Business Development Associate

Job Title: Sales Manager

Location: Koramangala 5th Block, Bangalore

Company: Palis Decor

Job Type: Full-Time

Working Hours: 12-hour shifts

Week Off: Rotational

Salary: ₹30,000 per month + Incentives (based on achieving a ₹15 lakh target)

Probation Period: 6 months

Notice Period: 1 month

Performance Observation Period: 2 months (termination possible if targets are not met)

Document Submission: Original documents to be submitted to the company upon joining

Job Overview

Palis Decor, a leading brand in the decor industry, is looking for a motivated and performance-oriented Sales Manager to oversee our retail store operations at Koramangala 5th Block, Bangalore. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with strong sales skills, a proven track record in team leadership, and a passion for delivering outstanding results.

Key Responsibilities

1. Sales Management

• Achieve or exceed the store’s monthly sales target of ₹15 lakh.
• Drive revenue growth through innovative sales strategies and customer engagement.

1. Team Leadership

• Lead, manage, and motivate the sales team to meet individual and collective goals.
• Provide training, coaching, and guidance to enhance team performance.

1. Customer Relationship Management

• Build strong relationships with customers to drive repeat business and loyalty.
• Ensure a high standard of customer satisfaction through exceptional service.

1. Inventory & Store Operations

• Monitor inventory levels and coordinate stock replenishment to maintain product availability.
• Ensure the store is well-maintained, organized, and visually appealing.

1. Sales Reporting

• Prepare and present sales reports to management, highlighting key achievements and improvement areas.

1. Market Research & Strategy

• Analyze market trends and competitor activity to identify new opportunities and refine sales strategies.

Qualifications & Skills

• Experience: Proven experience (3-5 years) in a sales management role, preferably in the retail or decor industry.
• Leadership: Strong team management and leadership skills to drive high performance.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Kannada and English.
• Sales Expertise: Ability to handle pressure, meet deadlines, and deliver exceptional results.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in sales management tools and software.
• Customer Focus: Strong interpersonal skills and a customer-first mindset.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to work with a well-known decor brand.
• Attractive incentives for achieving targets.
• Scope for professional growth and career advancement.

‍Expected to manage the product plan, engineering, and delivery of Xoxoday Plum. Plum is a rewarding and incentives infrastructure for businesses. It's a unified integrated suite of products to handle various rewarding use cases for consumers, sales, channel partners, and employees. 31% of the total tech team is aligned towards this product and comprises of 32 members within Plum Tech, Quality, Design, and Product management. The annual FY 2019-20 revenue for Plum was $ 40MN and is showing high growth potential this year as well. The product has a good mix of both domestic and international clientele and is expanding. The role will be based out of our head office in Bangalore, Karnataka however we are open to discuss the option of remote working with 25 - 50% travel.‍

• Scope and lead technology with the right product and business metrics.
• Directly contribute to product development by writing code if required.
• Architect systems for scale and stability.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like sales, customers, product, design, and customer success.
• Code reviews and feedback.
• Build simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
• Define a process for maintaining a healthy engineering culture ( Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures, HLDs, Best Practices In development, etc).

• Manage a senior tech team of more than 5 direct and 25 indirect developers.
• Should have experience in handling e-commerce applications at scale.
• Should have at least 7+ years of experience in software development, agile processes for international e-commerce businesses.
• Should be extremely hands-on, full-stack developer with modern architecture.
• Should exhibit skills to build a good engineering team and culture.
• Should be able to handle the chaos with product planning, prioritizing, customer-first approach.
• Technical proficiency
• JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL, PHP
• Frameworks like React, ReactNative, Node.js, GraphQL
• Databases technologies like ElasticSearch, Redis, MySql, Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka
• Dev ops to manage and architect infra - AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins)
• System Architecture w.r.t Microservices, Cloud Development, DB Administration, Data Modeling
• Understanding of security principles and possible attacks and mitigate them.

‍You will lead the Plum Engineering team and work in close conjunction with the Tech leads of Plum with some cross-functional stake with other products. You'll report to the co-founder directly.

‍A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment with scale, international flavour, backend, and frontend. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

‍A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

‍We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Business Development Representatives (BDRs) are focused on generating and qualifying leads through LinkedIn and other channels. Their main goal is to use these platforms to create connections with potential clients and identify opportunities for the sales team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Lead Identification: Utilizing LinkedIn (especially tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator) to identify and connect with potential leads that match the target profile.

2. Initial Outreach: Engaging with leads through personalized LinkedIn messages,

comments, InMails, calling, and sending emails, creating interest in the

company's products or services.

3. Qualifying Leads: Assessing the needs and interest levels of the leads, determining if they are a fit for what the company is offering.

4. Scheduling Appointments: Setting up meetings or calls between qualified leads and the sales team, ensuring a smooth handover.

5. Collaboration with Sales and Marketing: Working closely with the Sales Manager and marketing team to align outreach efforts with overall campaign strategy.

6. Monitoring and Reporting: Tracking interactions, responses, and success rates within LinkedIn and reporting these metrics to the Sales Manager.

7. Maintaining Professionalism: Representing the brand in a professional manner, adhering to LinkedIn's guidelines, and maintaining the quality of interactions.

8. Content Engagement: Sharing, liking, and commenting on relevant content to increase visibility and engage with the community within the target market.

9. Utilizing Supporting Tools: If using additional tools like CRM or other integrations, maintaining accurate records and ensuring data integrity.

Skills Required:

• Proficiency in using LinkedIn, especially LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including phone and email etiquette.
• Ability to analyze profiles and identify potential leads.
• Self-motivated and goal-oriented approach.
• Understanding of the company’s products or services.

• Banking Domain
• Assist the team in building Machine learning/AI/Analytics models on open-source stack using Python and the Azure cloud stack.
• Be part of the internal data science team at fragma data - that provides data science consultation to large organizations such as Banks, e-commerce Cos, Social Media companies etc on their scalable AI/ML needs on the cloud and help build POCs, and develop Production ready solutions.
• Candidates will be provided with opportunities for training and professional certifications on the job in these areas - Azure Machine learning services, Microsoft Customer Insights, Spark, Chatbots, DataBricks, NoSQL databases etc.
• Assist the team in conducting AI demos, talks, and workshops occasionally to large audiences of senior stakeholders in the industry.
• Work on large enterprise scale projects end-to-end, involving domain specific projects across banking, finance, ecommerce, social media etc.
• Keen interest to learn new technologies and latest developments and apply them to projects assigned.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with R&D teams and incorporate blockchain into the development and design of solutions that employ cross-asset frameworks and concepts
• Leadership abilities in order to provide the team with the correct direction to ensure that the correct solution is implemented with tremendous success.
• Build performance indicators to assess the performance of the Blockchain.
• Preparation of a risk and failure analysis and risk prevention plan.
• Train and advise technical employees on Blockchain tools and frameworks, Blockchain principles, and so forth.

Required Skills:

• Worked on new technologies and develop performance standards for appraising any new solutions.
• Extensive knowledge of blockchain architectural concepts and the development of storage solutions.
• He shall have a solid understanding of Blockchain foundations, consensus algorithms, and smart contracts 
• Excellent knowledge of blockchain frameworks, for example, Hyperledger Fabric, R3 Corda, and Ethereum
• Good command over the several consensus algorithms used for the Bitcoin Blockchain, Ethereum, Byzantine fault-tolerant algorithms
• Strong understanding of cryptography, in order to provide greater security and immutability to the system

We are looking for somebody who can write all day long, gets excited when someone uses a new word and will cringe on reading this- we needs a writer who gets high on words and creativity. That might sound like every writer ever, but trust us- this is an extremely rare combination. However, we will find you!

If you think you are that genius, we would love to have you on board with us. Us? Well, a designer who’s hard to catch, a project manager who knows how to get things done, a boss who doesn’t like being called the boss, a writer who barely gets the time to write, and a little pupper who keeps them all going.

Now the serious stuff: What we’d expect you to do?

Creating and curating content for social media posts and graphics

Initiating and driving outcome-oriented campaigns

Writing articles and blogs of varying lengths

Ability to work across different industries and niches- extra marks for technical writers

Capability to write diversity content- SEO. long-form, taglines, SM posts, newsletters etc

Editing and proofreading articles with attention to detail

P.S. Of course, to be able to do all this, one has to be creative!

Hang on, we have some ‘perks’ too

5 days working (phew, who would not want that!)

Salary as per Industry standards (mandatory to say)

A good looking office (we hope so)

Pixie (the little pupper, remember?)