Business Development Executive - B2B Field sales | Gurgaon

About Company

Founded in 2019, apna is India’s largest professional networking and jobs platform for >250M members of India’s rising working class. Our mission is to connect people to opportunities and help reduce the skill and employment gap.

We help candidates build their digital professional identities, find the best fit hyperlocal jobs, grow their network and learn new skills to grow their careers. Employers can find the best talent and hire for over 70 different roles in < 48 hours.

Having raised $90+ million from marquee investors like Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, Rocketship.vc and Greenoaks Capital, Apna is on a mission to enable livelihoods for billions in India.

About the Team

The Growth team (SMB)at Apna owns user and revenue growth metrics across all business lines candidates and employers. The team has played a key role in Apna’s growth journey to become a clear market leader in the space within 18 months of product launch overtaking multiple incumbent players. This has been achieved by managing multiple short and long term levers, such as marketing, sales, search engine or appstore optimization, product changes and partnerships and tactically thinking through resource and capital allocation, cost-upside trade-offs and realization timelines across multiple initiatives. We are adding new members to the team to augment our existing capabilities and help chart Apna’s next phase of rapid business growth & product development.

Responsibilities:

· Visiting 8-10 clients a day to pitch them Apna’s hiring products

· Generate prospects and share with your manager all data pertaining to market

· Manage objection handling of customers with respect to product, competition, pricing & expectations.

· Selling recruitment solutions to SMB clients by assessing their business requirements.

· Manage onboarding of clients and them posting their first job on the platform

· Create references in the market and drive organic revenue

· Be a representative of the Apna brand and effectively pitch our value proposition to suitable and interested prospects

· Work on weekly / monthly targets and ensure adherence to short and long-term goals of the growth

· Create brand visibility of Apna in the market by handing out collaterals & building references

Its a mix of both business development and account management.

Requirements:

· 1+ years of work experience in client-facing B2B roles

· Skillsets: Hustler, Street Smart, Negotiation, Lead generation, Knocking

· Team player and a strong people person

· Strong preference for HRTech experience, or BFSI / Insurance hard cold selling experience.

· Bike & DL is a must since it is a traveling job