Properji - Sales Manager

Role: Sales Manager, Properji

Location: Bangalore, India

Opportunity to work at a Silicon Valley, California funded startup focusing on the real estate sector in India. Real estate contributes about 5 per cent to India's gross domestic product (GDP) and is the second largest employer after agriculture. The total revenue generated in 2010-11 stood at US$ 66.8 billion. Yet, it is a highly fragmented industry with severe lack of trust and accountability. This startup attempts to inject trust, transparency and professionalism in India's rapidly growing real estate sector.

About Properji

Properji helps first-time home buyers make sound property investments. In addition, it also provides research and advisory services to help make decisions relating to where to buy, when to sell and how to optimize on taxes.

It addresses the needs of upwardly mobile, technologically savvy professionals. The market for such a service is huge. In Bangalore alone, the average annual addition in IT/ITeS workforce for the past 2 years has been over 100,000. In just one year in 2011, there were 44,000 new residential units launched in Bangalore. Properji.com is a platform where professionals come for their real estate needs.

Properji was founded by enthusiastic professionals from IIM, IIT and Ivy League. With a rich experience in customer orientation and wide range of experience in Real Estate, IT Consulting, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Non-Profit, Marketing and Consulting in the Big4, we are promoting an entirely new way of making property decisions. This multi-talented team also boasts of adventure enthusiasts who have interests in skydiving, bungee jumping, river rafting, nature enthusiasts, people who can speak 7 languages and also a good proficiency in Spanish and French.

Properji is funded by and is part of Invact (www.invact.com), which is an US based incubator of startups with focus on real estate, education, e-commerce and other service sectors in India. The company is run like a Silicon Valley Bay Area technology start-up combining creativity, ideation and invention with execution and action in the market to come up with radically new and different solutions that will delight the customers.

Role Overview

This candidate will co-ordinate and help with on-ground sales activities. Key responsibilities include building relationships with builders and developers, collecting and analyzing data on under-construction and ready-to-move-in properties, interacting with customers, co-ordinating site visits and ensuring conversion of customer leads.

This role is likely to interest those who like being on the field and prefer to have an upside based on sales targets achieved.

Qualifications:

1. Education: MBA preferred, but not necessary

2. Experience: 2 to 6 years in sales role in companies such as 99Acres, MagicBricks, PropTiger or with a reputed professional real estate broker or a builder / developer

3. Understanding and/or experience in Real Estate buying and selling

4. “Can do” attitude and comfort with working in fast paced, unstructured start-up environment

5. High degree of flexibility and adaptability to evolve one’s role based on changing organizational needs

Please clearly indicate the role you are applying for, current/past employer name and academic institution name in the subject line and mention it in the cover letter

If you are seriously interested, please also send a cover letter describing what attracts you to this opportunity and why you are fit for this role.

Please note:

- Please apply only if you meet all of the above qualifications. Apply early for better chances of shortlisting

- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please do not follow-up. We read all of our emails and carefully review each candidate