Sales Specialist

Job Description for Business Development

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Business Development to join our team in the Furniture/Fixture Retail Industry. The ideal candidate will have 3 to 4 years of relevant experience and a proven track record in sales and business development. This role will focus on identifying new business opportunities, building relationships with key stakeholders, and driving revenue growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify and target potential clients within the Furniture, Fixture Retail sectors.
• Develop and implement strategies to acquire new business and expand the company’s market presence.
• Create detailed business development plans, set objectives, and track progress against targets.
• Drive sales efforts to meet and exceed revenue goals.
• Prepare and deliver compelling sales presentations and proposals tailored to client needs.
• Negotiate contracts, pricing, and terms with clients to secure profitable deals.
• Build and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with existing and potential clients.
• Understand client needs and work closely with internal teams to provide tailored solutions.
• Act as the main point of contact for client inquiries, ensuring high levels of client satisfaction.
• Conduct market research to identify industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging opportunities.
• Analyze market data to understand customer needs and preferences, and adapt strategies accordingly.
• Monitor industry developments and suggest innovative ideas to stay ahead of the competition.
• Work closely with the design, production, and operations teams to ensure smooth project execution.
• Collaborate with marketing to develop promotional materials and campaigns that support business development efforts.
• Maintain accurate records of sales activities, client interactions, and business development progress.
• Prepare regular reports and presentations for management, highlighting achievements, challenges, and future strategies.

Key Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field.
• 3 to 4 years of experience in Business Development or Sales within the Furniture, Fixture Retail Industry, advertisement industry, event management industry.
• Proven track record of achieving sales targets and driving revenue growth.
• Strong negotiation, communication, excel and presentation skills.
• Excellent relationship-building abilities with a client-focused approach.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, with strong organizational skills.

Requirements

• Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming language (e. g. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming.
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and a huge passion and ability to design intuitive modules and class-level interfaces.
• Excellent coding skills - should be able to convert the design into code fluently.
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development. Good understanding of databases (e. g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e. g. HBase, Elasticsearch, Aerospike etc).
• Strong desire to solve complex and interesting real-world problems.
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform. Go-getter attitude that reflects in energy and intent behind assigned tasks.
• Worked in a startup-like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• BTech, MTech or Ph. D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
• Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amounts of data.
• 3+ years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a large scale.
• An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently listens intently and takes constructive feedback

Primary Skills

DynamoDB, Java, Kafka, Spark, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue, Python

Skills:

Good work experience showing growth as a Data Engineer.

Hands On programming experience

Implementation Experience on Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation.

Excellent knowledge in: Python, Scala/Java, Spark, AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, Dynamodb, EMR), Terraform, UI (Angular), Git, Mavena

Experience of performance optimization in Batch and Real time processing applications

Expertise in Data Governance and Data Security Implementation

Good hands-on design and programming skills building reusable tools and products Experience developing in AWS or similar cloud platforms. Preferred:, ECS, EKS, S3, EMR, DynamoDB, Aurora, Redshift, Quick Sight or similar.

Familiarity with systems with very high volume of transactions, micro service design, or data processing pipelines (Spark).

Knowledge and hands-on experience with server less technologies such as Lambda, MSK, MWAA, Kinesis Analytics a plus.

Expertise in practices like Agile, Peer reviews, Continuous Integration

Roles and responsibilities:

Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.

Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.

Responsible for designing, building, testing, and deploying the software releases.

Salary: 25LPA-40LPA

Digital Marketing is a lot more than what it is usually portrayed as and we delve into “the lot more”for SMBs. we have grown well and what started as a small personal project a year ago has now grown into a family of 45+ clients and 8 smart people- all within a year! And guess what, we never spent a single penny on advertising! It was all referral and so you can imagine the quality of work that we have been doing.

Now, if you are someone who can fit in such a high performing environment, do read the job description very thoroughly and then apply!

Responsibilities

Be the primary point of contact for the clients.

Assist in creating a digital strategy for the clients. These are SMEs, hard on cash but high on hope so we have to be extra wise with what we suggest!

Get things done from the CG team. You see, since you will interact with the client, you will know what they want and you alone will have to make sure that the work gets done!

Advocate for the client to ensure that we’re not just checking off boxes in a task manager, but instead moving them forward and reaching their objectives (we call this Remarkable ROI)

Note: You’re not responsible to bring in new clients (this is not a sales position). You are responsible to keep and grow your clients with Remarkable Client Experiences, Remarkable Excellence, and Remarkable ROI and if that gets us Referrals- well nothing better than that!

Note: Our digital marketing projects include both “traditional” digital marketing such as SEO and Email Marketing/Whatsapp Marketing/Affiliate Marketing as well as web design & development projects. For this position though, we will stick to SEO/SMO/PPC

What we are looking for

Digital marketing experience (and most importantly, the ability to learn & grow, stay on top of current trends, and focus on results). Followed by…

Strong project management skills (aka, the ability to efficiently and effectively get things done yourself and through other people). Followed by….

Ability to provide remarkable client experiences.

Who we are not looking for

You’re busy, we’re busy. If you don’t meet these requirements, please focus on the other fish in

the sea. These are indeed requirements

Minimum of 1.5 years as a hands-on digital marketing professional

Minimum of 1 year as someone who has been interacting with the clients. If you have worked

in B2B, it would be great!

Digital Marketing & Web Design Project experience

A focus on the details (really… pay close attention to the details if you’d like to get an interview

for this position)

If You’re a Good Fit, You Probably

Thrive in a small and growing team (<10 people on our way to 20)

Do some sort of digital marketing (or learning) in your spare time… it’s not just a day-job for

you

Know how to work on Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Google Ads, Facebook Business

Manager, Instagram Marketing, Email Marketing Tools, Canva (just a little bit), WordPress,

Wix, and anything else that is relevant to digital marketing

Feel at home with spreadsheets and task management tools

Are comfortable with IM tools, email, video calls, and the phone but believe in the power of

minimising interactions.

BTW: when applying, use the passcode “WTH

Regional Sales Manager

Company Profile

Ashnik is a leading enterprise open source solutions company in Southeast Asia and India, enabling organizations to adopt open source for their digital transformation goals. Founded in 2009, it offers a full-fledged Open Source Marketplace, Solutions, and Services – Consulting, Managed, Technical, Training. Over 200 leading enterprises so far have leveraged Ashnik’s offerings in the space of Database platforms, DevOps & Microservices, Kubernetes, Cloud, and Analytics.

As a team culture, Ashnik is a family for its team members. Each member brings in different perspective, new ideas and diverse background. Yet we all together strive for one goal – to deliver best solutions to our customers using open-source software. We passionately believe in the power of collaboration. Through an open platform of idea exchange, we create vibrant environment for growth and excellence.

Responsibilities

• Create strong relationships with key client stakeholders at both senior and mid-
  management levels
• Create & articulate compelling value propositions around the use of Open-source technology
• Understand Ashnik’s capabilities & services and effectively communicate offerings to the customers
• Create, implement and own a sales pipeline to manage customer lead intake, outbound activity, prioritization and metrics for measurement of deal status
• Understand the competitive landscape and market trends
• Establish sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for regions and territories; projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products/technologies
• Desire to own projects and exceed expectations, with ability to find solutions and deliver results within a rapidly changing, entrepreneurial, technology-driven culture
• Ability to identify and solve client issues strategically
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with management and cross-functional teams, for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Work with the Sales, pre-sales, technical and Operations, teams to implement targeted sales strategy
• Generate and maintain accurate Account and Opportunity plans
• Work with internal teams on behalf of clients to ensure the highest level of customer service
• Interface with technical support internally to resolve issues that directly impact partners
• Establish high levels of quality, accuracy and process consistency for the sales team
• Reporting and analytics
• Ensure reports and other internal intelligence and insight is provided to the sales team
• Keen business sense, with the ability to find creative business-oriented solutions to problems.

Qualification and Skills

• Graduate with minimum 8-10 years of experience in selling IT software products to large enterprises in South India
• Strong skills in enterprise sales cycle
• Familiarity with open source software is highly desirable
• Strong communication and presentation skills

Location: Bangalore

Package: upto 20L

What does this role hold for you…??

• Responsibility for the entire process of lead management, sales and business development for the region.
• Driving scale and growth through proper sales planning and precise execution.
• Data management to ensure 100% coverage in assigned territory and tracking other key parameters.
• Client acquisition campaigns and lead generation to build as a flagship brand for Property Services in the respective region.
• Responsibility service delivery ensuring client retention and reference.
• Providing the market intelligence, data analytics and insights for the marketing team to launch the right promotional and customer communication initiatives.
• Responsibility for achieving targets in the designated areas.
• Developing and maintaining of database regular reporting &follow-ups.
• B2B Frontline Sales.
• Mapping of new projects and new builders in designated territories, acquisition of new projects and new builders to ensure coverage across designated territory.
• Relationship Management with existing clients to ensure 100% coverage of new projects launched by them.
• Achieving revenue and coverage targets.
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Apply if you have…

• Post-graduation degree with 3 to 5 yrs of experience in B2B/Channel sales responsibility.
• Have worked in a real estate business.
• An outgoing and likable personality
• Confidence and authoritative speaking
• Strong presentation skills & confidence in your own abilities
• A high degree of self-motivation
• A passion for selling, Personal ambition, Resilience and persistence
• Ability to communicate with people at all levels & strong negotiation skills
• Ability to work own your own initiative and as part of a team
• Strong execution skills
• Knowledge of MS office (word and excel) and know how to use Internet.