Mobiwiz - Sr Business Development Manager

Mobiwiz - Business Development Manager

Company:

Mobiwiz www.mobiwiz.in, promoted by alumni from IITs and IIMs, is developing an exciting solution that promises to deliver magic at the buyer’s fingertips and smile to their wallets. Yes, these are promising times for big box retailers and e-commerce, yet shopping at local stores is very much alive. Using the latest technologies, Mobiwiz aspires to make shopping at our neighborhood local stores even more convenient, personalized and fun!

Summary:

We are looking for a highly energetic and passionate individual to join as a Business Development Manager. If you fit the bill, then you must be someone who is not afraid to take calculated risks, has ability to build teams from the ground-zero, enjoys the power and flexibility that comes with working in startups, learns quickly from failures and maintains a positive attitude despite challenges.

- You must be having a pleasant and warm personality that can easily win the trust of potential customers. Every day may come with a new problem, so you must be thriving well in an ambiguous environment, and can make high quality decisions based on available or gathered information, and business acumen.

Location: Hyderabad

Responsibilities:

A host of activities that we think would help achieve the market launch goals are listed below, but as mentioned earlier, you will come on-board as a thinker/leader to create your own path to success. We are not looking for people who can just follow the instructions, but people who can lead.

- Acquire customers through various marketing approaches including calls, mailers, personal meetings, social networking

- Sell the benefits of using our solution to retailers owning small mom & pop stores.

- Plan resource need, hire and mentor a team of business development executives to achieve rapid and high market penetration in the target zones.

- Develop and retain positive relationships with high value clients

- Continuously analyze the available data and feedback to refine business development strategy.

- Ensure that strategy is executed well with rigor and honesty before calling for change.

Qualifications:

- Minimum 3-4 years of experience in handling a sales/marketing function in retail industry, preferably in lifestyle categories.

- Have innate or acquired business acumen to make high quality decisions where data is neither readily available nor cost-effective to obtain.

- Desirable to have worked in any lifestyle segments company before in sales or marketing roles

- Minimum graduate level education in business/commerce, but restriction can be over-looked if you come with a strong experience. MBA preferred.

- Desired to be educated in fashion technology and/or hospitality sectors.

- Must be strong in solving complex problem that involves multiple decision factors.

- You must have a track record of learning about new trends, technologies.

- Strong awareness of the retail industry, market trends and technologies

- Outgoing and friendly nature, and thick skinned to take on failures/rejections

- Very good listening skills with extreme patience to listen and understand others

- Be willing to travel within city premises upto 80% of times

- Flexibility to roll-up sleeves and willingness to help others going outside your comfort zone.

- Highly confident, humble and flexible in dealing with diverse audience.

- Capable of reasoning and debating strategy with other management team members.

Benefits:

- A job that you can call your own and wake upto with a zeal to accomplish something meaningful.

- A career that is in your hands to make or break, literally!

- Stock options after you have proved your mettle in six months of time frame with tangible results.

- Above market compensation, though we must warn that if that is all you want, you would be coming to a wrong place.

- High caliber colleagues that you will enjoy working with and hopefully make friends for life.