling value propositions around the use of Open-source technology
• Understand Ashnik’s capabilities & services and effectively communicate offerings to the customers
• Create, implement and own a sales pipeline to manage customer lead intake, outbound activity, prioritization and metrics for measurement of deal status
• Understand the competitive landscape and market trends
• Establish sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for regions and territories; projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products/technologies
• Desire to own projects and exceed expectations, with ability to find solutions and deliver results within a rapidly changing, entrepreneurial, technology-driven culture
• Ability to identify and solve client issues strategically
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with management and cross-functional teams, for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Work with the Sales, pre-sales, technical and Operations, teams to implement targeted sales strategy
• Generate and maintain accurate Account and Opportunity plans
• Work with internal teams on behalf of clients to ensure the highest level of customer service
• Interface with technical support internally to resolve issues that directly impact partners
• Establish high levels of quality, accuracy and process consistency for the sales team
• Reporting and analytics
• Ensure reports and other internal intelligence and insight is provided to the sales team
• Keen business sense, with the ability to find creative business-oriented solutions to problems.

Qualification and Skills

• Graduate with minimum 8-10 years of experience in selling IT software products to large enterprises in South India
• Strong skills in enterprise sales cycle
• Familiarity with open source software is highly desirable
• Strong communication and presentation skills

Location: Bangalore

Package: upto 20L