Business Development Associate

Job Description :

Job Title : Business Development Executive (IT Domain)

Location : Gurgaon (On-site)

Experience : 2+ Years in IT sales and HR recruitment

Working Days : Monday to Saturday

Key Responsibilities :

• Identify and generate leads for IT sales and recruitment services.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships to understand their requirements.
• Develop and implement strategies to drive business growth in IT staffing and recruitment.
• Conduct market research to identify new business opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure seamless service delivery.

Key Skills :

• Proven experience in IT sales and HR recruitment.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to meet and exceed sales targets.
• Proficiency in MS Office and CRM tools.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in the IT domain is mandatory.

Perks :

• Competitive salary and incentives.
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and growing team.

About us:

IndieFolio is disrupting the traditional creative agency model by allowing leading brands to assemble custom creative teams, delivering world-class quality. We connect top brands with India's finest creative talent in design, video, and content, leveraging advanced technology and industry expertise to streamline the process. Our curated network of professionals, combined with a data-driven approach, ensures exceptional results and unmatched efficiency. With a proven track record and a commitment to innovation, IndieFolio is transforming how businesses access and collaborate with top-tier creative talent. We are scaling our team and operations, seeking independent, responsible, and accountable individuals to join our dynamic team.

The Opportunity: Lead and Grow Our Inside Sales Team

We're seeking a Inside Sales Specialist who can drive new client acquisition, and lead a dedicated team of lead collection executives. You will be instrumental in achieving our sales targets and ensuring the quality and effectiveness of our lead-generation efforts. This is an opportunity to play a crucial role in our growth and success.

What you'll be doing

• New Client Acquisition: Spearheaded new client acquisition through strategic cold email outreach, leveraging tools like HubSpot, SmartLeads, LinkedIn Sales Navigator and other email scraping tools.
• Email Performance Management: Innovate and implement effective cold email strategies to maintain inbox deliveries, high open rates and low bounce rates.
• HubSpot Management: Oversee the management and optimization of HubSpot CRM, ensuring seamless operation and integration with sales processes.
• Lead Quality Assurance: Lead a team of lead collection executives, ensuring the highest quality of leads and maintaining data integrity.
• Reporting: Provide regular sales reports, covering revenue targets, team performance, lead quality, open rates, bounce rates, and other critical KPIs to your manager. 
• Developing a sales strategy: Using data analysis and trend identification to create a strategy to drive revenue growth.
• Managing lead gen. representatives: Coaching, training, and evaluating the performance of lead generation representatives. 
• Setting TOFU sales targets: Setting and tracking sales targets and optimizing KPIs.
• Forecasting: Using historical data to predict future buying patterns and improvising TOFU sales targets. 
• Identifying sales opportunities: Identifying sales opportunities and coordinating sales projects with the operations team.
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Your Skills & Experience

• Proven Track Record: Minimum of 2 years of experience in using HubSpot or similar CRM platforms.
• Technical Expertise: Proficiency with CRM management (HubSpot experience preferred), LinkedIn Sales Navigator, LinkedIn email scraping tools and MS Excel.
• Industry Knowledge: Strong understanding of B2B lead generation and experience in creative & design services.
• Analytical Mindset: Ability to analyze complex data, identify patterns, and draw actionable conclusions with a problem-solving approach.
• Communication Skills: Excellent spoken and written English, with the ability to clearly communicate complex ideas.

Why Join Us?

• Work with the best: Collaborate with some of the best global brands and top leadership in the industry.
• Hypergrowth Opportunity: Be part of a company experiencing explosive 500%+ annual growth with the potential to scale by 100x in just 3 years!
• Continuous Development: Refine your skills and leadership through continuous training and the support of a collaborative team.
• Own Your Impact: Enjoy a high-trust environment where your contributions are valued, your voice is heard, and your ownership mindset is celebrated.
• Flexibility & Autonomy: Embrace a remote-first culture that empowers you to design your ideal workday, focusing on results and maximizing your productivity.
• Vibrant & Collaborative Community: Connect with a passionate team of creative thinkers and innovators who share your dedication to excellence and making a difference.
• Competitive Compensation & Perks: Benefit from a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for professional development to fuel your growth.

Roadmap

Days 1-30: Onboarding and Foundation

• Get to Know IndieFolio: Understand IndieFolio's culture, values, and sales goals.
• Master Tools: Become proficient with HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and email scraping tools.
• Assess Landscape: Conduct a thorough audit of current sales strategies, competitors, and lead generation processes.
• Connect: Build rapport with your lead collection team and key stakeholders.

Days 31-60: Strategy Development and Refinement

• Deep Dive: Perform in-depth analysis of current sales efforts and competitor strategies.
• Sales Strategy: Collaborate with the Sales & Marketing Manager to refine sales strategies and develop a roadmap for new client acquisition.
• Test & Refine: Implement initial strategies, gather feedback, and adjust as needed.

Days 61-90: Execution and Optimization

• Lead Team Production: Oversee the lead collection team to ensure high-quality output and data accuracy.
• Implement & Measure: Launch strategic sales initiatives, track performance, and analyze results.
• Continuous Improvement: Evaluate effectiveness, gather feedback, and refine processes to ensure ongoing success.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Present, promote and sell services using solid arguments to new and prospective customers
• Perform cost-benefit and needs analysis of existing/potential customers to meet their needs.
• Establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships.
• Reach out to customer leads through cold calling.
• Expedite the resolution of customer problems and complaints to maximize satisfaction.
• Achieve agreed upon sales targets and outcomes within schedule.
• Coordinate sales effort with team members and other departments.
• Analyze the territory/market’s potential, track sales and status reports.
• Supply management with reports on customer needs, problems, interests, competitive activities, and potential for new products and services.
• Keep abreast of best practices and promotional trends.
• Continuously improve through feedback

Requirements:

• Proven work experience of 6 years or more as a quota carrying individual into Software/Web Development Services Domain.
• Has adequate knowledge of technology and jargons required for sales discussions.
• Highly motivated and target driven with a proven track record in sales.
• Excellent selling, negotiation and communication skills.
• Prioritizing, time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to create and deliver presentations tailored to the audience needs.
• Relationship management skills and openness to feedback.
• Hands on experience with tools like HubSpot/Salesforce would be an added advantage.
• Should be comfortable with Background Verification of previous employment.

• 4 - 5 years of system engineering experience on any programming language such as Java / .net / Python / angular
• Must have delivered 5 to 6 real time integration engagements for Archer
• Must have experience in developing Custom Objects on Archer to call deployed APIs or Archer’s internal APIs
• Must have strong expertise in developing multi-threaded, scalable applications to support heavy data transactions
• Must have strong expertise in designing applications with architectural patterns such as MVC
• Great to have exposure to DevOps or DevSecOps
• Great to have exposure to source code review or secure coding practices

Individuals and teams trust Aerotime to help them find flow and run at their peak efficiency, prioritizing important work that makes them fulfilled and happy!

Today's calendar system has a lot of issues that make it work against us and not for us:

1. Scattered meetings cause time fragmentation and hence wasted time.
2. No clear flow in the day. Hard to prioritize across streams of information with action items coming from multiple sources.
3. A lot of meetings! We've all been there, sitting in meetings where we feel we're not adding any value.

Aerotime fixes them at the core and goes beyond by two systems that together make teams master of productivity:

1. Time Blocking: Aerotime is building a prioritization engine that makes it very easy to create tasks from multiple sources and time block them on your calendar.
2. Meeting Effectiveness Workflows: Aerotime creates space in your calendar by pulling you out of unnecessary meetings, minimizes context switching between meetings, and makes it easy to run meetings very effectively.

Together, these systems help you maintain a beautiful balance between collaboration and creativity — right where innovation happens!

Our time is limited. It is the only asset that cannot be bought back. Yet without realizing it, we use it ineffectively day after day. You'll be solving this problem!

You'll be reinventing calendars with us and helping humans be a lot more effective. As an early member, you'll define the principles and culture of Aerotime and be integral in determining the long-term roadmap of this company.

If you join us, you'll be a founding team member who helps define:

1. Future company culture and principles
2. Engineering practices
3. People to hire
4. The direction & focus for Aerotime's products

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/piyushnarwani/">Piyush Narwani & https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruvgoel/">Dhruv Goel started Aerotime in Jan 2021 after realizing that teams in companies are not running to their full potential, and it is happening because of continuous context switching from meetings and Slack pings, with noise taking over what's truly important.
• Aerotime is backed by some of the best in the world: Y Combinator (W21), Sequoia, Nexus, SOMA, and a few thought leaders like Akshay Kothari (COO, Notion), Damien Coullon (VP, Product & Growth, LinkedIn), Nir Eyal (NYTimes best selling author), Ramakant Sharma (Founder, LivSpace) & Daniel Attia (Head of Research, Prof G Media).
• We are currently 100% remote, primarily hiring in US and India. Post-Covid, we plan to have offices in Bangalore and SF Bay Area.

Looking for a go-getter, an ideal candidate with an entrepreneurial mindset, happy to wear multiple hats and jiggle between tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Day to day activities will include sales pitches, customer onboardings, Whatsapp Bot management, understanding customer pain points & devise quick hacks to resolve, be highly data-centric.
• Establish/Discover b2b strategic partnerships, carry out experiments, and do an analysis of conversions WoW, Customer acquisition cost, and so on.
• Definitely an interesting role to work on, opportunity to collaborate and learn multiple areas of operations and extensive knowledge capital.