Product Manager

• Cold calling, Lead generation, Lead Capture, Lead qualification distribution.
• Construct Tele sales pitches On-line presentations.
• Maintain Sales funnel Track through sales calls process and follow-ups until deal closure.
• Develop and execute business plans to achieve and exceed monthly, quarterly, and/or annual sales goals as assigned.
• Grow business through the development of new leads, contacts, and clients.
• Identify new revenue opportunities and Lead generation.
• Build business relationships with current and potential clients.
• Execute, Maintain and update sales tasks activities in the official CRM software/application.
• Manage Sales pipelines, Deal funneling, prospecting, and closing opportunities into top accounts.
• Conduct calls with customers and prospects, provide effective presentations, written proposals to prospective customers.
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of products technology as well as industry trends.

Qualifications, Experience Skillset

• Masters/Bachelor s degree in Business Administration, or equivalent
• 1-2 years Inside Sales/tele-calling experience
• Exposure in IT Sales, Software sales or EdTech preferred.
• Well-verse with CRM tools, Digital/social media, web conferencing, etc.
• Intuitive and insightful, particularly in human behavior.
• Ability to generate revenue by identifying pain points and suggesting suitable products or services.
• Excellent written + verbal communication , Tele-calling skills convincing approach.
• Resourceful, with outstanding research skills.
• Must own a Laptop Smartphone.

This position demands strong banking /BFSI domain expertise,

precisely retail lending stack.

Senior Presales Manager / Leads.

Work Location : Hyderabad.

Pennant is looking for highly experienced and seasoned Senior Presales Manager to drive the presales function and to support the Sales and Business Development team from functional and solution perspective of Lending Factory which is Pennant's flagship product suite covers the complete loan life cycle. As a senior presales manager, you are accountable for driving the presales life cycle in client acquisition, revenue generation and growth. If you are seasoned professional with excellent understanding of the business application from the functional and technical perspective preferably in the BFSI area, this is an excellent opportunity with tremendous growth potential.

Growth Opportunity:

Banking is the biggest consumer of technology and the share is simply growing. Banks generate maximum profits out of Lending operations hence it’s imperative for them to ensure they use the right business driven technological platforms or solution right from the customer on-boarding, origination, servicing till the closure. In the past few years FI’s have not been able to refresh lending tech stack and that’s leading to challenges, higher operational cost and customer dissatisfaction. However the stupendous growth in lending activities across the segments, markets and LOB’s in the recent times has created once in a decade business opportunity for Pennant. Do you want to be part of our growth story?

Roles & Responsibilities:

·      You have to bring in domain and industry knowledge, share know-how gained through client interactions in a structured way to the product engineering, implementation, sales, marketing and senior management;

·      Role involves gathering market competition and customer information, responding to RFPs/RFIs- Functional/Technical compliances, Solution Preparation, Proposal preparation, as per the timelines of prospect/customer, coordinate with different internal/external teams to identify the business pains to offer a solution in line with the client requirement

·      Work closely with various internal teams to orchestrate the right technical, functional and commercial responses that create differentiated value for Pennant and help winning bids;

·      Take bottom line responsibility for highest possible quality of our responses, presentations and interactions with the prospect;

·      Prepare and present the company and its responses to CXO’s of the prospect;

·      Lead discovery workshops to determine customers business challenges and deliver product demonstrations to align solution with customer needs

·      Collaborate with marketing and take responsibility to build collaterals for specific LOB’s, personas and modules; refresh them on regular basis;

·      Write blogs, whitepapers and contribute content for website/social media as an when required; get noticed;

·      Mentoring and handholding the junior staff and build excellent presales capabilities

·      Deserving candidate would have worked in the past in technical solutions and presales capacity

Skills and Competencies:

·      Great presentation and communication skills is a must;

·      Hunger for world class quality work is expected;

·      Minimum of 5 years plus experience in handling multi-million USD international pursuits;

·      Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services to the highest possible quality;

·      Deep knowledge of banking applications, hardware and software, including lending business processes and programming;

·      Coordination, presentation skills, objection handling and effective written communication, questioning skills, influencing and personal impact;

·      Excellent intra personal skills and problem-solving skills;

·      Able to persuade client to buy our software;

·      Demonstrating integrity and transparency in the engagement;

Experience & Qualifications:

·      Experience : 8-15 years (I am open to consider Presales Consultants with 4+ years of experience also)

·      MBA graduate from a reputed institute or CA

Job Details:

·      Work Location : Hyderabad .. - 5 days, Work from office, no hybrid now.

·      Territory : Domestic and International Markets

• Attributes: Resourceful, Self-starter, Independent and Self-motivated, Ambitious, Entrepreneurial spirit, Collaborative, Focused

About Pennant:

Pennant Technologies is an agile, innovative financial technology company that powers the lending operations of global banks and financial institutions - HDFC, Bajaj Finserve, LIC HFL, Godrej HFL, RAK Bank, QNB to name a few.

Its suite of future ready lending products and solutions offer banks composable features and scalable capabilities to deliver differentiated loan origination, servicing and collections experiences for their customers. Trusted by leading banks and financial institutions in Asia, Pennant’s award-winning lending platform has managed more than 10 Million loans and facilitates 50 Million loan transactions per year.

Pennant is HQ in Hyderabad and have offices and/ business operations in India, ME, Saudi, Australia, Philippines and UK. We are aggressively expanding across the geographies and adding to our 450+ workforce, spread across multiple locations. Visit us at www.pennanttech.com

• 2 – 5 years of experience selling a SaaS solution, ideally selling B2B Enterprise Solutions.
• A classic enterprise solution seller with hands-on experience in technology.
• A strong passion for overachieving enterprise sales numbers in a hunting profile.
• Having a sterling career so far already in achieving sales targets and wants to look at fast growth in a sales career and therefore being totally performance-driven.
• On-the-foot thinker and ability to build long-lasting professional relationships.
• You are interested in selling technology related to AI, SAAS solutions, and/or predictive analytics.
• Would be an Individual contributor but aiming to become a Sales Leader.
• Would already have working relationships across enterprise leaders in HR / IT / PMO teams
• Hunter - appetite for opening and closing new accounts.
• Track record of outstanding sales performance including exceeding quotas, winning sales awards, etc.
• Experience managing complex sales cycles.
• Driven, self-motivated, proactive, and excited about being at a start-up
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing environment.
• Partner with Customer Success to onboard the right customers and drive adoption/engagement in the first year.
• Strong executive presence.
• Experience selling to HR and TA leads would be an added advantage.
• Experience selling to the IT and ITES/BPO sector will be an added advantage.
• Experience selling HR tech solutions will be an added advantage

Responsibilities

• Work on a full product development lifecycle from requirement gathering, product design, development, to roll out and maintenance
• Effectively collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders including product and design
• Own the delivery of multiple features of the product end to end 
• Advocate best development practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, automation (testing and infrastructure) and code modularity, extensibility, quality
• Experience in building Websites from Scratch is a big plus

Primary Skills:

• Min 6+ Years in Web Application Development
• Write clean, solid and testable code while keeping the user experience fast and reliable
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JS, JQuery, React, Redux 
• Proficient in Web Interface designing
• Experience in developing reusable UI components
• Deep functional knowledge or hands on design experience with Web Services 

Strong grasp of security principles and how they apply to E-Commerce websites

LOOKING FOR IMMEDIATE JOINERS OR 30DAYS FROM PRODUCT/ECOMM COMPANIES

• 6-13 years’ experience designing for high performing digital products across various domains
• Degree in design-related field or equivalent experience.
• Good understanding of design patterns, industry trends, and great approaches to solve problems
• Expertise in core UX disciplines including information architecture, interaction design, application of design systems, and UI design.
• Creative problem-solver with a strong eye for detail
• Experience and understanding of Responsive Web Design
• Experience with iOS and Android Mobile App Design
• Must have Software Proficiency with Figma, Sketch, Miro
• Proficient in wire-framing and comfortable producing concept sketches and user flows
• A passion for UX and User Research
• A strong portfolio which demonstrates work across a range of clients
• Strong experience of user research and usability testing
• Passionate about Design Thinking.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Experience with accessibility, localization, and internationalization.
• Experience working directly with developers to ensure the successful implementation of a design specifications
• Familiarity with content strategy, content management, taxonomy and large scale digital publishing.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Knowledge with QA and testing methods is a plus.
• All candidates will be required to submit a portfolio of work samples and/or links to their work.