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Job Description: Business Development Manager

Position Overview:

As a Business Development Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving the growth and success of our company. You will lead a dynamic team of Business Development Associates and Executives, overseeing their day-to-day activities and ensuring that they achieve their assigned targets. Your primary responsibility will be to cultivate and nurture relationships with both new and existing clients, understanding their unique needs and providing tailored solutions to meet their requirements. Additionally, you will be responsible for strategizing and implementing initiatives to expand our client base and increase revenue.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead Generation and Relationship Building:

Receive leads from the company and actively engage with potential clients to build and maintain strong business relationships. Understand clients' needs, challenges, and goals to recommend suitable products or services.

2. Sales Process Management:

Guide clients through the sales funnel by negotiating terms, addressing objections, and providing necessary support to facilitate the closing of deals. Utilize effective sales techniques to maximize conversions and achieve sales targets.

3. Client Feedback and Database Management:

Record client feedback, preferences, and interactions in a comprehensive database. Use this information to tailor future interactions and improve customer satisfaction levels. Maintain accurate records of client communications and transactions.

4. Team Leadership and Management:

Supervise a team of 10-15 Business Development Associates and Executives, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to help them achieve individual and team targets. Conduct regular performance evaluations and provide constructive feedback for professional development.

5. Strategic Planning and Execution:

Collaborate with senior management to develop strategic plans for business development and client acquisition. Implement initiatives to enhance market presence, generate leads, and drive revenue growth.

6. Meeting Facilitation and Reporting:

Conduct daily morning meetings to align team objectives, communicate targets, and provide updates on performance metrics. Prepare regular reports on sales activities, pipeline status, and revenue projections for management review.

Qualifications and Skills:

- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or related field.

- Proven experience in business development, sales, or a related role.

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

- Ability to understand client requirements and propose suitable solutions.

- Leadership qualities with the ability to motivate and inspire a team.

- Proficiency in CRM software and Microsoft Office Suite.

- Excellent organizational and time management skills.

Join us in this exciting opportunity to drive business growth and make a significant impact in the industry!

About the role

Media Planning Executives are responsible for analyzing data, thinking creatively and dreaming up innovative strategies to make sure marketing campaigns reach the right target audience in the most effective way possible. Armed with this critical analysis, media planning executives devise, propose, or recommend strategies for using certain media effectively to attract and retain customers, increase brand recognition, and maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Some of the things we’d like you to do:

● Creation of tactical plan presentation and supporting media plan templates
● Creation of campaign analysis plan 
● Oversee the successful launch of campaigns 
● Maintain accuracy and timely updates of deliverable tracking documents for team
● Collate commentary on media performance and conduct first review on quality
● Adherence to team quality standard for reporting template and delivery
● Keep consistent track of campaign performance and target (monthly) across all channels, flagging needs for intervention
● Use understanding of campaign and marketplace to contribute ideas for campaign experiments and also prioritize experiments
● Manage accurate forecasts, media plans, and all key media planning documentation

A bit about yourself:

● At least 2-3 years of experience in Tradional media advertising
● Working knowledge and effective vocabulary across Offline & Online 
● Experience with Media Research Tools (Comscore, GWI, TGI)
● Strong organizational skills with a keen ability to prioritize and multitask.
● Proven problem solving skills and ability to think outside of the box
● Ability to work independently and collaborate in a team environment
● Detail oriented and responsive, deadline-driven with strong reasoning skills

What you can expect from Essence

Essence’s mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. We do this by employing the world’s very best talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of today’s digital marketing landscape. It’s important that we hire people whose values reflect those of our own: genuine, results-focused, daring and insightful. As an Essence employee, we promise you a workplace that invests in your career, cares for you and is fun and engaging. We believe these factors create a workplace where you can be yourself and do amazing work. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or marital status. 

- 3+ years of Business Analyst experience preferably in Saas, customer experience or customer service domain.

- High attention to details and have proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously

- Experience with hands-on day-to-day problem solving, implementing quick and effective action plans to meet short term priorities.

- Manage a cross-functional process to translate the desired customer experience into a logically sequenced and optimized product roadmap and major product releases. Create buy-in for the product roadmap with internal and external stakeholders. 

- Open to discuss the requirement with the client over a call/ in person meeting.

- Develop high quality BRD's and effectively prioritize and manage the scope of each product launch to deliver key capabilities on time and on budget.

- Coordinate with multiple stakeholders , including customer service teams, UX designers, and engineers, to share timelines and deliver the client requirement/ product features within the shared timelines.

- Daily standup with various teams to track the progress.

- To oversee the development and improvement of customer service products or platforms within an organization

- Execute on the existing roadmap and contribute towards shaping the long-term strategy for CS self-service products.

- Creating and maintaining a product roadmap that outlines the vision, goals, and timeline for the development and enhancement of customer service products.

- Effectively communicating product updates, progress, and milestones to internal stakeholders, executives, and customers, ensuring transparency and alignment throughout the organization.

• Create high-quality HTML files based on the latest HTML5.
• Conducting website performance and usability tests.
• Troubleshoot any issues with the website.
• Meeting publication deadlines.

• In-depth knowledge of front-end coding languages including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery.
• Familiarity with CSS preprocessors such as Sass and Less.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, or other graphic design and layout tools.

• Developer with 3-5 years of well-proven experience in Web UI & middleware REST API development using NodeJS and ReactJS
• Must be well versed with using anonymous functions, Prototypes, Call-back functions, promises in Node JS
• Experience in ReactJS component lifecycle and Redux
• Must be able to create and consume data from REST services.
• Experience in Babel and Webpack
• Must be familiar with Github and GitLab
• Must have strong experience in MYSQL, Postgres relational databases and MongoDB.
• Experience in HTML5, CSS3, SASS, LESS is an added advantage
• Experience in GCP, Azure, AWS cloud technologies is an added advantage
• Familiarity with continuous integration