Business Development Executive

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Growth Planning: Develop and execute strategies to drive sustainable growth and expansion in alignment with company goals.
• Market Analysis: Conduct thorough market research and analysis to identify new opportunities, market trends, and competitive threats.
• Business Development: Lead initiatives to acquire new business partnerships and opportunities, including identifying potential clients and negotiating agreements.
• Operational Excellence: Streamline and optimize internal processes and workflows to enhance efficiency and productivity.
• Financial Management: Collaborate with finance teams to develop budgets, monitor financial performance, and ensure cost-effectiveness.
• Team Leadership: Provide strong leadership and mentorship to cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Performance Metrics: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to track progress towards goals, regularly reporting to senior management.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure business continuity and resilience.

Qualifications:

• Education:  MBA or equivalent from a prestigious institute such as IIM preferred.
• Experience: 4-6 years of progressive experience in business development, operations management, or related fields. Prior experience in a leadership role preferred.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic Vision: Proven ability to think strategically, anticipate future trends, and translate vision into actionable plans.
• Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and effectively manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in IT sales.
• Develop and execute sales strategies to generate new business opportunities and expand client base within the US staffing market.
• Identify and target potential clients through proactive prospecting, networking, and cold-calling efforts.
• Build and nurture strong relationships with key decision-makers and stakeholders at client organizations.
• Understand client staffing needs, requirements, and challenges to provide tailored workforce solutions.
• Collaborate with internal recruitment teams to align staffing solutions with client demands and expectations.
• Prepare and deliver compelling sales presentations, proposals, and pitches to prospective clients.
• Negotiate contract terms, pricing, and service agreements to ensure mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and industry developments to identify opportunities for growth and differentiation.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of sales activities, client interactions, and revenue forecasts using CRM systems.
• Meet or exceed sales targets, quotas, and KPIs established by the company.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, or related field.
• Proven track record of success in B2B sales, preferably within the US staffing or recruitment industry.
• Strong understanding of the US staffing market, including industry trends, client needs, and competitor landscape.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.
• Proficiency in CRM software and Microsoft Office suite.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Decoding Youth Talent (DYT) Private Limited is a sports technology start-up which aims to enable coaches, clubs and academies scout, hire and develop youth talent through technology

Decoding Youth Talent is incubated and backed by one of the most prestigious MBA institutes in Asia, the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L).

Are you a person who is extremely passionate about sports and looking to make a difference in the industry? If yes, there was not a better time than now! We are looking for a Full Mean Stack Developer with experience in building highly technical products that will help us bring change the way how sports stakeholders interact and communicate in India and across the globe. If you are passionate about the challenges of big scale, this is your chance to make history!

Responsibilities:

• As a full-stack MEAN developer (Angular), you will code back-end services in Java/Node JS and front-end in HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript.
• Strong system design skills backed with analytical and problem-solving ability with deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Implementing algorithms and use of advanced data structures.
• Exposure to working in an agile development environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Knowledge of SVN/Git repository.
• Provide technical direction to the development teams including hands-on development of POCs where appropriate.
• Deploy realized solutions to appropriate environments using CI/CD process. Supports clients through testing Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications.
• Participate in agile software prototyping, development, maintenance, support, and code reviews of IoT Products.
• Implement modern and responsive UI for the web and a variety of devices.
• Unit, End-to-End, and performance testing software under load to ensure reliability and scalability.
• Ownership of Bug Fixes across environments for the assigned module/application.
• Collaborate on the design with internal & external project team members.
• Use JIRA effectively with daily updates to the work log and status of the issues.

Requirements:

• 5+ years or hands-on experience as a Full-stack Developer in web and Mobile application Product Engineering.
• Hands-on experience in creating Rest APIs using NodeJS. Perform 3rd party API integration with NodeJS.
• Hands on experience in HTML5 CSS3 JS libraries like Bootstrap, JQuery, and Angular Material.
• Experience in MongoDB and MySQL design, development, deployment, scaling and optimization.
• Experience working with the AWS stack (Lambda, S3 EC2 setup).
• Hands-on experience in writing queries and optimizing them for large data sets in MongoDB and MySQL.
• Good Communication and client-facing experience. Practice and enforce Agile and Scrum development methodologies.
• Hands-on experience working with Web frameworks, RESTful APIs and relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience in implementing logging to identify performance issues and building monitoring and alerting on the API using Splunk/Grafana/Prometheus/New Relic.

Good to have

• Worked from scratch in the Tech Architect, frontend, coding, and tech product development with at least 6 -50 Mobile apps (multifunction app).
• Experienced in server-side languages such as Java and PHP.

About PlanetSpark:

PlanetSpark is on a mission to build the next generation of confident speakers and creative writers amongst kids and young adults. We are a Series B funded, global company impacting over 13 countries through live 1:1 personalized classes on Public Speaking and Creative Writing through handpicked top 1% 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 by 2024. We are backed by some top VCs such as Prime Venture Partners and global entrepreneurs such as Binny Bansal, Deep Kalra, Gokul Rajaram and Shirish Nandkarni. Come, join a passionate team of over 500 young and energetic team members and 3500+ expert teachers on this roller coaster ride to build the most loved brand for kids who will move the world!

Your Roles and Responsibilities:

Business Development is a critical aspect of our platform business.

1. Actively seeking out new sales opportunities through cold calling, networking and social media.

2. Calling 65-70 leads everyday

3. Setting up meetings with potential clients (parents)

4. Generating Trial Classes - Pitch Parents to take PlanetSpark trial Classes

5. Negotiate/close deals and handle complaints or objections

6. Follow and achieve department’s sales goals on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis (3L revenue per month) 7. “Go the extra mile” to drive sales

Mission Statement

1. In your training of 1st month, we shall actively probe you through the process using Training Decks, Live Experiences, Re-Training Programs that aims to give you an overall Learning experience along with you paid stipend along the journey.

2. We create career oritented BDT in this 1 month whose skill becomes unmatched across the sector.

3. You are required to use right sales strategy and accomplish 1 Lac of revenue in the training period, hence making a way to achieve License to Sell (L-2-S)

4. You will be entitled for training stipend of INR. 21428. In-office attendance of 90% is mandatory in 1month of training

5. Post 1L Revenue achievement, you will be entitled for below

US/ Canada Shift (8:00 pm to 5:00am) - INR 7.23 LPA (4.83 Fixed + 2.4 LPA Variable)

What are we looking for?

1. Proficiency in English

2. Thorough understanding of marketing and negotiating techniques

3. Fast learner and passion for sales

4. Self-motivated with a results-driven approach

5. Proven experience in sale or relevant role is a plus

6. A friendly and energetic personality with customer service focus

Criteria

1. Willing to work 6 days in a week in a fast paced startup

2. Ready to work from Office and join immediately.

What are the behavioral attributes that we are looking for?

- A keen desire to bring growth for a fast-growing Series B funded startup

- An apparent Founder's mindset

- The candidates should be able to work in a high paced ever-changing digital environment. The role will require you to be resourceful, proactive and an expert communicator. In turn it offers immense learning and growth.

Build & strengthen the social media platforms for the Pre-K vertical brands and leverage Social Media Marketing engines to create engagement and increase the brand share of voice. 

Responsibilities

1. Monitor & Manage the company’s social media accounts and offer constructive interaction with users.

2. Possess good knowledge of social channel best practices, social publishing tools, and social listening platforms. Expert in reporting and key social media metrics for data-backed strategy across Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

3. Contributes to Annual marketing strategy by leveraging social media. Obtains market share by developing social media marketing plans and programs for our brands – EK | KK

4. Proven record of developing best-in-class and innovative social content and campaigns. Formulates high-quality novel written and visual content for the social platforms/ campaigns

5. Experience in working with influencers and understanding of how they can help reach our marketing goals 6. Develop and accomplish content strategy leading to achieving the business objective of onboarding new parents seeking admissions for their children

7. Experience in community management on digital formats

8. Experience working in coordination with other departments like sales, creative & IT

9. Agency Management & strength in working with in-house creative ops/agencies/ internal stakeholders to generate content and creatives across channels

10. Insight Development and Reporting

Candidate Profile

• MBA | PGDBM in Performance / Digital Marketing
• Experience in copy writing
• 5-8 years’ experience with a reputed brand
• Design skills and basic video edits
• Insight Mapping
• Worked on Social Media Management Tools – Hubspot/ Hootsuite or equivalent

Our Gurgaon-based client focuses on helping local businesses grow by introducing them to their SaaS platform. They are into everything local, from Listing & Review management, across social platforms, search platforms, and more. They are also into building and managing hyperlocal targeted advertising campaigns.

Founded in 2014, our client is a location data management platform. They serve multi-location enterprises across India and South East Asia. They are also helping brands to engage with audiences through their store-level messaging capabilities. The company earned a revenue of over $5 Million in the year 2021.

They have been awarded in various categories in the last few years, a few examples of which are IDMA Awards, Vega Awards, Landy Awards, Digixx Awards, Echo Awards etc.

As a Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for growing the client portfolio of multi-location large brands. You should be able to build strong sustainable relationships based on your in-depth knowledge and high-performance.

• Managing and executing entire sales process from prospecting to closure, while continually building a pipeline of sales opportunities with accurate forecasting
• Delivering highest service levels at all times, making clients’ life simple, advising them on how to leverage the platform to meet their KPIs
• Onboarding the customers once they sign up on the platform and working towards up-selling other products from the company
• Achieving high sense of customer satisfaction with focus on growing the accounts by being the trusted advisor to clients
• Working with highly driven entrepreneurs and mentors

Desired Candidate Profile

• Graduate, Preferably MBA from Renowned B-School
• Min. 2- 4 Years of successful journey selling SaaS/ Ad Tech in Indian Market
• Proven success in beating sales targets and following a consultative sales approach on behalf of the clients
• Ability to push new offerings along with core offerings to enhance penetration into accounts
• Savvy with digital productivity tools and well versed with analysing and presenting data in Microsoft Excel
• Data, digital advertising and/ or platform sales experience is a big plus
• Very strong and convincing communication and presentation skills that you can adjust to different hierarchy levels
• Understanding of the importance of building successful case studies
• Hunter mindset
• Ability to connect with key decision makers at client side    

• Demonstrable experience as a Robotic Process Automation Developer using Robotic
  technologies, particularly with UiPath.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert with Robotic Process Automation Development and
  technologies, especially around UiPath.
• Should have Advanced Developer certification from UiPath.
• Strong Customer-facing experience.
• Command on UiPath RE Framework.
• Strong Software Development Skills in Automation Software.
• Experience in working with .NET Framework and customization.