Business Development Intern

Key Responsibilities:

Sales Meetings & Client Acquisition:

1. Identify and target potential clients within the HoReCa sector, including hotels, restaurants, and catering companies.

2. Conduct sales presentations and meetings to introduce Acasa's premium products, including sauces and food ingredients.

3. Develop and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers, including chefs, procurement managers, and restaurant owners. Study Product Benefits & Client Applications:

4. Thoroughly study Acasa’s product range, understanding their unique benefits, ingredients, and uses.

5. Identify and match how Acasa products can meet the needs of various clients, such as high-end restaurants, boutique hotels, and catering companies.

6. Tailor product presentations to showcase specific product benefits to suit the culinary needs and demands of each client.

Product Demonstrations & Trials:

7. Organize and lead product demonstrations and trials to showcase the quality, taste, and versatility of Acasa’s products.

8. Provide technical insights and culinary support to clients, ensuring successful product trials within their kitchens. Generate Sales and Purchase Orders (POs):

9. Convert successful trials into sales by securing POs from clients.

10. Meet monthly and quarterly sales targets through proactive lead generation and follow-up.

11. Track orders to ensure timely fulfilment and maintain high customer satisfaction.

Market Research & Client Potential:

12. Conduct market research to identify potential clients, new trends, and opportunities within the HoReCa sector.

13. Continuously expand the client base by targeting new establishments, studying industry trends, and recognizing gaps that Acasa products can fill.

Reporting & Coordination:

14. Prepare detailed reports on meetings, product trials, and sales progress.

15. Coordinate with internal teams such as marketing, logistics, and customer support to ensure smooth operations and customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities:

Sales Meetings & Client Acquisition:

16. Identify and target potential clients within the HoReCa sector, including hotels, restaurants, and catering companies.

17. Conduct sales presentations and meetings to introduce Acasa's premium products, including sauces and food ingredients.

18. Develop and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers, including chefs, procurement managers, and restaurant owners.

Need Experience in FMCG/HORECA industry

About Company:

Our client is a leading investment bank with strong practices around M&A, PE, Capital Markets, Institutional Equities, Wealth Management, Insurance Broking, and Portfolio Management Services.

Job Description

• Empanel distributors to sell the investment management schemes
• Generate sales as per targets laid down through a judicious mix of external channel partners, internal sales channel, and direct clients, as outlined.
• Handling channel and client queries

Strategy Planning

• Achieve set targets through designed strategy
• Keep monitoring & review strategy on ongoing basis

Internal Coordination

• Liaising with senior management to arrive at clear objectives for the department
• Resource planning
• Liaising with investment teams to enable client interaction & information
• Liaising with operations and ensure smooth functioning between department & operations.
• Ensure proper compliance with respect to all channel partners - distributors / clients etc.

Compliance

• Ensure all activities is as per proper compliance internally and as per regulatory

Requirements

• Ensure all distributor agreements / client documentation has met with all regulatory & compliance requirements on an ongoing basis.

Requirements

Sales, Client Servicing, New client acquisition

• School sales : Primary responsibility is to sell to schools and bring them onboard o Tie up with schools and onboard them so that we can offer the the comapny plan to the parents in the school
  • Negotiate and get into commercial agreements with schools o Upsell our other payment products in the schools

• Stakeholder Management in Schools:
  • Enable the company to liaison with the schools tied up with, for close to everything from meeting the parents, doing events etc.
  • Forge a strong relationship with the school management and principal and be their first port of call on anything to do with finances
• Team Building- Build a high quality sales team and lead it in that city

🔎 What are we looking for?

• Self-starter with a high sense of ownership → Comfortable to work with minimal supervision and do sales independently
• Ability to drive sales and closures → Have the capability to do standalone meetings with school management and drive closures
• Hungry to learn and grow → Passion to learn & be a better version of oneself; motivated to succeed
• Bias for action → Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty
• Hustler → Ability to generate resources to solve a problem
• Intellectual honesty → Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal POV or beliefs
• Mission-oriented → Deeply care about delivering value and making an impact on customer’s lives

• 3+ years of doing b2b sales
• Entrepreneurial mindset - the ability to be able to crack school deals independently and work to get tangible results without too much handholding
• Willingness to be on the ground most of the time and doing field sales
• Relevant experience of selling to schools is desirable but not a requirement

• Becoming a part of the early core team
• Competitive salary plus ESOPs
• Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed
• Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors - o VCs: Elevation Capital (erstwhile SAIF Partners), Matrix Partners
• o Select angel investors: Kunal Shah, Nithin Kamat, Amit Ranjan 

Job description

A medical representative promotes and sells pharmaceutical products to healthcare specialists, such as doctors and pharmacists. They provide information about various products' benefits, usage and dosage, to increase product awareness and sales.

Role: Field Sales Executive

Industry Type: Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences

Department: Sales & Business Development

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Role Category: Retail & B2C Sales

Education

UG: Any Graduate

Key Skills

Commercial awareness. Presentation skills. Research skills. Resilience. The ability to negotiate and collaborate. Patience. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Organizational skills.

Community Management-

• Create a friendly environment to facilitate high member satisfaction
• Be thoughtful while interacting with members.
• Plan and launch community initiatives to create connections between members of different organizations. This might include targeted member introductions, recommending possible mentor matches, running networking events and managing communications within the space and through digital vehicles.
• Seek out information about the business and personal objectives of tenant organizations and their individual members.
• Foster a sense of inclusivity where fresh ideas are welcome
• Be knowledgeable about COWERKZ's membership contracts and guidelines.Explain these policies to members, as necessary.
• Oversee new member onboarding and member moves out of the space

Events Planning and Execution-

• Build a quarterly calendar of coworking events that engages all stakeholders:
• Current members: Educational (e.g., lunch and learns) and appreciation events (e.g., happy hours and themed parties)
• Future members: Lead generation and sales-related events
• Local community: Identify outside organizers and encourage them to use our event space. Depending on the exact nature, these events should also be used to build COWERKZ's CRM and digital community. 
• Manage to the allotted budget
• Present our community professionally
• With your team, oversee the event itself, from catering to a smooth event check-in process to cleanup

Business Development-

• With the owners, be responsible for setting and achieving sales objectives, occupancy rates and pricing
• Conduct tours for prospective members
• Contact the local press and community leaders to generate interest in COWERKZ.
• Maintain a positive relationship with key vendors and our landlord

Facilities and Space Management-

• Manage all centre operations to the satisfaction of members
• Maximize up-time and availability of key facilities assets like the Wifi network, kitchen, printers/copiers
• Keep members aware of facilities issues that may impact them
• Utilize a variety of coworking software applications manage the space and membership
• Make recommendations to the owners about new features or perks that will entice members
• Submit maintenance tickets for repairs to the facility and key equipment
• Ensure cleaning is conducted to spec

Data accuracy-

• Ensuring member data is updated and is current in the cowork platform
• Ensuring lead data is updated in the CRM platform
• Ensuring Community Data is being updated in the events database

Experience and Requirements

• 2 years experience with increasing responsibility in either a sales or customer service role
• Experience in co -curricular activities a plus.
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Technically capable. Able to understand and work with the variety of hardware and software applications that our space depends on.
• Experience with written content generation in a business environment and basic graphic design skills are a plus
• Interest in working independently with only occasional interactions with the owners
• Fluent in English. Ability to speak additional language is a plus.
• A high level ethics, empathy and dependability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent