Business Developer

As a Sales Associate, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to MHFA India’s success by expanding our customer base and establishing long-term relationships. If you're a motivated self-starter with excellent communication skills and a knack for building rapport, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

·       Prospect and qualify leads to generate new business opportunities.

·       Conduct product presentations and demonstrations to potential clients.

·       Build and maintain strong relationships with clients to understand their needs and provide appropriate solutions.

·       Achieve sales targets and contribute to revenue growth.

·       Continuously stay updated on industry trends and product knowledge.

·       Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field.

·       1-3 years (for Associate) and 4-6 years (Senior Associate) of experience in sales or business development roles.

·       Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets.

·       Strong communication and negotiation skills.

·       Self-motivated and goal-oriented with a drive for success.

·       Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and respond to leads generated through digital marketing channels promptly, ensuring timely follow-up and effective lead nurturing.

• Develop and implement sales strategies to effectively engage and convert leads into customers. Collaborate with the sales team to refine and optimize the sales process.

•  Understand customer requirements, pain points, and business objectives to provide tailored IT service solutions. Conduct effective Build and maintain strong relationships with prospective and existing customers through regular communication, providing exceptional customer service, and acting as a trusted advisor.

• Manage sales pipeline effectively, tracking and updating lead status, activities, and progress using CRM systems. Provide accurate sales forecasts and reports to management.

• Stay updated with industry trends, competitors, and market dynamics related to IT services. Identify new business opportunities and target markets to expand customer base.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product, and delivery teams, to ensure a seamless customer experience and successful project implementation.

• Negotiate contracts, terms, and pricing in accordance with company guidelines. Close deals and achieve assigned sales targets and quotas.

• Proficiency in using CRM systems especially HubSpot and sales tools to manage leads, pipeline, and sales activities.

 Demonstrate a strong understanding of international markets and the ability to adapt communication styles and sales approaches to different cultural backgrounds. Possess cultural intelligence to effectively navigate cross-cultural interactions, understand customer preferences, and respect cultural values and norms. Show sensitivity and adaptability when engaging with customers from diverse backgrounds, ensuring a high level of cultural competence in all interactions.

• Track sales metrics, prepare reports, and provide accurate sales forecasts to the management team.

Requirements:

• Proven 4+ years of experience in sales, preferably in the IT service industry, with a strong track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets.

• Extensive global market knowledge and a successful history of selling IT services to international clients.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Knowledge of the IT services industry and market trends.

• Significant exposure to various technology stacks across the Digital landscape, Next Gen. Technologies (AI/ML, Blockchain, IoT) UX, Mobility, Platform Development, e-commerce, Cloud Ops, etc. 

Looking for immediate joiners in Business development field sales for Hyderabad region.

Experience in Saas industry is added as extra advantage.

Job involves
Client Coordinator: Onboarding and manage brands, insurance and ecommerce companies requiring aftersales waranty support services. 

Partner Coordinator: Onbaording and manage service partners. Assign tasks/ claims and get them executed through partner network.

About PlanetSpark:

PlanetSpark is on a mission to build the next generation of confident speakers and creative writers. We are a global company impacting over 13 countries through live 1:1 personalized classes on Public Speaking and Creative Writing through handpicked top 1% of teachers. Our kids participate in gripping debates, create viral Youtube videos, start their own podcast channels, perform stand-up comedy, write nail-biting mystery stories, and become confident and fearless speakers.

PlanetSpark is on its journey to becoming the global leader in the large and untapped communication skills segment. We are Series A funded by some top VCs and are on a 30% month-on-month growth curve. We have our footprint in India, the Middle East, North America, and Australia. Come join a passionate team of over 900+ young and energetic members and 3000+ expert and handpicked teachers on this roller coaster ride to build the most loved brand for kids who will move the world!

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Job Description -

1. Calling Leads

• Call on parent leads through your CRM

• 60-75 leads are to be called daily

2. Generating trial classes

• Pitch to the parents to take PlanetSpark Trial Class3. Take counseling sessions and convert

them

• Conduct counseling sessions for parents who take trial classes

• Close the sale through a smart and strategic approach

• Generate Revenue (3L+ per month)

Requirements: -

•Hard core sales role hence the candidate must be a "go-getter" who is ready

to take up tough challenges and must have a never say die attitude.

• Deliver sales pitches and convert cold leads into customers/partners.

• High incentive learnability on customer acquisition.

• Candidate must get driven

• Eager to join the sales

Who are we looking for?

A person who is extremely passionate about Business Development, Sales and "Starting Up" in general. The person is going to be a part of a closely knit small team of passionate individuals with a single-minded focus to sell India's first genuinely world-class EdTech products

What are the behavioral attributes that we are looking for?

A keen desire to drive Business Development/Sales for a fast-growing

seed funded early stage start-up.

Important Criteria -

1) Willing to work 6 days a week

2) Willing to work in a Start-up

3) Should be ready to work from the office after 1 month of training

• Identifying and boosting business opportunities by evaluating the potential segmentation in all business verticals.
• Developing and executing strategic plan to achieve sales targets and expand customer base
• Exploring new business opportunity, developing a business plan, and providing the workflow solutions for customers in different market segments.
• Building and maintaining strong, long-lasting customer relationships
• Sells products by implementing sales plans.
• By providing direction in line with business strategy, lead, motivate and measure the performance of the Sales teams
• Preparation of annual sales budget
• Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition status
• Present sales, revenue and expenses reports and realistic forecasts to the management team
• Design and implement strategic plans to reach sales targets.
• Develop and promote weekly, monthly and quarterly sales objectives.
• Work with customers to better understand their business needs and goals.
• Provide full visibility into the sales pipeline at every stage of development
• directing and supervising sales operations to ensure profit maximization and realization of sales targets
• Provide motivation and guidance to the sales team to enable them to improve on their sales performance, and to reach the set goals.
• Provide effective after sales support and services to customers.
• Monitor the activities of sales personnel to assess performance and productivity
• Prepare and present to management periodic budgets/sales forecast

About the work from home job/internship
Selected day-to-day responsibilities & learning opportunity :

1. Engage top leaders of MNCs and Indian companies for business development on Social media.
2. Leverage email marketing to generate online queries
3. Learning to generate a high success ratio in business development
4. Develop Understanding to make pitches to the senior industry leaders
5. Gain business communication skills to become future leaders
6. Insights on finer point of sales conversion