Souled Store - General Manager - Business Development

About Us :

The Souled Store is a youth lifestyle brand started in 2013. Over the last 7 years, we have carved a niche in the pop culture and licensed merchandise space. With properties like Disney, Warner Brothers, WWE, Viacom, Cartoon Network, and more, The Souled Store has grown to become India's biggest brand for licensed merchandise.

We're building India's most loved casual wear brand!

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Know more about us www.thesouledstore.com

Position Summary :

We are looking for an astute Business Development Manager who demonstrates great interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively across teams while operating successfully in a lean, fast-paced organisation, and to create a vision and organisation that can scale quickly.

Job Location :

Lower Parel, Mumbai

What - The Souled Store- Can Offer You :

1. Opportunity to build and develop processes and systems to handle scale

2. Work with a team with people from creative, diverse backgrounds & skill sets and be a part of our dynamic growth story.

3. Opportunity to be part of a fun, fast-growing startup with constant challenges

Responsibilities :

- As a General Manager BD, you would lead a team of Business Development Associates to identify customers' growth opportunities and challenges, and turn that into the pipeline for sales

- The incumbent will be responsible for forecasting and product placement planning & strategizing to come up with new offerings to increase revenue

- He/she needs to be more driven to secure new top line sales and build strategies to support a profitable business plan for the brand.

- Responsible for sourcing and liaisoning for new licensees and alliances.

- Maintaining good relationship with clients, be actively involved in Network Expansion, Mapping Competition & providing management with client/market feedback

- Be the custodian of managing promotional activities through social media and collaborating with brands and bloggers, while monitoring the results of the ongoing marketing campaigns by collaborating with the marketing team.

- Maintain knowledge on all products and services of website and recommend new products to website and recommend enhancements if required and coordinate with various cross functional team to analyse product requirement.

- Actively involved in learning about the brand history/understanding the brand ethics and know-how of the products

Competencies and Abilities :

- A - roll up your sleeves and get it done- leadership style, action-oriented with a - go-getter- attitude

- Proven negotiation skills & a pro-active problem solver to come up with pragmatic solutions with respect to the task at hand

- Passion to partner with an evolving brand and be personally vested in its growth

Experience :

- 8+ years of overall experience in a Business Development role & good with managing stakeholders, preferably for an Apparel/Fashion brand in the Ecommerce space.

- Someone who is a pop culture enthusiast, has interest in fandom & ever-evolving fashion trends and consumer-driven who understands people's buying patterns and trends