Business Development Manager
Summary
Business Development Manager at an IT staffing consultancy in Bengaluru, driving new client/vendor acquisition, account upsell, and monthly sales targets while running CRM campaigns, data-driven sales operations, and sales-team training. 7-10 years of BD/CRM/sales-ops experience, ideally in staffing, required.
Role & responsibilities
* Developing and managing clients/vendors/partners for IT Staffing.
* Achieving monthly sales targets by identifying and developing new customers.
* Ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction as well as upsell and cross sell potential within existing customers to maximise share of wallet.
* Responsible for day-to-day Client/Vendor handling, maintaining a relationship with vendors, Mass mailing, Vendor Follow up, cold calling, Achieving and exceeding weekly and monthly KPIs.
* Building strong and collaborative relationships with other internal stakeholders.
* Monitoring market trends and providing regular competitor feedback.
* Creating and executing CRM campaigns that improve on boarding and engagement and reduce churn.
* Using data analytics to generate insights into customer segments for use within business development and other CRM initiatives.
* Ensuring the correctness of customer data and manage any data cleansing activities.
* Continually testing and refining campaigns to gain insight and maximise usage and uptake.
* Providing support on any requests or issues pertaining to CRM.
* Organising data and generating deep customer insights in order to enhance sales force productivity and effectiveness.
* Supporting the sales team key planning and operations tasks to support the overall objective of the business.
* Attainment planning through effective goal setting, designing sales incentives to drive business objectives and territory analysis & definition for sales maximum effectiveness. • Providing pricing and contract support by providing the sales team with high-quality and competitive proposals.
* Monitoring and analysing key sales and business performance indicators and trends to drive strategic and tactical business decisions and also coordinating and ensuring accuracy of sales forecasts.
* Ensuring Sales process adoption and compliance and also identifying opportunities for improvement in the sales process and systems to ensure greater sales effectiveness and efficiency.
* Identifying opportunities for new business development through following up on leads and conducting research on target clients.
* New business generation by meeting potential clients to understand needs and Staffing needs within minimal time.
* Managing the sales process to close new business opportunities.
* Building strong relationships with the existing portfolio and perform all Staffing functions needed to fill our clients open job requirements.
* Meeting and exceeding weekly and monthly activity and revenue targets.
* Delivering effective sales skills trainings to the sales teams.
* Coaching sales teams and helping them in applying training content to real life situations. Ideal Candidate
Preferred candidate profile :
* You have at least 7+ year experience within a Business Development, CRM Manager or Sales Operations / Support role, ideally within the Staffing Industry.
• You have prior experience in dealing with Key Accounts.
* You possess expertise in Direct Sales.
• Experience within Sales Training and Multi-country Sales would be a strong advantage.
* Experience covering IT, Healthcare and Professional Services is strong plus.
* You have experience in a regional role ideally including experience covering the domestic (India/APAC) market spectrum.
* You possess excellent interpersonal as well as written and verbal communication skills.
* You are highly goal driven and work well in fast paced environments
* You are a strong networker & relationship builder
* You enjoy finding creative solutions to problems.
