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Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Pune

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Business Development Manager with 5+ years of experience in IT product, tool, or SaaS sales and B2B business development. The ideal candidate should have a strong track record in client acquisition, solution selling, lead generation, and building relationships with enterprise customers.

The role focuses on driving business growth by identifying new opportunities, developing client relationships, promoting IT products and technology solutions, and converting qualified leads into business.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute business development strategies for IT products, tools, SaaS, and technology solutions.
• Identify and generate new B2B and enterprise leads through multiple channels.
• Drive new client acquisition and build long-term business relationships.
• Understand client requirements and recommend suitable IT products and solutions.
• Lead consultative and solution-based sales discussions with prospective clients.
• Manage the complete sales cycle, from lead generation and prospecting to negotiation and deal closure.
• Prepare and deliver client presentations, product demonstrations, proposals, and commercial discussions.
• Collaborate with internal IT and product teams to understand offerings and communicate their business value.
• Research market trends, competitors, and potential business opportunities.
• Develop account plans and growth strategies for new and existing customers.
• Maintain a healthy sales pipeline and track lead status, conversions, and revenue opportunities.
• Participate in client meetings, industry events, and networking activities.
• Achieve defined lead-generation, client-acquisition, and revenue targets.
• Maintain consistent follow-ups with prospects to improve conversion rates.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in IT product/tool/SaaS sales, technology sales, or B2B business development.
• Strong hands-on experience in new client acquisition and business development.
• Proven expertise in solution selling and consultative selling.
• Strong lead-generation, prospecting, and sales pipeline management skills.
• Experience handling enterprise and corporate clients.
• Good understanding of IT products, software solutions, SaaS, or technology services.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.
• Ability to independently manage the complete sales cycle and achieve business targets.
• Strong commercial acumen, a proactive mindset, and a results-oriented approach.

Overview:

We are looking for a Principal Architect for a Private Equity backed, fast growing AI First Product Engineering Services firm.

This role will be a key member of the core leadership team of the firm.

He/ She will serve as a strategic technical leader, solution designer, and customer advisor. In this role, you will combine deep and broad-based technical expertise with strong business acumen to architect high-value solutions, lead pre-sales engagements, and mentor our practice/CoE team. You will work closely with customers to understand their business needs, translate them into scalable technical solutions, and guide delivery teams in successful implementation.

Responsibilities:

1. Solutioning & Pre-Sales

●     Engage with customers, understand their business context, and guide them through a discovery and design process leading to a proposed solution

●     Work with sales teams to develop winning proposals, RFP responses, and technical presentations.

●     Will need to take single point ownership of the pre sales process, including client interactions, proposal preparation, presentations, pricing etc

●     Drive proof-of-concepts as part of the pre sales process

●     Build frameworks for different kinds of proposals and presentations to bring in repeatability and efficiency in the process

●     Work closely with marketing to create content around Indexnine offerings, solutions, capabilities and case studies

2. Delivery

●     Provide technical oversight during project delivery, ensuring adherence to architectural principles, standards, and best practices and ensure the as-sold solution is realised

●     Act as a trusted advisor to senior customer stakeholders (CXO level and technical leads). Will need to engage with Customers through delivery as required

●     Create points of view on accounts to help mine and grow accounts.

3. Practice & CoE Development

●     Work closely with the labs. Contribute to the development of new products/ accelerators.

●     Mentor and coach engineers to enhance their technical and customer engagement skills.

4. Thought leadership

●     Keep abreast of technology and produce points of view for Indexnine’s offerings and technical capabilities

●     Represent the company at industry forums, webinars, and client workshops.

●     Be able to independently conduct discovery and solutioning workshops with Customers

Skills/Qualifications:

●     15+ years of overall experience with a blend of architecting, pre sales and technical delivery

●     Should be leading a pre-sales unit in a services organization. Hands-on with designing solutions, proposal writing, estimation, pricing and customer presentations.

●     Broad based technical expertise and having played a Sr Architect role for at least 2 years

●     Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.

●     Experience working in an IT services environment in the Product Engineering space (i.e designing and building bespoke products/solutions)

●     BE/ Masters degree

• Play an integral role in new business pitches and hold responsibility for the effective on-boarding of new clients and operate as the lead point of contact for any and all matters specific to your customers
• Develop a trusted advisory relationship with key accounts, customer stakeholders and executive sponsors
• Provide strategic pre sales support for sales activities including needs analysis, data review, product demonstrations and other general sales support
• Mine the existing accounts for new business possibilities and utilizing available resources to drive account retention and growth
• Proactively assess, clarify, and validate customer needs on an ongoing basis and document as SOW
• Work cross-functionally with business development, marketing, product, technology and finance teams to ensure the timely and successful delivery of the solutions per to customer needs 
• Analyze latest marketing trends using CRM and analytics tools and tracking industry activities and providing valuable inputs for fine-tuning marketing strategies.

• Develop a growth strategy focused both on financial gain and customer satisfaction
• Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs
• Arrange business meetings with prospective clients
• Promote the company’s products/services addressing or predicting clients’ objectives
• Prepare sales contracts ensuring adherence to law-established rules and guidelines
• Keep records of sales, revenue, invoices etc.
• Provide trustworthy feedback and after-sales support
• Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers
• Develop entry level staff into valuable salespeople 

• Proven working experience as a business development manager, sales executive or a relevant role
• Proven sales track record
• Experience in customer support is a plus
• Proficiency in MS Office
• Proficiency in English
• Market knowledge
• Communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to build rapport
• Time management and planning skills

Section A: Purpose of the Role:

To engage with CXOs across the world’s most successful companies and successfully sell new business opportunities to ensure MnM’s growth.

Section B: Job Description

B.1 Responsibilities:

• Generate sales revenue in line with the MnM’s objectives and goals
• Ensure strong focus is to hunt and sell to net new logos / net new client accounts within defined timelines
• Identify key decision makers and act as a strategic partner to C-level and senior executives within an assigned organization to drive revenues

to understand their issues/needs/priorities through a consultative selling approach

• Collaborate with internal resources (such as Research, Client Services) and external network to prioritize and penetrate key accounts; quickly build relationships with key stakeholders to drive revenues
• Leverage CRM as a tool to capture accurate sales pipeline management, develop strategic territory mapping and maintain forecast
• Manage sales forecast accuracy on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis and ensure that sales pipeline remains full of qualified leads & prospects
• Own the full sales cycle from prospecting through close and own the overall allocated sales quota
• Follow determined Sales best practices developed through collaboration with peers or delivered by Sales Learning and Development team.
• Maintain compliance in utilizing internal sales enablement tools and management processes
• Attend and participate actively on all internal team meetings. 

B.2 Communication  

• Internal Stakeholders: Internal teams such as Research, Sales, Web Marketing, Finance and Accounts, Events and Conferences, Human Resources
• External Stakeholders: Clients, Industry Experts, Government Agencies, Academia

Section C: Job Specifications

C.1 Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to engage with CXO, business leaders and build credibility and relationships
• Strong business development skills, telesales, outbound calling, communication and negotiation skills whenever required.
• Highly motivated individual with a passion for sales and an unyielding drive to succeed in an international selling environment
• Ability to comprehend and problem solve by thinking and acting quickly on your feet.

• Cultural Sensitivity in engaging with global clients

• Entrepreneurially minded individual with positive mindset capable of converting adversity into opportunity

C.2 Education:

• Essential: Bachelor’s degree
• Desirable: Master’s in Business Administration (MBA)

C.3 Prior Experience:

• 3+ years’ experience in product/solution/enterprise sales

• A consistent track record of overachievement in sales targets