Business Development Executive

Job Description: The ideal candidate for this role is that you are a proven sales performer adept in direct-toconsumer consultative sales. You are comfortable working with high ticket size products that require focussed nurturing over a period and yet can build urgency for the end consumer to decide fast. You have worked in a highly competitive sales environment and have been at the top 10 percentile of your team. What will you be doing?

●Being a mentor and guide, who potential learners can look up to for career advice.

● Counselling potential learners, helping them plan their career path and understanding how upGrad can catalyse their career.

●Carrying weekly enrolment/revenue and collection targets.

●Establishing the uniqueness and effectiveness of upGrad's model of online/blended learning.

● Owning the complete sales closing life cycle for leads assigned to you. This includes making phone/video calls, product demonstration, sales closing and post-sales relationship management.

● Maintaining a detailed database of all the interactions on the CRM with the leads and providing constant feedback to the marketing team on lead quality. What are we looking for?

● Individual with outstanding English communication skills (written and verbal), interpersonal and presentation skills. ● Hardworking Individuals with high dedication and extreme determination.∙ Experience in EdTech sales would be an advantage.

●Rockstar sales performers with proven track records.

● Great listeners and trustworthy individuals who can bond with our potential learners. Individuals with the ability to approach any situation with patience and powerful empathy.

● Individuals who take a disciplined approach towards building funnels, tracking feedback, prioritising tasks and overachieving targets and deadlines.

● Sales bent of mind, to understand and effectively communicate what upGrad is offering to its prospective learners and achieve revenue targets.

●Passion for always delivering the highest levels of customer service.

●Basic proficiency in MS Office Suite is required.

What are your deliverables / KPI's?

●Minimum of 100+ Dials every day with 40+ Connects.

●2 hours of talk time on an average per day & 1 Video Session

●2 enrolled students per week.

●Weekly revenue targets to be met consistently. 

What you need to have:

Our client is the fastest growing company in the space of student mobility in Asia Pacific as per Financial times.

More about them

- Long-term accommodation booking platform for students (think booking.com for student housing).

- Helps 80M students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, nonstandardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process.

- Leading student housing platform globally, with 1M+ student housing units listed in 6 countries and across 80 cities.

- Growing rapidly and targeting $400M in annual gross bookings value by 2022.

• 2+ years experience in Web Designing - Wordpress

• Experience in building both front-end and back-end of the website
• Knowledge of WordPress Plugins
• Excellent and written and verbal communication skills with proven fluency in English
• Good understanding of Web architecture
• Analysing website performance and troubleshooting errors
• Conducts Wordpress design/development research and performs discovery analyses for new client projects, including content reviews and wireframing. 
• Creates Wordpress design/development strategies based on research.
• Stay up-to-date with new web technologies.

• Work with stakeholders and fellow developers.
• Design and implement Python code using the Django framework.
• Identify and fix bottlenecks that may arise from inefficient code.
• Identify and fix software bugs.
• Create a wide variety of unit tests to verify the functionality of software.
• Manage the security of the platform.
• Write detailed documentation around the code.
• Knowledge of front end languages.

Will be developing mobile and web applications using latest technology. Should be good in analysing requirements and translate into applications. Good in understanding application flows.

Tech Skills –

Mobile technology – Hybrid (Ionic / Angular / Cordova ),  – Expert level – Should have completed at least one  project with server component, use of cloud services, use of device native capabilities like camera, accelerometer etc.

HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Java script – Expert level - Good understanding of concepts and should be able to realize application screens based on the UI provided by designers.

(This is an internship to begin with, later you may be offered a full-time role.)