Manager - Brand Partnerships

About the Company: 

The Media Ant is one of India’s Top Media Planning and Buying platforms with 12 years of expertise serving over 3000 clients. We cater to over 11 media verticals and 3.5 Lakh media options. 

Please visit our website (www.TheMediaAnt.com) to learn more.

About the Team:

Alliance and Agency Partnerships team role is to form ties with various agencies in the marketing domain to help them in upselling media planning and buying services. This team helps such agencies in generating more business from their existing clients and helps in retaining the clients for a longer duration. 

About the Role:

Intern will be working in the Alliance and Partnerships team. Day-to-day responsibilities will be to market research efforts, handle inbound leads, foster potential partnerships and interact with agency partners in closing requirements.

Who can apply?

Only those candidates can apply who:

1. Are available for a full-time (in-office) internship (location- Indiranagar, Bangalore)
2. Can start immediately.
3. Are available for a duration of 2 - 6 months.
4. Graduate or above

Must have Skills:

1. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
2. A self-starter with a strong work ethic and a desire to learn.
3. Excited to do sales and interact with people
4. Understanding of sales funnel

Perks:

1. Certificate
2. Monthly stipend- 10-15K
3. Letter of recommendation
4. Opportunity to learn and build a career in this domain.
5. Develop strong business acumen and relationship management skills.
6. Be part of a high growth startup

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Manage our web publishing/app partners to drive growth both online & offline.
• Build trusted, strategic relationships with partners and develop a thorough understanding of their business challenges. Understand the client’s challenges/opportunities of growth.
• Cross-promote new products or features that will have a positive impact on partner relationships. Assist with partners' business goals by proposing optimal and creative solutions.
• Build sustainable businesses. Provide excellent partner experience by giving customers adequate attention.
• Manage relationships with internal stakeholders, including leadership team and a broad spectrum of other functions, such as Product, Engineering, Finance and Marketing.
• Increasing revenues.

II Experience:

• Nature of Experience: 3 years of relevant, client-facing experience in sales, consulting, digital advertising, e-commerce or publishing.
• Length of Experience: 3 - 6 years.

III Skill Set & Personality Traits required:

• Experience developing & growing partnership and developing business relationships that impact company performance.
• Quick learner with the ability to grasp complex technical products such as AdSense and Google Ad Manager
• Ability to work in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. Self-directed, motivated, and driven performer with exceptional multi-tasking abilities.
• Demonstrated analytical skills and data-driven thought process with the ability to analyse complex business metrics and infer their impact on business growth.

Additional information:

• Prior work experience in E-commerce Industry or startups will be an added advantage.

Job Description :-

Our Client is a sustainable livelihood program for urban disadvantaged youth. By fostering agency, workplace competencies and skills in youth, they unleash social and economic transformation in the communities that the youth come from.

Expectations / Deliverables :-

● Build enduring relationships with skilling organizations for co-creation of curriculum for the program

● GOYN brand-building and formalizing partnerships with skilling partners

● Engage with employers in the Logistics industry to be a part of the working group and co-create the curriculum with skilling partners

● Ensure co-creation of courses curriculum for Basix and Advanced courses by skilling organizations and employers

● Ensure creation of a dynamic working relationship with partners to ensure smooth enrolment of youth into the program, completion of training and placements.

● Ensure timely updates from partners regarding youth livelihood status to help maintain the youth journey database

● Put in place feedback mechanisms to record and act on feedback from partners and youth

● Ensure post placement support and engagement with employers to bring about changes at workplace to make the sector more aspirational for youth

● Be up to date with any developments in the ecosystem and forge new partnerships with youth facing organizations, skilling organisations and employers in the Logistics and supply chain sector

Requirements ;-

Preferred Skill sets, Years of Experience, Professional Background:

● Post Graduation in any background, with 1-3 years of experience in the field of partnership building from corporate background

● Computer proficiency- MS Office

● Strong commitment towards building relationships with organizations in the ecosystem

● Strong verbal and written communication skills in Marathi, Hindi and English

● Ability to handle difficult situations with confidence and wisdom.

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Build and develop commercial relationships with our key targeted B2B partners (e-rickshaw, battery dealers and distributors).

2. Establish a systematic approach for partner outreach and B2B relationship management.

3. Strategize newer ways to grow current partnerships & form new ones.

4. Understand the current market trends and build & grow relationships accordingly.

5. Negotiate and finalize the partnership deals.

Desired Skills

1. 3+ years of relevant work experience.

2. Successfully built and managed B2B partnerships in the past.

3. Excellent at Opportunity Analysis and Business Planning.

If you are someone

1. Who is resourceful, and able to effectively negotiate and close the B2B deals. You prefer traveling and visiting B2B partners.

2. Understand internal dynamics and partner profiles to create a win-win situation.

3. Energetic, hunger to learn.

4. Comfortable getting your hands dirty and high on execution.

This Opportunity is for YOU!

Job Description:

• Develop business plans and manage partnerships to offer value added services for Prepaid card users.
• Compare with competition, keep track and maintain competitive track sheet.
• Brings strategic tie-ups which can aligned with card offerings.
• Building relationships with affiliates & partners for more business, better placements & visibility.
• Managing end-to-end promotions & offer execution for partner sale events- Festive campaigns, OEM launches.

What you need to have:

• research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets
• seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation
• generate leads and cold call prospective customers
• meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone
• foster and develop relationships with customers/clients
• understand the needs of our customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these
• think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business
• have a good understanding of the businesses' products or services and be able to advise others about them

 About the role:  

• We are looking for an energetic partnership and alliances manager to help us expand our clientèle.

• The goal is to drive sustainable financial growth through boosting partnerships and forging strong relationships with clients.

• New Business Development: Prospecting potential E-commerce clients for successful and profitable alliance for various lines of product.

• Researching organizations and individuals on-line (especially on social media) to identify new leads and potential new markets.

• Researching the needs of other companies and learning who makes decisions about purchasing.

• Understand products and services offered by us and be able to articulate its functions and benefits to external audiences.

• On boarding the New partner, scoping out the business, and ensuring a smooth transition of the channel.

• Great interpersonal skills promote interest, which can ultimately lead to purchases. Other essential factors include:

• Salesmanship – understanding the needs of others and presenting your company as capable of meeting their desires leads to buying

•  Thick skin – potential customers do not always wish to be contacted and sales efforts fail quite routinely, so the ability to move on from negative situations is imperative 

• Multitasking skills – juggling multiple projects and clients is commonplace and requires good time management, attention to detail, and prioritization

• Industry background – experience in the area in which one is selling can be required or at least helpful, such as healthcare knowledge when promoting medical insurance

• Analytical skills. Person must evaluate the characteristics of each client to determine the appropriate insurance policy.

• Communication skills. Person must be able to communicate effectively with customers by listening to their requests and suggesting suitable policies.

• Initiative. Person need to actively seek out new customers to maintain a flow of commissions.

• Self-confidence. Person should be confident when making “cold” calls (calls to prospective customers who have not been contacted before). They must speak clearly and persuasively and maintain their composure if rejected.

 Responsibilities:  

• Your primary focus is to identify, pitch, negotiate and on-board new clients on the field. You will work on game-changing ideas, use deep business insight and market knowledge to play a critical role in bringing prospects through the full sales cycle.

• Work with the management team to identify and evaluate new markets, new target clients.

• Develop and implement strategic sales plan. Identify and evaluate specific new profitable business opportunities. Initiate and complete proposals and presentations for new business opportunities

• To maintain an excellent client relationship with existing and potential clients

• Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs

• Promote the company’s products/services addressing or predicting clients’ objectives. Prepare sales contracts ensuring adherence to law-established rules and guidelines

• Meeting the untapped segments and markets.Build the brand, Responsible for Growth and Partnership

• Designed innovative products for the customers as per the needs.

• Established relations with major corporates to be a partner in their financial supports for employees and for the wealth advisory.

• Ensure business target achievement: Pipeline building, Client conversion, Onboarding and Revenues

• Manage customer expectations through cross-functional interactions & ensuring that deliverables are completed. Develop excellent relationships with key clients, provide support during implementation, onboarding and troubleshooting any product issues or concerns.

 Requirements: 

• Being pleasantly persistent. Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Ruthless time management and timely delivery of tasks allocated.

• Strong Business Development & consultative selling skills.

• Passionate people who want to hustle and can handle ambiguity

• History of consistently exceeding KPIs, revenue targets and company goals

• Ability to resolve problems, adapt, and grow quickly as we create the Client Success organization