Business Development Associate - Online Startup

Business Development Associate - start up firm LYNK

We have an opening for our client 'Lynk' for a ' Business Development Associate' role.

Here are the details below. Let us know if you'd like to try this out.

Company : Lynk

About The Company:

Fact 1 : Despite being a mega economy, we lack any organized players in the intra-city movement of goods

Fact 2 : Intra-city logistics is plagued with inefficiencies = higher costs, longer lead times, lack of visibility

Fact 3 : The current state of intra-city logistics will undoubtedly be a huge bottleneck in India's growth story

Fact 4 : We, at Lynk, are going to solve India's last mile problem, armed with technology as a disruptor

Lynk has a bold vision to fundamentally change the way goods are transported within Indian cities. Brining organization and a technology product to such a disorganized sector is a hard problem. But we at Lynk are here to tackle the harder problems - ones that can create real, substantial value. Challenging the status quo and solving problems that previously couldn't be solved is what keeps us up at night.

Lynk is currently building their early core team across product and business operations that will lead and guide their expansion in Chennai and the rest of India. This space in India has seen upwards of Rs. 150 crores in venture funding in just the past 6 months!

Headcount of Company : 5

Inception : July 2015

Headquarter : Chennai

Location : Chennai

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Funding : Seed funded and backed by the USD $1B Ramco Group, a diversified Indian conglomerate (read: swift access to capital and domain knowledge as needed to scale the business)

Management :

Founders: Shekhar Bhende and Abinav Raja met at Northwestern University in Chicago and have always had a resolute vision to return to India to build a highly successful and impactful business. As engineers, both founders bring strong analytical skills combined with strategic business thinking given their past experience in top tier investment banking and strategy consulting firms. Between them, they have diverse exposure having lived/worked/studied in multiple countries, and experienced a variety of industries.

Investors : The $1B Ramco group is a diversified Indian conglomerate with companies spanning cement, building materials, and enterprise software products. The Group brings highly relevant and specialized domain expertise in logistics, technology (product) and finance. Lynk is being actively advised by the Group Vice Chairman and the Group CFO.

Job Description :

A good Fit :

We are looking for street-smart individuals who can become evangelists for our product and fuel our rapid growth. This role acts as the foundation in helping Lynk achieves its objective of empowering businesses and individuals to redefine how they transport goods within Indian cities.

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Responsible for actively building up Lynk's supply and demand network by signing up driver partners and SME's on to the Lynk platform. This includes online and offline research to create and target top customers.

- Clearly communicate the value proposition and benefits to partners while contributing to the sales strategy, sales pitch, and CRM strategy

- Bringing collective market insights and competitive intelligence to senior leadership to help shape overall business strategy

- Actively generate, maintain and follow-up on leads/references

- Create and achieve sales-oriented metrics on a regular basis.

- Achieve turnover & profit targets, and have a keen focus on achieving the supply & demand target.

- Compile and analyse sales figures and report progress directly to senior management.

What we're looking for :

- Highly motivated hustler you bring high energy to the team,you're comfortable with spending significant time out in the field, and willing to do whatever it takes to achieve rapid Lynk growth in a city

- Analytical and inherently curious .You naturally have a habit of questioning the status quo, you strive to understand what makes our customers tick and can swiftly adapt your strategies on the fly

- People's person. You're an outright extrovert and a natural charmer. Setting up meetings, building relationships and trust, making cold calls, inspiring our stakeholders that's your jam.

- You're passionate about technology and the impact it could have on all of us

- You're disciplined, target oriented and have a work stamina that is unmatched; given our bold ambitions, this is not a role for comfort seekers

- Ideally have experience of 2 years in sales, business development or related roles

Deepika