Business Development Executive

Job Description:

- Build and enhance relationships with key stakeholders (Professors, Head of Departments) of premier academic institutions (IISc, IITs and others)
- Levarage these relationships to sell offerings/services to key stakeholders (Professors, Chairpersons of centres/departments) in these institutions
- Responsible for new leads generation, systematic follow up and negotiations resulting in new clients addition or new offerings sales to existing customers
- Ability to identify the best option to connect and manage relationships with prospective customers using various modes of communication (In person meetings, phone call, email etc.)
- Be able to understand the decision making styles/aspects of prospective customers and position the offerings tactically to ensure closure of sales
- Discipline and focus to convert prospective customers to long-term customers in a time bound manner

Desirable Skills:

- MBA Marketing with an engineering/science background (preferably). 1-2 years of work experience would be a bonus.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal relationship management skills
- Exposure to working with/selling to academia and academic environment (preferable)
- Capable of managing the end to end sales process independently

Unique aspects of the job:

- We provide you a unique opportunity to directly connect, interact and build relationships with the best researchers, academics in the country
- You would be exposed to understand first hand, the key R&D projects and innovations taking place at premier Institutes of our country
- Free hand to develop and implement creative and innovative sales and marketing techniques to ensure sales closure
- Fixed pay + attractive bonus/incentives based on meeting/exceeding sales targets