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PlanetSpark is on the lookout for a Business Development Associate at our Gurgaon office! 🏢

🚀 Join us in the dynamic Ed Tech industry and take charge of inside sales. Check out the key details below:

👩‍💼 Job Title: Business Development Associate

🌍 Location: Gurgaon

🏢 Work Setting: Office-Based (WFO)

🎓 Industry: Ed Tech

📊 Functional Area: Inside Sales

🌞 Shift: Day Shift / Night Shift (optional)

📋 Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Business Development Associate, you will:

1️⃣ Help students choose the perfect learning course from our educational offerings.

2️⃣ Kickstart phone conversations with parents who've experienced demo classes for their kids.

3️⃣ Nurture potential customers and seal the deal within the sales cycle.

4️⃣ Effectively communicate with leads through email and calls.

5️⃣ Keep precise digital records of call information.

6️⃣ Achieve monthly sales targets and meet input metrics.

🎯 Hiring Criteria:

💼 Training Period: 21428 (Stipend)

💰 Salary Range (CTC): 6.6 LPA (4.02 LPA fixed + 2.4 LPA variable)

🗣️ Required Skill: Excellent Communication

🕒 Experience Required: 0-3 Years (Freshers welcome!)

🎓 Minimum Education: Graduation

📆 Graduation Years: 2018-2024 passouts

🚨 Important Criteria:

💼 Willingness to work 5 days a week.

🚀 Thrive in a startup environment with high-intensity learning and rapid growth.

📍 Job Location: Gurugram

Role

The role of a Sales Manager - SAAS will be to assist the organization’s sales and growth efforts by contributing to new customer acquisition. You should be able to provide ideas to attract new clients, increase sales funnels and keep the senior management updated about market and competitor activity. The primary role and responsibilities of a Sales Manager include:

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with potential clients to create new business opportunities
• Develop new sales funnels while having a targeted
• Assist in marketing & PR activities
• Support in writing new business proposals
• Maintain knowledge of all product and service offerings of the company
• Keep prospective client database updated
• Coordinate meetings for senior management with prospective clients
• Follow company guidelines and procedures for the acquisition of customers
• Analyze the data to suggest growth opportunities
• Share and execute ideas to increase the revenues target of the company

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of B2B sales experience within SaaS
• Must have basic knowhow of technologies
• Previous experience with a technology team gives you an extra brownie point
• Must possess strong customer service skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Must have good negotiation skills
• Must be able to create good presentations
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills
• Must be detail oriented and an active listener
• Ability to work under pressure
• Must be a quick learner
• Must know how to manage different priorities
• Should be ambitious and goal-oriented

• Able to identify prospects
• Able to pitch products and services
• Driven by targets and motivated to do sales
• Outbound calling on data collected through lead generation activities / secondary data sources
• Daily follow-ups on older leads and work on new leads
• Good networking skills
• Able to make 120-150 calls a day

• Or English + 2 regional language

• Researching and prospecting potential clients
• Using all channels to connect and generate leads
• Giving impactful product demo and generating business
• Managing all prospects and focussing on closing deals

Desired Candidate Profile

• Aptitude for sales and hunger for success
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Strong analytical, problem-solving ability
• Efficient time management and a never give-up attitude

• Build a strong network within ecosystem to identify the top authors and bring them onto the Graphy platform

• Reach out to creators and build a strong pipeline of creators who could create a Graphy

• Setup Calls and introduce Graphy as the product and platform to create Graphies

• Cold call/email prospective leads.

• Find out interesting ways to source creator leads

• Find out interesting ways to close Graphers

• Close Creators to create Graphies

• Own the GMV from the Graphies closed

• Serve as the lead point of contact for all Graphers account management matters.

• Build and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with Graphers.

• Should have 3+ years relevant experience in business development or proven experience as category manager or similar role

• Solid knowledge of category management, business development principles

• Excellent communication skills

• Detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a demanding, fast-paced environment.

• Book/Content market knowledge is an added advantage

• Experience in working in a collaborative team

• Experience in adding SAAS products is a plus.

• Experience in Lead management and closure.

• Top of the Market Salary

• Great learning environment

Graphy is the all-in-one platform to launch your online school, grow your community, monetize your knowledge and host live cohort-based courses.

The creation of cohort-based courses is open to all content creators, influencers, and educators. Join creators, teachers, and instructors from every industry, share what you know, and make money doing what you love!

You can host free sessions to engage with your audience who might have not subscribed to you yet. Hosting online live sessions will help students understand what they can expect from your course and will get to know you better.

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• Manage sales operations in assigned district to achieve revenue goals.
• Supervise sales team members; the BSMs, on daily basis and provide guidance whenever needed.
• Identify skill gaps and conduct trainings to sales team.
• Work with team to implement new sales techniques to obtain profits.
• Assist in employee recruitment, promotion, retention and termination activities.
• Conduct employee performance evaluation and provide feedback for improvements.
• Contact potential customers and identify new business opportunities.
• Stay abreast with customer needs, market trends and competitors.
• Maintain clear and complete sales reports for management review.
• Build strong relationships with customers for business growth.
• Analyze sales performances and recommend improvements.
• Ensure that sales team follows company policies and procedures at all times.
• Develop promotional programs to increase sales and revenue.
• Plan and coordinate sales activities for assigned projects.
• Provide outstanding services and ensure customer satisfaction.

• Identifies business opportunities by identifying prospects and evaluating their position in the industry; researching and analysing sales options.
• Sells products by establishing contact and developing relationships with prospects; recommending solutions.
• Prepares reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing information.
• Creating his own network by recruiting candidates and make them understand business plan.
• observe the issues related to stockpoint and customer & trying to provide the solutions to it.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.