Sales Manager - Emerging Startups
Location
Delhi | India
Job description
- Develop Content Sales Pipeline: Primary responsibility will include cultivating a pipeline of prospects of early-stage startups through dedicated market research, competitor analysis, professional networking and monitoring industry trends
- Target Ownership: Generate revenue by selling concepts & products developed in-house for emerging and early stage startups in India. Achieve targets on a monthly and quarterly basis. Focus on consultative and iterative approach rather than push selling.
- Consultative content Sales Closure: Advance the pipeline of qualified leads and identify the integrated solutions to pitch to prospect early stage startups. Own the deal cycle and move clients towards closure within TATs.
Inbound Lead Management: Identify opportunities for inbound leads and act as SPOC for all inbound queries
Account Management and Relationship building:
- Market Landscape: Convert a deep understanding of the marketing landscape into commercially viable sales opportunities
- Account Management and Delivery: Take ownership of the post-sales project deliverables creating a pool of loyal accounts for sustained revenue contribution and Work with the internal teams (content, account management, marketing & others) to conceptualize and execute client deliverables
- Farming: Build relationships with client stakeholders and identify upsell and cross sell opportunities. Build case studies and testimonials from clients to assist in marketing efforts
Sales Strategy:
- Network: Look out for new partnerships & revenue streams through constant research & networking
Competitive Benchmark: Monitor competition and use market intelligence to develop strategies to maximize market share
- Pipeline Analysis: Evaluate current offerings and open feedback loops with Product/ delivery/ marketing teams on the back of data based decisions to build a profitable P&L for this vertical
Who We Are Looking For
- Experience: The ideal candidate will have experience with sales in the Internet advertising industry. Individuals with 2-4 years of B2B sales experience ideally in SaaS, media, agency landscape, wealth management, or consulting firms or involved in consultative selling experience. Content Selling experience is preferred,
- Pipeline Ownership: Have a proven track record of reaching and exceeding sales revenue goals via new business. Strong experience in data gathering, cleaning and managing a visibility of pipeline with little to no supervision
- Ability to work comfortably with ambiguity and grow in a fast-growing startup environment.
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing or equivalent.
Keen sense of timing, killer presentation skills, basic Excel, and the confidence to hold your ground and push back when necessary.
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, as well as written and verbal communication.
- Strong attention to detail with a data-driven approach to providing solutions.
- Deep-rooted self-confidence and motivation are highly desirable for this position.
- Tools: Well-versed with at least one CRM tool and data up keep
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