This innovative startup offers ready to drink alcoholic beverages for the global Indian. They are disrupting a $35bn market by offering consumers more choice, better packaging and an aspirational experience. The company is on track to be sold in more than 1000 outlets by the end of the year, and has raised a seed round of ~ $500mn from well known VCs and founders including First Cheque, Letsventure and Bhavish Agarwal.
The company was founded by an IIT Bombay alum who has more than a decade of experience in established global FMCG companies like P&G, as well as startups like Ola and FoodPanda.
As a Key Account Manager, you will be developing and managing a portfolio of Key Accounts and handling off-premise as well on on-premise sales.
What you will do:
- Handling key accounts, strategizing and driving sales and ensuring increase in business for the company
- Acquiring a thorough understanding of the business needs and requirements of the key customers
- Educating and updating the customers about the company’s products
- Serving as an important link of communication between key customers and the management
- Building and maintaining long-term professional relationships with the customers, obtaining feedback from customers and also handling escalations, if any
- Handling contracts and renewal with regards to the key accounts assigned
- Handling the commercial agreements, pricing, quotations etc. of the key accounts managed and reporting the same to the management
- Periodic review and course correction of sales plans as well as the key accounts and reporting the same to the management
- Handling internal stakeholders such as various internal teams and external stakeholders such as customers
- Analyzing and having an in-depth knowledge of competition and current market trends and reporting the same to the management in regular intervals
- Ensuring compliance of Government rules, laws and regulations while handling various documents, contracts and agreements
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- Graduation is a must
- Relevant work experience of handling sales and key accounts
- Previous work experience of handling a team is required
- Previous work experience from Beverage industry is required
- Excellent communication, negotiation, presentation and listening skills
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite
- A positive attitude towards achieving targets and closing sales
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This innovative startup offers ready to drink alcoholic beverages for the global Indian. They are disrupting a $35bn market by offering consumers more choice, better packaging and an aspirational experience. The company is on track to be sold in more than 1000 outlets by the end of the year, and has raised a seed round of ~ $500mn from well known VCs and founders including First Cheque, Letsventure and Bhavish Agarwal.
The company was founded by an IIT Bombay alum who has more than a decade of experience in established global FMCG companies like P&G, as well as startups like Ola and FoodPanda.
As a City Head, you will be responsible for strategizing and driving the city sales process and ensuring increase in the business for the company.
What you will do:
- Managing and driving the sales in the assigned city and also ensuring the expansion of sales in HORECA and retail
- Ensuring the city's revenue growth with P&L responsibilities
- Strategizing and implementing a sales management process to identify and prioritize key customers and prospects
- Developing and maintaining long-term professional relationships with existing customers
- Identifying and acquiring new customers through professional networking
- Working closely with internal stakeholders such as various divisions as well as external stakeholders such as customers
- Managing and guiding a team of sales experts in the assigned city and thus driving sales through them
- Updating and educating the team on various products of the company regularly
- Laying down the sales planning roadmap and ensuring the execution of the same
- Monitoring the sales team performance and also motivating them to meet or exceed sales target
- Maintaining, updating relevant sales data and reporting the same to the management in regular intervals
- Monitoring customer feedback regularly and accordingly working on the same and also handling escalations, if any
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- Graduation is a must. MBA is desirable
- Relevant work experience of 7 – 10 years in sales and also proven work experience of managing a team and sales in an assigned city
- Excellent communication, listening and negotiation skills
- Excellent networking skills with a positive approach towards achieving set goals
- Exceptional management, customer-service, leadership and organizational skills
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite
- Build our strategic affiliate network through recruiting new affiliate & Influencer partners and actively managing relationships with our existing strategic partners, to provide quality business leads and cost-effective Lead acquisition.
- Setup, tracking, reporting, and manage affiliate program activity.
- Full management of lifecycle marketing for affiliate & Influencer
- partners.
- Generate monthly, weekly and quarterly reports along with analysis
- Ensure invoicing and payment schedules are current and on time, providing forecasting support for the business.
- Continually measure and optimize the overall program ROI
- Doing industry research and sourcing opportunities for overall business development
- Build a repository for effective sales pitches.
- Meet monthly, quarterly, annual revenue targets
Desired Profile of the candidate
- A self-starter who's comfortable working autonomously
- Experience in using affiliate tracking platforms
- Ahead for numbers, easily able to extract key insights from data
- Has to experience in creating pivots and using MS Excel overall
- Team player with a drive to help other people
- Ability to analyze data and give recommendations
- Work with multiple stakeholders for the flow of information and business process
- A passion for achieving targets