Sales Development Specialist

Company Overview: SkillDeck is a fast-growing training and development organization specializing in high-demand areas like HR, technology, digital marketing, and more. We aim to empower professionals and students by providing top-tier training solutions that enhance employability and performance. We’re seeking proactive Business Development Executives who can forge valuable partnerships with colleges and corporate organizations, accelerating our reach and impact.

Job Summary: As a Business Development Executive for Partnerships, you will play a critical role in expanding SkillDeck’s influence in the education and corporate sectors. You will be responsible for identifying, approaching, and securing partnerships with educational institutions and businesses to facilitate large-scale training and upskilling initiatives. This is a high-impact position where you will contribute directly to SkillDeck’s growth strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Partnership Acquisition:

• Identify and develop relationships with key stakeholders in colleges, universities, and corporate organizations.
• Initiate and conduct meetings with decision-makers to present SkillDeck’s course offerings, subscription models, and other training solutions.

Proposal Development:

• Create customized partnership proposals and presentations that address the needs of academic and corporate clients.
• Draft and negotiate partnership agreements, including terms of collaboration, pricing, and deliverables.

Market Research & Analysis:

• Conduct research to identify trends and demand in training areas like HR, data science, digital marketing, etc., within the college and corporate sectors.
• Analyze the competitive landscape and adjust partnership strategies accordingly to position SkillDeck as a preferred training partner.

Project Management:

• Oversee the successful implementation of partnership agreements, ensuring that deliverables and timelines are met.
• Collaborate with internal teams (content, marketing, and product) to customize course offerings as per partner requirements.

Relationship Building & Networking:

• Maintain ongoing relationships with existing partners, providing regular updates and exploring opportunities for growth.
• Attend industry conferences, networking events, and educational fairs to promote SkillDeck and connect with potential partners.

Reporting and Goal Tracking:

• Track partnership performance metrics, generate reports, and present insights to management.
• Meet or exceed quarterly targets for new partnerships, revenue, and client engagement.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field (MBA preferred).
• 3-5 years of experience in business development, sales, or partnership roles, preferably in the education or training industry.
• Proven track record of closing deals with academic institutions or corporate clients.
• Strong negotiation and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Familiarity with training and development trends, particularly in technology and professional upskilling.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with CRM software for tracking leads and managing client relationships.
• Established network within the education or corporate training sectors.
• Knowledge of digital marketing, HR, or technology-related training is a plus.

Why Join Us:

• Opportunity to work with a leading brand in the training industry.
• Competitive salary with performance-based incentives.
• Career growth potential within a rapidly expanding organization.
• Exposure to diverse projects and client bases.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of Python web framework - Django
• Familiarity with backend automated testing tools and frameworks
• Experience with backend/API development
• Architect, develop and maintain backend libraries/codebase, database & server.
• Develop object-oriented software, with mastery of one or more relevant languages (Django).
• Evaluate competitive and innovative products and design approaches to identify best practices and encourage innovation.
• Understanding the requirement of a client, document the scope and chart out a plan of implementing the scope
• Work with design team to give inputs related to the wire-frames and then the design along with incorporating Client Feedback
• Explore the difference between B2B and B2C projects before implementing the code
• Work in teams of 2-3 on various projects as per the requirement using git as version control
• Having good knowledge of APIs creation and database architecture
• Good Grasp in respective technology (Django)
• Documenting the process and main functions along the developing process
• Design and develop highly scalable, highly available, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems with minimal guidance for one of the fastest-growing companies in India.

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience required
• Strong hand on Django-Python
• Excellent knowledge of using the Git version control system and deployment via Git.
• You have creative visualization, critical thinking, deductive & pragmatic reasoning and can think out-of-the-box
• Ability to quickly adapt & independently work in a fast-paced Agile environment with minimum supervision.
• A self-starter with demonstrated ability to take initiative, who can proactively identify issues/opportunities and recommend action.

Your job as a business development manager is to identify sales leads, pitch our product to new clients and onboard them, and maintain a good working relationship with new contacts/schools. Communicating new product developments to prospective clients.

1. Meeting schools and onboarding them
2. Creating and managing top level sales funnel and generate leads
3. Organize and coordinate operations in ways that ensure maximum productivity
4. Managing customer and channel affiliated relationship with client
5. Conducting demos and presentation of the product
6. Monitor sales, marketing & operational activities; implement strategies to maximise channel sales & collections as well as smooth operations.
7. Review your own sales performance, aim to meet or exceed targets
8. Gather market and customer information and provide feedback on the same

Why you?

1. 5 + years experience in a sales role with schools, preferably in edtech and having a client base ( having direct relationship with the school management) of around 100-150 schools in their region.
2. B.tech/MBA degree.
3. Detailed understanding of the principles of sales
4. Strong communication skills
5. Proven track record in achieving sales quotas
6. Open to travelling.

Perks:

Apart from very competitive compensation, you will:

1. Work in a high paced growth environment
2. Work with a very experienced team

Must have attributes:

1. Extreme sense of ownership
2. Bias for action
3. Ability to change the preempt and iterate the course of action to achieve targets.

Job description

Position: Qa Project Lead

Working Days: 5 days 

Experience: 7+ years

Location: Noida Sector-62 ( Work from office only)

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience with SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) and STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle).
• Very good experience in all types of testing methodologies, test planning and test execution.
• Good knowledge of manual and automation testing.
• Should have Experience with automation testing using Selenium or any other API/Tool and leading automation developers.
• Experience in deployment of applications using any web server and maintaining a test environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team and should have minimum 2-3 years experience in delivering Enterprise level projects as a Project Lead.
• Adhering to quality standards/process and time schedules provided.
• Strong Stakeholder Management and Communication skills.
• Able to multitask in a dynamic environment.

We stand for educator empowerment where they have absolute command over their class conduction. We at Being Pupil always strive for quality and ease. Being Pupil specializes in facilitating teaching practices for educators in accordance to their ease and techniques. We offer you a unique chance to join our community of educators, stand with us and empower together. Our focus is growth hence we don't believe in stagnation. We are here to cater to your needs and revolutionize the education system.

We are currently looking for educators to join us in our community! Minimum requirements:-

-Good command on English, however candidates having an extensive educational background in their respective domains are also welcome.

-Excellent communication skills. -Prior online teaching experience would act as an advantage.

-Any prior teaching experience can also be applicable -Candidates pursuing their bachelors are also applicable.

- Must possess a passion to impact aspirants and shape young minds.

- Must be enthusiastic and possess the urge to simplify complex topics.

- Proactive in clarifying the learner's doubts and assist them in engaging and gaining a better understanding.

This is a community created with the vision to bring back the importance and value each educator acquires. 

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; and following the software development lifecycle.
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment, and by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Supports and develops software engineers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities.

‘Project Manager’ will be completely responsible for building a very robust team to operationally manage, meet KPIs, build strategy, and execute the project.

• Determine and define project scope and objectives
• Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
• Prepare a budget based on the scope of work and resource requirements
• Track project costs in order to meet budget
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
• Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
• Manage contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables
• Utilize industry best practices, techniques, training, and standards throughout the entire project execution
• Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed
• Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement

While working at the company also endure...

• Opportunity to work with all the top-notch growing brands and startups
• Learning marketing, integrated campaigns, and growth
• -hacking of brands in different sectors
• Becoming a part of an enthusiastic, amazing culture, and fast-growing organization
• Opportunity to become an active stakeholder and driver of the organization

What you will need:

• Graduate degree with 2-4 years of experience handling projects, campaigns, and team
• Candidate with an agency, offline marketing execution, or startup background would be preferred
• Quick learner, confident, good presentation & relation-building skills
• Open for travel and ready to go the extra mile if the situation demands
• Keen attention to detail and good at spotting opportunities
• Client/Agency relationship exposure with strong relationship management skills
• Go-Getter attitude and responsibility to close all loops creatively - Long term vision and commitment

Role Description:

• Design, build, and maintain applications using Node.JS
• Hands-on working on various Azure PAAS services.
• Good problem solving abilities along with strong understanding of Data structures, various design patterns & algorithms.
• Enhance existing services and applications to increase availability, reliability, and scalability in a microservices environment
• Work across the engineering team to build new features and services at scale
• Improve engineering tooling, process, and standards to enable faster, more consistent, more reliable, and highly repeatable application delivery
• Remain engaged with latest technology trends and understand operational challenges to continually evolve application delivery processes and platform components
• Support platform technology decisions based on performance metrics and operational SLAs
• Provide guidance and best practices around security for applications and platform infrastructure

Qualifications:

• 3+ years software development experience using Node.JS
• Must have experience & understanding of working on Azure PAAS services.
• Strong understanding of Azure PAAS services like Services, Service Bus, etc.
• Exposure/understanding of JavaScript frameworks like Angular.JS/React.JS is added advantage.
• Experience with database and cloud technologies
• Understand the benefits of microservices, but also understand the challenges they bring and current trends on how to address those challenges
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent, Master’s degree preferred.