To be successful in this role you will have superior communication, presentation and organizational skills. Operating in a fast-moving and sometimes ambiguous environment you will work autonomously taking full control and responsibility for hitting business objectives. This role provides opportunities to develop original ideas, approaches, and solutions in a competitive and ever changing business climate.
Specific responsibilities include the following :
- Understand Company's Services products and services and be able to articulate its functions and benefits to external audiences.
- Help define the seller base and industry verticals we target and influence a sales plan that is in line with our global seller business direction.
- Build and manage a team of Business Development Managers and sales specialists to drive towards goals.
- Work across key internal stakeholders both domestic and global, to set priorities and develop account targets that underpin global category strategy and knowledge of the local market.
- Track and report performance using appropriate metrics. Achieve productivity and seller satisfaction targets
- Engage with internal and external customers/teams to improve products and business processes.
- Identify specific prospects/partners to approach, communicate the specific value proposition for their business and use case, and establish long-term, successful partnerships.
- Conceptualize and implement successful sales, account management processes in close coordination with domestic and global teams
- Work closely with senior executives at interested sellers to successfully negotiate deals and on-board and launch them on the platform
- Review and monitor performance and sales of key partners to manage their performance.
Location :
This position is based out of Bangalore and will require extensive travel.
Basic Qualifications :
- Deep understanding of and passion for e-commerce required.
- Experience in a highly analytical, results-oriented environment with external customer interaction required.
- Proven analytical skills and demonstrated ability to manage the business by the numbers
- Must be metrics-driven.
- Experience in managing a high performing sales team a must
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills and the ability to express thoughts logically and succinctly.
- Demonstrated active listening skills, highly consultative and solutions-oriented.
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA is preferred
- At least 7 years of sales management experience
Preferred Qualifications :
- Experience with e-commerce, cross-border sales/retail would be an advantage
- Previous responsibility for strategic business development, revenue targets and quotas is highly desirable.
- Prior experience influencing C-level executives highly desirable
- Deep understanding of the retail, export and manufacturing landscape in India with prior interactions with exporters and manufacturers is desirable.
- Experience selling nascent (embryonic/start-up) products/services into new markets is desirable.
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