Senior Sales Associate - Inside sales

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated and innovative Business Development Associate to join our team. The ideal candidate will identify new business opportunities, conduct market research, build and maintain client relationships, and collaborate with internal teams. You'll play a key role in bridging the gap between clients and the organization, driving growth, and ensuring our offerings align with client needs.

Must have skills

• Seeking freshers to those with up to 2 years of experience.
• Excellent customer service and sales skills.
• Strong verbal and written communicator. 
• Excellent presentation skills. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Identify and target potential customers to generate new sales opportunities.
• Initiate contact with prospective clients through calls, emails, and social media to establish connections and schedule meetings.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with both new and existing customers.
• Understand customer needs and provide customized solutions that align with their purchasing goals.
• Create and present engaging presentations and proposals to potential customers.
• Negotiate terms and close sales to achieve or surpass sales targets, focusing on stock placement subscriptions.
• Conduct market research to stay informed about industry trends, competitors, and potential growth areas in B2C sales.
• Analyze sales data and market trends to identify new opportunities for expanding the business.
• Collaborate with marketing and product development teams to ensure business development efforts align with overall company strategy.
• Gather feedback and insights from customers to help refine product offerings and marketing strategies.
• Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to business development and sales activities.
• Prepare regular reports for management to review progress and outcomes.

Skills:

• 8+ years of software development experience using traditional software development life cycle methodologies (covering requirements, design, development, testing and Implementation of n-tier architecture)
• Extensive experience with object-oriented software development methodologies and practices. Strong in following technologies
• OOAD/OOPS/UML, Design Patterns, MVC, Spring, Hibernate, Java, J2EE
• UI technologies AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, java script library, Ajax and other UI frameworks
• Exposure to component model design, SOA, open sources framework/tools
• Web Services, JMS, XML, SQL& Oracle
• Must have exposed with Test Driven Development/Re-factoring ideas/ Domain driven design patterns/continuous integration/Build Automation / Data-Mapper framework/Mocks.

Good to Have: Microservices

Competencies:

• Experience in developing platforms or frameworks, components
• Excellent knowledge of the open source software/ tools/ technologies

• Web application development experience in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript (including new ES features), Python
• Hands-on experience in any one of the python-based backend frameworks like Django or Flask or Pyramid along with end to end testing
• Hands-on experience in building high performant React applications
• Hands-on experience working with Object Oriented JavaScript (OOJS), JavaScript libraries and their practical uses in building complex interactive experiences
• Hands-on experience working with TDD in JS with the help of frameworks like Mocha, Chai, Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library etc.
• In depth knowledge of SQL is a must. SQL Technologies that are desired are MySQL, PostGres, Oracle
• Experience in state management libraries like Redux and MobX
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Familiarity with various component libraries and design systems
• Proficient in using media queries and CSS frameworks like bootstrap or foundation for implementing responsive web design patterns in the applications
• Knowledge of common JavaScript design patterns
• Experience in owning Code Quality and Code Review processes
• Experience on Node.js is an advantage
• Work "in the trenches" with junior developers to implement large features that wow our clients
• Partner with Managers, Business Analysts, and test analysts to develop realistic implementation plans with a focus on quality, sustainability, and delivering value to our clients
• Stand up for coding best practices that ensure quality products: automated testing, unit testing, agile development, continuous integration, code reviews, and technical design
• Improve technical skills of self and the team
• Research industry trends and web technologies, and promote adoption of best-in-class web tools and technologies
• Understand client business issues and actively participate in designing solutions and features that meet client needs
• Take initiative to advance the quality, responsiveness, architecture, or design of our solution, if you want to make it happen you can.
• Excellent organizational and task management skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in global cross-office teams
• Fluency in English is required

Responsibilities

- Building and maintenance of resilient and scalable production infrastructure 

- Improvement of monitoring systems

- Creation and support of development automation processes (CI / CD)

- Participation in infrastructure development 

- Detection of problems in architecture and proposing of solutions for solving them 

- Creation of tasks for system improvements for system scalability, performance and monitoring

- Analysis of product requirements in the aspect of devops 

- Managing a team of DevOps, control of task deliveries 

- Incident analysis and fixing 

Technology stack

Linux, Bash, Salt/Ansible, LXC, libvirt, IPsec, VXLAN, Open vSwitch, OpenVPN, OSPF, BIRD, Cisco NX-OS, Multicast, PIM, LVM, software RAID, LUKS, PostgreSQL, nginx, haproxy, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, GitLab, Capistrano

Skills and Experience

- Understanding of the distributed systems principles 

- Understanding of principles for building a resistant network infrastructure 

- Experience of Ubuntu Linux administration (Debian-like will be a plus)

- Strong knowledge of Bash

- Experience of working with LXC-containers 

- Understanding and experience with infrastructure as a code approach 

- Experience of development idempotent Ansible roles

- Experience with relational databases (PostgeSQL), ability to create simple SQL queries 

- Experience with git

- Experience with monitoring and metric collect systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)

- Understanding of dynamic routing (OSPF)  

Preferred experience

- Experience of working with highload zero-downtown environments 

- Experience of coding on Python

- Experience of working with IPsec, VXLAN, Open vSwitch

- Knowledge and experience of working with network equipment Cisco

- Experience of working with Cisco NX-OS

- Knowledge of principles of multicast protocols IGMP, PIM

- Experience of setting multicast on Cisco equipment

- Experience of working with Solarflare Onload

- Experience administering Atlassian products

Are you convinced that the people are the most invaluable part of all organizations? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

1. Scour the ends of planet earth in search of solid personalities and technical skill sets that will flourish within Blok.
2. Act as a brand ambassador for Blok. Strive to provide a candidate experience that is not Blok-centric, but rather candidate-centric. We may not work with all candidates, but all should have positive impressions about Blok.
3. Evaluate candidates within their own unique context. Always bear in mind that people have their own unique stories.
4. Not be limited by our current ways of sourcing candidates. Find new ways. Create them if necessary. Widen the range whenever possible.
5. Work together with interviewers from the technology team to accurately determine candidates’ technical expertise.
6. Travel (Covid-permitting!) to places that become major sources of recruitment, both to conduct real-time interviews and follow-up with onboarded talents.
   Requirements

1. English is an absolute must. An increasing percentage of our candidates use English as their language of preference.
2. Energy. Quickly absorb Blok's unique energy, and exert that energy in your communication with potential recruits. You are, after all, an outward-facing representative of Blok, a startup that is a pioneer in the ultra-fast grocery delivery industry.
3. Resilience, because often you’ll get hyped about a potential candidate, but for one of many valid reasons, it may not work out. Remember that matching job-seekers with employers is after all a rather complicated matching process.
4. We should know the rules to win the war for talent. Bear in mind legislative processes and cross-cultural differences.
5. Previous background in talent acquisition, especially in early-stage technology-first startups would be a strong advantage.
6. The ability to evaluate technical skills is preferred, but not an absolute requirement.
   
   Who You Are

1. A visionary, who is invested in the vision of making Blok a world-class, people-centric organization.
2. An empath, who sees the success of their organization and its people as their own success.
3. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
4. A doer, who takes initiative regardless of boundaries and works well in a team.

• Identifying, qualifying, and securing business opportunities; coordinating business generation activities; developing customized targeted sales strategies
• Building business relationships with current and potential clients
• Understanding client needs and offering solutions and support; answering potential client questions and follow-up call questions; responding to client requests for proposals (RFPs)
• Creating informative presentations; presenting and delivering information to potential clients at client meetings, industry exhibits, trade shows, and conferences, to grow business
• Creating and maintaining a list/database of prospect clients; maintaining a database of prospective client information
• Cold calling; making multiple outbound calls to potential clients; closing sales and working with the client through the closing process
• Meeting all quotas for cold, active, inactive calls, appointments, and interviews; meeting or exceeding annual sales goals
• Maintaining a pipeline of all sales administration using appropriate CRM software
• Collaborating with management on sales goals, planning, and forecasting; maintaining short- and long-term business development plans  

• Experience with lead generation and prospect management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; the ability to call, connect, and interact with potential customers
• Persuasive and goal-oriented
• Possesses an energetic, outgoing, and friendly demeanor
• Able to professionally and confidently communicate with C-Level Executives
• High school degree or equivalent
• Four years of cold calling experience; previous experience in an outbound call center, inside sales experience, or related sales experience; knowledge of sales process from initiation to close
• Excellent analytical and time-management skills
• Demonstrated and proven sales results
• Ability to work independently  and achieve targets