Business Development Executive

Required - Sales Head - Solar PV Industry

Location: SURAT, Gujarat, India

Industry- solar PV Module

4-6 years of experience, must be experienced in the solar PV Module industry only."

Job Description:

We are currently seeking a highly motivated and experienced Sales Head to lead our sales team in the solar PV industry. As the Sales Head, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of our sales operations, driving revenue growth, and expanding market presence. This role requires a strategic thinker with a proven track record of success in sales leadership and a deep understanding of the solar energy sector.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Develop and implement comprehensive sales strategies to achieve company objectives and revenue targets in the solar PV industry.
2. Lead, mentor, and motivate a team of sales professionals, providing guidance, support, and training to maximize their potential and performance.
3. Establish sales objectives, quotas, and KPIs in alignment with organizational goals, and monitor team progress towards meeting and exceeding targets.
4. Identify new business opportunities and market segments for expansion, leveraging industry trends, customer insights, and competitive intelligence.
5. Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients, partners, and stakeholders, representing the company as a trusted advisor and solution provider.
6. Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, product development, and operations teams to drive product innovation, enhance customer value propositions, and optimize sales processes.
7. Stay abreast of industry developments, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies, providing strategic insights and recommendations to senior management.
8. Prepare and present regular sales reports, forecasts, and performance analyses to executive leadership, highlighting achievements, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
9. Lead by example through active participation in sales activities, customer meetings, and industry events, fostering a culture of excellence, integrity, and continuous improvement within the sales organization.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field.
2. 4-5 years of progressive experience in sales leadership roles, preferably in the solar PV industry or renewable energy sector.
3. Demonstrated success in developing and executing strategic sales plans, driving revenue growth, and achieving business objectives.
4. Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and empower individuals to excel in a fast-paced and competitive environment.
5. Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with a customer-centric approach and a focus on building long-term relationships.
6. Proven analytical abilities, with the capacity to analyze market data, identify trends, and develop actionable insights to inform decision-making.
7. Proficiency in CRM software, sales analytics tools, and Microsoft Office suite for sales tracking, reporting, and forecasting purposes.
8. Willingness to travel as needed to meet with clients, attend industry conferences, and visit regional offices.

As an account executive at Prompts Daily, you will be at the forefront of our sponsorship sales efforts. Here are our core values. Your responsibilities will include:

• Email communication: Build rapport with our current clients and create sponsorship packages for them in our newsletter. Here’s our sponsorship page.
• Prospecting New Sponsors: Identify and engage potential sponsors for our newsletter through various channels, inbound, and outbound (cold outreach, warm intros etc.)
• Closing and Processing Sponsors: Take charge of the entire sales cycle - from prospecting potential sponsors to closing deals and facilitating the processing of sponsorships, ensuring a seamless collaboration with sponsors.
• Content Collaboration: Collaborate with the content team to integrate sponsorships seamlessly, ensuring a win-win for both sponsors and our audience.
• Sales Strategy Development: Develop and refine sales strategies based on market trends and feedback, continuously improving our sales approach.

Qualifications

• Experience in Ad Sales: Preferably 2+ years of experience in ad sales, preferably in the newsletter or media industry. Bonus points if you've closed $1M+ deals before (combined) and ideally $50k+ deals (singular). Not required!
• Proactive Approach: A proactive approach to identifying and pursuing potential sponsors, with a knack for opening doors and establishing relationships.
• Excellent Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present sponsorship packages compellingly.
• Team Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative environments, partnering with cross-functional teams to achieve business goals.
• Tech Stack: familiarity with CRMs, Airtable, Superhuman (for email and follow ups)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Business Development Manager working under the FMCG segment, an ideal candidate must perform the following responsibilities:

·       Approaching potential leads and close them within a stipulated time frame.

·       Create exclusive distributors, exclusive Super Stockiest and business associates for the company.

·       Look after the entire business activities of the exclusive distributors, super stockiest and business associates.

·       Keep abreast with stock reports, inventory, product order, re-order etc.

·       Guide and coordinate the sales team working under his jurisdiction.

·       Training personnel and helping team members in developing their skills.

·       Make strategic marketing plans/ beat plans to achieve the business targets.

·       Perform other sales, marketing or promotion related activities towards the growth of the company as when instructed by the company.

·       Finding and developing new markets and improving sales.

REQUIREMENTS:

·       Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing or related field.

·       Experience in sales, marketing or related field.

·       Strong communication skills.

·       Ability to manage complex projects and multi-task.

·       Excellent organizational skills.

·       Ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive and handle uncertainty.

·       Proficient in MS office.

Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products, and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets.

Seek out the appropriate contact in an organization.

Generate leads and cold-call prospective customers.

Meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone.

Foster and develop relationships with customers/clients.

Understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these.

Think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives to develop and improve the business.

Work strategically - carrying out necessary planning to implement operational changes.

Have a good understanding of the business’s products or services and be able to advise others about them.

Ensure staff are on board throughout the organization, and understand the need for change and what is required of them.

Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department.

Liaise with the finance team, warehousing, and logistics departments as appropriate.

Seek ways of improving the way the business operates.

Attend seminars, conferences, and events where appropriate.

Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.

Relinns is a dynamic and innovative IT company committed to delivering exceptional value and service to our clients. We are seeking an experienced and customer-focused Customer Success Manager to join our team and drive both customer success and sales growth. As a Customer Success Manager with a sales-focused approach at Relinns, you will play a pivotal role in building strong, lasting relationships with our valued clients. Your responsibilities will encompass ensuring our clients achieve their desired outcomes, maximizing the value of our products/services, and seamlessly integrating sales strategies to contribute to revenue growth.

What You Need for this Position

• Education: Requires a Bachelor's degree or higher in any field.
• Proficiency: Skilled in using Google Platform Communication and Convincing: Strong communication and convincing skills, coupled with a determined attitude. Business Acumen:
• Possesses effective presentation, negotiation skills, and good business sense. Independence and Drive: Demonstrates self-motivation, independence, and a performance-driven approach.

What You Will Be Doing

• Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned clients, understanding their unique needs, goals, and challenges.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of sales processes and contribute insights to improve customer journey alignment.
• Develop and execute tailored customer success plans to ensure the successful adoption and utilization of our products/services.
• Proactively engage with clients to understand their business objectives and align our solutions to help them achieve those objectives.
• Utilize CRMs, email marketing tools, and ChatGPT to enhance customer engagement, communication, and retention efforts.
• Conduct regular business reviews with clients to track progress, address concerns, and identify opportunities for growth.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including Sales, Product, and Support, to advocate for the client's needs and drive solutions that meet their requirements. Provide training and support to clients, ensuring they have a comprehensive understanding of our offerings and how to leverage them effectively.
• Monitor and analyze customer usage patterns and provide data-driven insights to guide clients in optimizing their experience and outcomes.
• Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities based on the client's evolving needs and our product/service offerings. Handle client escalations and resolve issues promptly while maintaining a positive client relationship.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in customer success to continuously enhance our approach and strategies. 

About us 

GRG India is a leading provider of end-to-end loyalty management services in India. We help large and mid-size companies acquire, engage, retain and influence their customers, employees and channel partners. Our clients include some of India’s top brands across BFSI, FMCG, Construction, IT, Agro Chemicals, and Automotive industries. 

Following are examples of what we do: 

• Design a mechanic loyalty program for a large auto ancillary company, wherein the mechanic gets incentivized every time he influences the vehicle owner to buy original OEM spare parts 
• Send promotional offers to customers of large banks to make them use specific banking channels (e.g. Net Banking, Mobile App etc.) or products (e.g. Remittance, Loans etc.) 
• Acquire and grow the customer base of a large MNC agro chemical company by using farmer referral programs and instant gratification rewards.
• Engage HNI customers of a large real estate company with high-end exclusive benefits, privileges, and rewards 
• Assist one of India’s top credit card issuing company to reduce employee attrition and increase sales across multiple sourcing channels 

With a reputation that’s been built over a decade of providing successful loyalty management solutions, we’re now embarking upon a journey of creating highly modular, scalable, and mostly standardized products.  

We have recently launched a SasS product  Lets Buzzz, an employee engagement platform that helps drive performance and innovation at the workplace. It is a comprehensive product designed to empower business. from accelerating employee engagement to helping appreciate good work and motivating employees to deliver on business objectives.  

If making a difference to the working culture across companies sounds exciting, then this is the job for you. 

We expect you  to play a critical role in developing the sales strategy. You will be responsible for all Sales Activity, more specifically, identifying, developing and closing new opportunities. In addition to having a successful track record in business acquisition working with middle and senior level management, you will also demonstrate a proactive approach to building new relationships. Essential that you are a focused performer who is in the habit of beating Sales targets.

Reports to 

AVP - Product Sales  

3 best things about the job 

1. Work in a rapidly evolving industry where scalable tech products have a huge impact 
2. Have complete ownership of product sales  
3. Potential for the role to evolve into a business leadership role 

Measures of success 

• Building and implementing a successful Sales Strategy. 
• Healthy pipeline of clients and prospective business opportunities. 
• Over achieving sales targets assigned. 
• Win long term business deals. 

Responsibilities of the role 

• To constantly keep oneself updated with key trends in the market.  
• Establish key relationships with corporate clients and agencies to ensure maximum exposure and increase revenue. Networking within assigned client organizations to understand organizational structures and prospective business needs and sale opportunities. 
• Devise strategies and execute tactics to pitch and secure new business.  

• Liaise with the rest of the team on a day to day basis to obtain all new sales leads and proactiveness in putting forward suggested actions to achieve sales targets 
• Responsible for reporting as per business requirements. Assessing assigned client contractual situations to ensure the best possible agreement structure is in place to lock in clients 

What you will need  

• You are self-motivated and have high levels of energy about what you do and the products you are presenting.  
• A great balance of business and commercial acumen along with understanding of technology and SaaS products 
• A strong bias for using relevant analytical tools and taking data-driven decisions 
• Ability to work with multiple internal and external stakeholders 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

• Work with clients and end-users to gather, understand, and define business requirements
• Should have Experienced in a Salesforce implementation through the full Software Development Lifecycle
• Develop user stories and to-be process flows to support the design and development of Salesforce solutions for our clients
• Work collaboratively with team members to design a solution that will meet a client's business requirements and fulfill user stories.
• Collaborate with developers to test and verify that solutions will meet the business requirements
• Participate in key meetings with clients and should have prior experience of working with them on-site including requirement sessions, system demos, user acceptance testing, and end-user training.
• Salesforce Admin Certification and one Consulting Cloud Certification (Sales, Service, or Community.
• In this role, the analyst is expected to have exemplary communication and documentation skills.
• Constructs forecasts, recommendations, and document Business Related Document based on business data and Salesforce knowledge