Business Developer

Hiring business development executive who is ready to partner with corporates. Should have good communication skills.

Job Overview

We are looking for an ambitious and energetic Business Development Manager to help us expand our clientele. You will be the front of the company and will have the dedication to create and apply an effective sales strategy. The goal is to drive sustainable financial growth through boosting sales and forging strong relationships with clients.

Responsibilities

• Develop a growth strategy focused on revenue growth
• Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs
• Arrange business meetings with prospective clients
• Promote the company’s services addressing or predicting clients’ objectives
• Prepare sales contracts ensuring adherence to law-established rules and guidelines
• Keep records of sales, revenue, invoices etc.
• Provide trustworthy feedback and after-sales support
• Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers
• Develop entry level staff into valuable salespeople

Qualifications

• Proven working experience as a business development manager or sales executive in IT Services company
• Minimum 3+ years of experience
• Proven sales track record
• Proficiency in MS Office and CRM software
• Proficiency in English
• Market knowledge
• Communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to build rapport
• Time management and planning skills

Your job as a business development manager is to identify sales leads, pitch our product to new clients and onboard them, and maintain a good working relationship with new contacts/schools. Communicating new product developments to prospective clients.

1. Meeting schools and onboarding them
2. Creating and managing top level sales funnel and generate leads
3. Organize and coordinate operations in ways that ensure maximum productivity
4. Managing customer and channel affiliated relationship with client
5. Conducting demos and presentation of the product
6. Monitor sales, marketing & operational activities; implement strategies to maximise channel sales & collections as well as smooth operations.
7. Review your own sales performance, aim to meet or exceed targets
8. Gather market and customer information and provide feedback on the same

Why you?

1. 5 + years experience in a sales role with schools, preferably in edtech and having a client base ( having direct relationship with the school management) of around 100-150 schools in their region.
2. B.tech/MBA degree.
3. Detailed understanding of the principles of sales
4. Strong communication skills
5. Proven track record in achieving sales quotas
6. Open to travelling.

Perks:

Apart from very competitive compensation, you will:

1. Work in a high paced growth environment
2. Work with a very experienced team

Must have attributes:

1. Extreme sense of ownership
2. Bias for action
3. Ability to change the preempt and iterate the course of action to achieve targets.

Role Description

Business Development Manager

We are seeking an ambitious, smart and target-oriented individual for generating sales to join our business development team. This role is a hybrid role in a middle to senior position.

Requirements

·        Excellent Communication skills - verbal and written (Verbal Skills, Command over Language, Fluency)

·        Ambitious and aggressive approach towards sales

·        4 to 6 years of experience in a sales role (preferably in PR agency/ handling a PR role for a company, or a media company / agency or a digital marketing agency or role)

·        Diligent, persistent with strong follow-ups

Responsibilities

• Identifying new opportunities and clients
• Generating leads via multiple sources including but not limited to cold calling, emailing, social media, and others
• Develop the pipeline of new business coming in to the company by preparing for potential growth opportunities
• Contributing to pitch presentations and pitching to clients to acquire new business
• Coordinating with the team and founders to come up with new offerings to increase revenue from existing clients
• Competitor analysis: Should keep a close eye on the work done by competitors and come up with strategies to acquire those clients
• Providing management with client / market feedback
• Ability to do research and build a digital marketing strategy - including audience, brand & category research
• Maintaining a good relationship with clients
• Mapping potential business deals by contacting potential clients; discovering and exploring opportunities
• Meeting the agency’s business targets
• Developing long-term relations with clients
• Differentiating the agency’s solutions in comparison to the competitors to get more conversions
• Great communication and people management skills
• Record and maintain information on business closed, ongoing projects, etc. on an ongoing basis in the agency’s in-house systems and records

Benefits to the candidate

·        Getting first-hand experience closing and managing clients from across the globe

·        Getting the opportunity to learn about the publica relations industry from the ground-up

·        Working closely with the founding team with decades of industry knowledge

·        Working in an environment that allows freedom and offers opportunities to grow and learn within and beyond the specific role

·        Experience of working in a diverse remote team that spans across Asia, North America & other regions

Compensation

·        Basic in-hand salary: The range will be between INR 6 to 8 lacs per annum depending upon prior experience

·        Incentive structure: There will incentives in the form of commissions involved depending upon the service and the market. These will be discussed in detail during the interview

Job Location

Candidate has the flexibility to work from home or any location of their choice.

Timings: 6.00 pm to 3.00 am IST (adjusted as per daylight savings)

The work shift is as per Eastern Time

Industry: Public Relations, Internet, Online Media

Company Description

Established in 2014, Facilius Inc. (www.faciliusinc.com) is a Public Relations and media placement agency. It works directly with top-tier media outlets such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Variety, US Weekly and many more. It operates on a unique model unlike any PR agency where they work with a clientele that includes entrepreneurs, businesses, corporates, celebrities, and professionals across the US, UK, middle east, Asia and other regions. The team currently includes 21 people from across the globe.

Are you looking for a promising career with a well known ed-tech brand, which is looking to make life easier for kids and parents to understand basic concepts of learning? Then read on.

Our client aspires for equity in education along with profound, measurable societal impact. The company provides learning solutions such as digitalized educational contents, English speaking, school infrastructure, improvement and management solutions etc. for a spectrum of audiences ranging from children in schools and informal setting, to teachers, adults, and corporate. They've created significant reach and impact at scale; through their presence across 32 States and Union Territories and 478 districts of India, in 36,000 schools and with a network of around 300 Institutes of Skills, and 100 industrial clusters, they directly impact 15 million people on a daily basis. Globally, they deliver programmes in 17 countries of Africa, Middle East and South East Asia

• Responding and managing inbound sales leads from our website or any other channel.
• Doing the first conversation, understanding the requirements, suggesting a best suited solution and then connecting them to the senior members of our team.
• Understanding sales targets and building leads digitally both for the social sector, for schools, with coaching institutes and retail.
• Working with the senior team to share the relevant information, mature these leads and driving them for conversion
• Building digital connections with potential partners, distributors, resellers, CSR consultants and NGOs who can take up our solutions and grow them in their territory.
• Personally meeting the leads and giving them detailed presentations about the company and the products
• Managing schools needs by providing them with customised solutions
• Handling the North-east region and the leads for that territory
• Setting up a network of schools for future sales and support
• Sharing with them the various edtech options built by the company

• Candidate with sales experience in Education K - 12 segment (preferred) - someone with experience in managing Digital sales (B2B). 
• MBA (preferred)
• Good communication skills
• Sales experience in an ed-tech field preferably with B2B
• Excellent and Effective Communication and an aspiration to learn best of all types of communication - verbal, email, phone, WhatsApp and others
• Basic digital capabilities - Since all our inbound sales and support queries come via phone/ email, therefore the person should be good at emails, typing, and writing replies and coordinating with different people.
• Self-awareness, Peaceful mind and humility to learn