Senior Manager - Business Development Jobs In Flipkart

 

About Flipkart

Flipkart is India’s largest e-commerce marketplace with a registered customer base of over 150 million. In the 10 years since we started, Flipkart has come to offer over 100 million products across 120+ categories including Smartphones, Books, Media, Consumer Electronics, Furniture, Fashion and Lifestyle.

Launched in October 2007, Flipkart is known for its path-breaking services like Cash-onDelivery, No-Cost-EMI and 10-day replacement policy. Flipkart was the pioneer in offering services like In-a-Day Guarantee (65 cities) and Same-Day-Guarantee (13 cities) at scale. With over 1,20,000 registered sellers, Flipkart has redefined the way brands and MSME’s do business online.

Job Description:

In this role the person would be handling a Business Development team of 5-6 managers and a team of 30-35 business development executives.  The incumbent will be responsible for acquiring new sellers and growing them through his/ her team. This is a field sales role and the team leaders as well his/her entire Org is expected to be on  the field/road acquiring sellers. The candidate would be responsible to drive an on-ground team  and/ or support partners to  facilitate new seller & selection acquisition process like imaging/cataloguing/training/business improvement etc. The  team would be placed in different cities to acquire sellers, make them go live and grow them. The candidate should be comfortable working in a fast paced, ambiguous environment. 

The candidate will be expected to handle and lead PAN India/multi region projects to impact and/or enable critical market place metrics on selection, speed or growth.

Job Description: 

∙ Background in field sales is mandatory – individual will have to be the kind who enjoys being on the field and convincing sellers to go online on Flipkart 

∙ The role would require travel in the candidate’s region to work with his team and support them in closing large  sellers who can bring significant selection on Flipkart. 

∙ In order to be successful the candidate should develop a thorough knowledge of relevant Flipkart processes and  support team in selection growth – his team will look upto him to solve operational and process related problems  to convince sellers to go online 

∙ Develop and plan for bringing in the required selection and execute with urgency to add to sales 

∙ Give seller and internal teams like category, selection product and ops, onboarding, marketing etc. competitive  inputs from time to time for improving internal processes and benchmarks 

∙ Will be accountable for new sellers added/day – will be a strictly sales oriented role wherein the candidate has to  keep thinking about how he/she will achieve the daily sales number and bring the desired products live on FK  platform 

∙ Candidate should be very comfortable with a target driven environment with daily reporting, calls etc. Desired skills and experience: 

∙ Overall 6-8 years of experience in sales, preferable field sales like E-com, FMCG and Telecom 

∙ Post Graduate is mandatory 

∙ Should be hands-on, comfortable with data and be able to motivate the team to achieve targets 

∙ Ability to manage operations involving external partner teams with good communication skills

∙ Program management skills, relationship management, interpersonal communication - ability to work with  multiple cross-functional teams with an eye for detail 

∙ Ability to multi-task and work independently and as a team 

∙ Basic proficiency in MS applications e.g. Microsoft Word / Excel / Power point 

Soft Skills: 

∙ High energy 

∙ Persevering with a never give-up attitude 

∙ Target focused

Open Positions:

1

Skills Required:

Business development, Team management, Analytical skills, Excellent Communication skills (written and oral), Project Management

Location:

Mumbai,Maharashtra

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