Business Development Officer

About Company

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

Roles & responsibilities:

• Key connect with Insurance Companies to procure competitive pricing and terms

• Timely and compliant placements of all lines of General Insurance Products

• Assisting the sales team to close business

• Client onboarding, retention & renewals, and servicing requirements

• Assisting onboard clients for all their new / renewal requirements

• Keeping customers updated on the latest products to increase sales.

• Preparing RFQ’s for all General Insurance requirements

• Retention – Manage servicing team for renewal retention; visiting clients for managing relationships; retention of existing policies/clients

Requirements:

Technical Skills:

• MS Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Education, experience & skills required:

• Graduate / MBA or relevant degree. Insurance degree would be an added advantage.

• Knowledge of insurance / General Insurance domain preferred.

• 2 to 4 years of experience in Insurance Broking / Placement & Retention.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Proficient in all Microsoft Applications

• Superior product knowledge

• A team player with leadership skills

• Maintain a positive attitude focused on customer satisfaction.

BDM CUM Business Analyst

Note: Notice period is immediate to 15 days’ maximum candidates can apply.

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Role: BDM CUM Business Analyst

Work Location: LUCKNOW

Experience: Minimum 2 + years into the same key skills

Budget: open

Mode: Permanent

Job description

We are looking for a candidate with 2-5 years of experience in Business Analysis and IT project coordination with documentation in IT (Web development/application development / mobile apps development) along with international client handling experience..

Job Responsibilities:
Discussion with customer/project team to understand the requirements
Creating, analyzing, and validating detailed functional and business specifications (BRD / SRS Preparation)
Requirement walk-through and getting requirement sign-off from the customer
Analyzing the requirements of the clients and converting them into technical documents as per the specifications
Creating wireframes to determine the flow and functionalities of the application
Facilitating the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders
Creating Proposals and other relevant documents
Creating Slide Decks required for explaining Business Solutions & Approach
Explaining the requirements to technical teams and taking the estimates for the same
Understanding the Adhoc changes and analysis on the impact and creating spec documents
Supporting testing in creating test cases and review of test cases
Allocating tasks to resources as per the milestones of the project
Coordination with the delivery team to deliver the project on or before the estimated deadline
Creating Release documents and UAT Testing of the release
Communicating with clients throughout the life cycle of a project to update them with the progress and path ahead from time to time

Skills:
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, and client-serving skills

- Must have knowledge of some analytical tools

- Ability to prioritize tasks and deliver to deadlines

- Strong relationship building, analytical, & problem-solving skills

- Must have good decision-making skills

- Must be a good team player, good learner, and self-starter

- Proactive and quick executor

- Must have demonstrable client/stakeholder management skills

- Must be self-driven with the ability to manage workload without direct supervision

• Develop and execute end to end projects and programs central to building a fast-paced high growth startup.
• You'll report to our founders and work closely with members of the leadership team.
• Should have exp. in working and collaborating with colleges/universities PAN Indian and Internationally
• If you are looking to build a career working with multiple teams and stakeholders by driving things centrally, then we should talk.
• We are hiring for multiple positions. An ideal candidate should have 3-6 years of experience. Preferred candidate should have experience in consulting + startup.

• Act as a central POC to design, drive and execute projects from the Founder's office.
• Take complete ownership of assigned projects - which have a direct impact and coordinate end to end.
• Maintain key internal and external stakeholder relationships. Own strategic relationship with external stakeholders including investors
• Identify gaps and roadblocks that functions/teams are struggling with and troubleshoot them.
• Build systems and processes to run a smooth engine across multiple functions/teams.
• Define the key metrics (KRAs and KPIs) of different functions and make sure they are being completed as per the set targets.
• Plan out an approach/analysis strategy (data + qualitative) to infer underlying trends/actions specific to a program.
• Build high-quality reports and deducing insights from the same.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and resolve escalations.
• Review all the student feedback received from various sources.
• Market research competitor analysis to identify threats and opportunities.
• Analyze consumer behavior and determine student personas.
• Identify opportunities to reach new market segments and expand market share.
• Monitor competition (acquisitions, pricing changes, and new products and features.
• Understanding the student behaviour and gathering insights to suggest improvements in the product/programs.

• 3-6 years in a business or executive management/consulting roles, organizing and directing multiple teams and departments.
• Must have worked in a fast-paced growing technology startup and consulting experience
• Should have exp. in working and collaborating with colleges /universities
• Ability to share and seek feedback across functions
• Well versant with people/talent challenges and ability to manage the same in a high growth- stage startup.
• Extraordinary communication skills - written and verbal
• Extremely versatile, dedicated to efficient productivity with experience in planning and leading strategic initiatives

                                          Business Development Manager- Job Description

Responsibilities

• Lead generation through various marketing activities, cold call and networking.
• Meet potential clients by growing, maintaining, and leveraging your network.
• Developing sales plan, prospecting / identification of opportunities, customer presentations, managing RFI / RFP responses, and winning opportunities.
• Achieve set targets in terms of revenue, profitability, collection and other result areas.
• Work with technical team and other internal colleagues to meet customer needs.
• Arrange and participate in internal and external client debriefs.

• Manage Key Accounts, develop and maintain client relationship.
• New Account Development, Developing relationships with key decision-makers in target organizations for business development.
• Understanding and coordinating client's needs / enhancements and consulting with team to provide solutions in adherence to delivery schedules.

 Skill Sets

• Knowledge of IT Infrastructure Solutions and Services.
• Knowledge of Networking products like Switches, Routers, structured cabling , NAS SAN Storage, CCTV etc.

• Knowledge of of IT Security products like UTM, firewall, VA-PT Cyber Security and End Point Security.

• Knowledge of Computing like Servers, Desktops etc.

 Requirements

• Technical Background (BE, B.Tech, B Sc, BCA, B.com, Diploma) MBA a strong plus.
• Good track record in IT Hardware, Software & Services sales.
• 3 to 12 years of Corporate Sales experience in IT Industry mandatory. 
• Excellent interpersonal, diplomacy and conflict-resolution skills.
• Good Personal Networking Skills.

SquareShift is a young and fast-growing cloud consulting company, solving cloud challenges through excellence in technology, thought leadership, and quality in execution. We are HQ in Singapore, with a world-class engineering team in India. 

Founded by serial entrepreneurs, we are a team of tech-enthusiasts who have strong expertise in enterprise product development and cloud technologies. As an early and core member of the team, you will work with founders, client business owners and will own organisations marketing efforts. 

Your responsibilities would include:

• Develop and implement overarching outbound sales and business development strategy, sales processes, structure, and best practices across the company
• Generate new leads, identify and contact decision-makers, screen potential business opportunities, select the deals inline with strategies, and lead and facilitate pitch logistics 
• Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets
• Have a disciplined approach to pipeline development through leveraging Marketing, Channel partners, Customers, Sales Development team and their own ability to organically prospect.
• Identify key influencers and decision makers at target companies and convince them on the benefits of our solutions
• Develop an overall account strategy that will lead to a well-executed, team based selling effort.
• Continuous follow-ups with prospects and clients
• Take a lead role in the development of proposals and presentations for new business materials to create and nurture business opportunities and partnerships
• Identify trends and customer needs, building a short/medium/long-term sales pipeline in accordance with targets
• Create company intro and pitch for service or product demo as and when required  
• Write a pitch for email and social media and other assets 
• Assist in the coordination and implementation of marketing strategies, and delegate tasks that achieve strategic goals

Job Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in the IT industry
• Historical track record of success in business development
• Experience with marketing & business development for software development services
• Self-directing and agile, with the ability to quickly pivot strategies, as needed.
• Passionate, creative thinker with exceptional analytical skills. 
• Team player with superb collaboration and communication skills. 
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
• Keep current with business development strategies, best practices, and associated resources

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport with clients
• Strong knowledge of email marketing & other outbound campaign tools
• Ability to identify potential leads
• Ability to prepare PPTs for clients 
• Critical thinking skills
• Knowledge of sales management, marketing, strategic management, and business planning

Why SquareShift?

We firmly believe that our growth, long term success & wellbeing as an organization are a direct outcome of the culture and teamwork. At SquareShift, you can expect,

• High-growth, collaborative environment with diverse and inclusive teams
• Continuous learning, enrichment, and development opportunities
• Competitive pay and allowances for professional development 
• Flexible time off to relax and recharge

Website - https://www.squareshift.co/">squareshift.co 

1. Good communication skills (spoken and written).

2. Persuasion and people skills to engage clients and customers.

3. Data mining experience using LinkedIn, Google, etc.

4. IT solution/IT sales/mobility/pre-sales/outbound(software sales)/business development/key account management exposure/analytics sales experience.