Strategic Partnerships Head - Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform
About Merito :
Merito is a curated talent platform where we identify, assess, and connect candidates for matching job opportunities. We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done. The company is founded by a team consisting of alumni from IIM Ahmedabad, McKinsey with more than 2 decades of experience in recruitment, training, and coaching.
About Our Client :
Our client is headquartered in California and Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform for creators & knowledge professionals (coaches, instructors, experts, artists etc.) to launch, manage and grow their business online. Founded by IIT/ IIM/ BITS/ Yale/ BCG Alumni and 3X Entrepreneurs, they are well funded and backed by top Indian VC firms along with start-up veterans like Kunal Shah (CRED). The company is founded by alumni from top IITs, IIMs, BITS, Yale including ex-entrepreneurs and from firms such as BCG, Hike, Dunzo and P&G.
Since the launch of its first version in December 2020 they have grown 25X. Creators have earned more than $1 Million since launch through the platform.
We have just closed our series A (yet to announce) and are looking to build out our leadership team across functions.
Job Description :
As a Strategic Partnerships Head you'll be responsible for forming partnerships with affiliates, brands and agencies to meet customer acquisition goals - whatever it takes for the company to grow 100X.
Key Responsibilities :
- Responsible for forming partnerships with affiliates, brands and agencies
- Formulate partnership deliverables that meet business growth objectives.
- Market research to identify most impactful partnerships.
- Manage end to end cycle for striking deals with potential partners.
- Lead the complete strategic partnership team
The successful applicant will be :
- 5+ yrs of experience at early-stage startups; experience in influencer marketing and brand partnerships.
- Excellent communication skills and negotiation skills and the ability to close deals.
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to hire and grow team members
- Very strong orientation towards meeting targets and looking at data-driven insights.
- Experience in influencer marketing and brand partnerships.
- Likes to connect and actively engage with key influencers and decision-makers inside an organization.
- Interested in working on the business side of a SaaS start-up and ready to dig into work and learn all aspects around it.
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What will you do?
- Identifying strategic partners by conducting market research to find the appropriate companies or domains to explore strategic alliances
- Build and execute a plan to elevate our partnerships and build a robust opportunity pipeline. Our partnerships involve collaborating on GTM, product, technology, and marketing
- Build sustainable, trusting relationships across the “Alliance partner”, and lead efforts to ensure the delivery of all technical resources into the sales campaigns of our partner.
- Build processes to grow our pipeline, innovate with GTM, market jointly with partners to customers and explore new avenues of growth
- Identifying the right opportunities, framing deal structures, negotiating, closing out of deals with a focus on business development, and sourcing deals.
- Scale impactful partnerships and build a cross-functional view of the organization across sales, marketing, product, and customer/partner success
You are:
An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of them. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.
- Immediate joiners will be preferred.
- 5-7 yrs in alliances, partnerships, sales, or similar experience.
- An MBA degree is a plus, not a must
- Exceptional communication skills- written, verbal
- Proven ability towards constructive networking.
- Team player and multitasker with exceptional organizational skills.
- Knowledge of the rewards/gift cards/perks industry is a plus
- Prior experience in selling or managing clients for SaaS products/Tech solutions and similar enterprise solutions
- Hands-on experience on account management CRMs like Salesforce, Zoho, HubSpot, and similar
- Ability to manage clients/partners independently with minimum supervision
Why should you work with us?
- We are growing exponentially growing from an on-paper idea to revenues in less than 12 weeks - have big plans for 2022 and are super excited to build a top-tier product in India, for the world
- Crazy ambitious mission: Have a founder mindset and lots of room to experiment, integrate and expand further. Have a figure-it-out mentality.
- Transparent, flexible benefits: We have a robust benefits framework; we evaluate candidates based on performance every six months and put our best foot forward on appraisals, with some flexibility between cash/crypto mutual fund/stock options.
- So much transparency: We try hard to do it in the right way. We strongly believe that we can be much more open and move faster when we have nothing to hide.
you will play a crucial role in the planning and execution in managing Ceo work. Your responsibilities will include handling inquiries, assisting with travel bookings, managing itineraries, and providing timely support to our clients before, during, and after their travels.
- manage a lively and constantly evolving calendar
- Keeping executive staff meeting minutes and agendas
- Act as gatekeeper, time advocate, and liaison creating efficiency and balance for your leaders’ schedule
- Coordinate internal and external meetings including but not limited to team meetings, off-site, one-on-ones, speaking engagements, and personal engagements
- Working closely with our CEO, helping drive cross-functional projects and associated timelines.
- Working with the executive team to facilitate the deliverables on key executive staff projects.
- Manage the tracking and progress of quarterly OKRs
- Offer coordination support for any candidate interviews as needed
- Book all domestic and international travel, taking into account costs, and proper documentation for any international travel using Navan or airlines directly (for both professional and personal travel)
- Handle multiple requests for the Executive’s time, utilizing strong judgment in prioritizing requests
- Format documents and presentations
- Run personal projects and errands for our CEO, as needed.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE
GormalOne LLP. Mumbai IN
GormalOne is a Agri tech enterprise with a vision to make farming highly profitable for the smallest farmer, thereby ensuring India's “Nutrition security”. Our mission is driven by use of advanced technology. Nitara, our Flagship product is an Artificial intelligence-led Dairy focused technology platform focused on data-driven dairying and fostering collaboration among Dairy stakeholders for informed decision making and improved outcomes through Digitization. We are looking for people, who are keen to use their skills to transform farmers lives. You will join a highly energised and competent team which working on advanced global technologies.
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Business Development Executive (BDE) to join our team in the Agri/Dairy industry. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in dairy product procurement, milk procurement, or dairy equipment marketing, along with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. This role requires flexibility to travel and work in various locations as needed.
RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Interact with existing and potential customers to build and maintain strong relationships.
- Arrange and conduct farmers' meetings at milk collection points, promoting and publicizing our products.
- Organize meetings with key clients and diligently follow up on discussions and agreements.
- Work closely with field execution teams to ensure smooth implementation of marketing and procurement strategies.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Mandatory: Experience in a dairy company, with a focus on dairy product procurement, milk procurement, or dairy equipment marketing.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Flexibility to travel and work in different locations as required.
- Long-term commitment to the role and the company.
- Qualification: Graduate or Dairy diploma with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
- Working knowledge of MS Office applications.
Desired Candidate Profile:
- Proven ability to interact and build relationships with farmers and clients.
- Strong organizational and planning skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Commitment to delivering high-quality results and meeting deadlines.
- Passion for the Agri/Dairy industry and a keen understanding of its dynamics.
Additional Requirements:
- Flexibility to travel frequently.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS
- Degree in Agribusiness Administration, Marketing or relevant field.
- Effective presentation skills.
- Minimum 3 years of experience working in the agriculture/ Dairy/ AgriTech market.
- Prior Business development experience in agri tech products will be given an advantage.
Kindly note: Salary shall be commensurate with qualifications and experience
Visit us at - https://gormalone.com/ & https://www.nitara.co.in/
We are looking for a Business Growth Manager for an innovative influencer oriented D2C shopping platform by a large retail group
- Leading team of Growth RMs for D2C brand partnerships
- Planning and overseeing new marketing initiatives with partners.
- Researching brands to find new opportunities for business
- Finding and developing new market opportunities and improving sales.
- Attending conferences, meetings, and industry events.
- Develop quotations and proposals for various clients.
- Training and development
Requirements
- Graduate / Post Graduate degree in business, marketing, or related field.
- The ideal candidate will have prior experience in Business Development dealing with brand partnerships
- Must be an organized multitasker, be able to handle diverse projects at once and meet tight deadlines. Start-up experience will be preferable.
- Strong communication skills and IT fluency.
Benefits
Company Description
Established in 2014, Facilius Inc. is a premier PR and media placement agency. It works directly with top tier media outlets such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Variety, US Weekly and many more premiere news outlets. They operate on a unique model unlike any PR agency where they place their clients in top-tier media on a guaranteed basis.
What will you get
You will get an opportunity to create, manage and enhance relationships with some of the best journalists and media outlets across the globe. You will be working closely with a global team to learn how to work closely with the biggest media outlets, strike partnerships, and offer value in exchange. You will get 10 times the amount of exposure compared to any other PR agency.
Role Description
Public Relations Specialist / Media Partnerships and Alliances Specialist
We are seeking a skilled and dynamic Public Relations Specialist / Media Partnerships and Alliances Specialist to join our public relations team.
This is a full-time role with the flexibility of working from home. The candidate will work according to U.S. hours Eastern Time (i.e. 6 PM to 3 AM IST)
The candidate will be responsible for identifying and reaching out to contributors / journalists and media outlets working across the globe in news /online media outlets, developing and maintaining relationships with them and collaborating with them.
Key Responsibilities
– Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with journalists and global media outlets
– Strike partnerships that help the company contribute stories on global media outlets
– Find business opportunities with media outlets that can benefit our company
– Find opportunities where the company can directly contribute towards news stories
– Find opportunities to build and expand the online profiles of key personnel
Requirements
– Strong written and verbal communication skills
– Self-starter by nature
– Diligent, persistent with strong follow -ups
– Strong organizational skills
– Savvy with MS Office and social media platforms.
– 3 to 4 years of experience in a communications role (preferably in the public relations industry either in-house or with an agency)
Compensation
– Basic in-hand salary range is INR 4.4 to 4.8 LPA
– This is an extremely vital role to the company and hence there is tremendous scope for growth and increment in this role and team
Qualifications
- Experience in consistently reaching out to external parties.
- Experience in creating and maintaining external relationships and develop partnerships
- Experience in the public relations industry is preferred.
- Ambitious, self-motivated, target-driven, and ability to work independently.
Job Location
Candidate has the flexibility to work from home or any location of their choice.
Timings: 6.00 pm to 3.00 am IST
Industry: Public Relations, Internet, Online Media
About The company:
NoBrokerHood started in the year 2018, aimed to make life more convenient and secure for residents in any
housing society. NoBrokerHood offers a plethora of services and features which enables its customer, as a user, to
manage multiple activities inside residential buildings, housing societies, and gated communities. From finding
domestic help to monitoring visitor entry and maintenance or utility bill payment, it’s all done from your phone. It
also further strengthens the safety of your society by keeping visual and digital records of all entries and exits –
accessible anytime and anywhere – and automates staff entry through a facial recognition or biometric process
About the role:
It is about generating sales and solving customer's problems with regards to marketing/advertising. You will work as
an extended marketing arm of the brands and all the actions strongly exhibit a Customer-First approach. The
primary role is to identify potential brands/companies, onboard new clients, and ensure the retention of the existing
ones. In the process of onboarding and retention, you are also exposed to campaign planning and execution based
on the client's brief.
• What makes this role interesting?
• Complete understanding of Sales
• Exposure to a variety of clients from different industries
• Get to work with the marketing team of various companies (small, mid, large)
Job Description
The role has 2 distinct areas of responsibility:
• Day to Day work
• Relationship Management
You Are Expected To
• Identify new brand/company basis trends, market knowledge, current advertisers
• Reach out and make connections with identified brand/company
• Understanding clients business, identifying their marketing problems, and collecting the marketing campaign
brief
• Plan the advertising campaign basis the brief and get a go-ahead from clients to execute the advertising
campaign
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure that the campaigns are performing/executed as per the commitment.
• Coordinate with clients for smooth flow of work and reporting of ongoing advertising campaigns
• Ensuring that the monthly/yearly revenues targets are being achieved
• Preparing Daily Task Reports
• The work hours are equally split between - answering emails/calls and campaign execution & campaign
planning
Relationship Management
• Forge strong business relationships with the clients
• Build a culture of high performance & innovation in the team
• Experience and skills required
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:
• Communication: Excellent communication skills in English.
• Agility: Ability to change according to business requirements.
• Motivation: Demonstrate a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude. Willing to roll up your sleeves and
get things done.
• Data-driven: Keen interest in analyzing performance data and transforming it into actionable strategies.
• Growth-driven: Keen to grow as an individual.
Benefits
• Performance Bonus
• Private Health Insurance
Our client is one of the most innovative and fast growing InsureTech platforms that offers contextual insurance in a blink.
We are a team of consumer obsessed & driven people. We want to reimagine insurance through a consumption lens for millions. We are a B2C and B2B2C platform that wants to simplify the way insurance is experienced with principles of transparency, trust and contextualization. The multiple ideas that we are building upon are all about an experience beyond the way insurance is understood or sold at present in India.
Roles & Responsibilities:
1. Stakeholder management:- Managing the existing partners on Ecosystem. With customers at the core, ensuring that the best propositions from the partners are being sourced & enhanced for the end users
2. Business Development:- Originating new partners on the Ecosystem while ensuring that commercials are sorted out
3. Strategize member enrolment programme and lead cross-functional teams to deliver on mutually agreed targets
4. Work alongside the Data team to build unique dashboards for internal reviews and channelise data towards the partners
5. Work with the Product team to co-build various capabilities on the platform
6. Work with the marketing team to design campaigns & attractive promotions for enrolments.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a similar role with Digital platforms or digital roles
- MBA from Top B schools
- Eye for a consumer's mindset
- Experience of working in digital first platforms or differentiated build-outs
- Data driven approach to decision making
- Ability to multitask and work on a diverse range of requirements.
Work Location: Hybrid - Mumbai
About the Ecosystem Platform:
We are building India's largest mobility ecosystem embedded with features that all vehicle owners are going to love & use frequently. This would be a digital-only platform covering entire India and empowering the complete range of vehicles. In the last 3 months while being in stealth mode, we have scaled this platform to over 160,000 vehicles which range from Maserati & Rolls Royce to Suzuki & Hyundai on 4-wheelers and Harley Davidson & KT to Hero & TVS. This platform represents India's largest pool of data w.r.t. vehicles and aspires to build a strong bond between various brands and their end users over our Mobility Ecosystem. On a daily basis, we are registering new members every day to enjoy the benefits currently offered.
Our plan is to scale this to over 10mn members in the next 24 months and empower this with various experiences in an end-to-end manner. This is a very exciting platform which could give an opportunity to complete imagination
A sneak peak into the opportunity:
- 7+ million active customer base in our company (Mostly acquired in last 6 months)
- Created community for 2 & 4 Wheeler vehicle owners (currently in the beta version and onboarded 120K+ users in no time)
- A rapidly growing team in tech + product with some of the finest folks in the industry - A rapidly growing team of Sales, Marketing, Tech and PMs
- An opportunity to build products that influence insurance awareness and buying at the grassroot level.
Regards
Team Merito