Business Development Manager

About Apna

Since 2019, apna has connected over 60 million jobseekers with more than 250,000 enterprises and small businesses across India. Founded by Nirmit Parikh, a Stanford graduate and serial entrepreneur who recognized the challenges in entry-level hiring, apna has rapidly grown to become India's fastest unicorn in 2021 achieving this milestone in just 21 months.

Backed by Marquee global investors - Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, and GSV, we're revolutionizing livelihood creation across India.

Description

The Growth and Business team 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.

About the Team

The FOS team is a critical piece of Apna’s growth story so far. 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 the

funnel of SMB leads in the market, targeting the right clients, & ensuring their timely

onboarding. We are adding new members to the team to augment our existing capabilities and

help chart Apna’s next phase of rapid growth.

About the Role

We are looking for a Team Manager to supervise the team for acquiring SMB customers, driving

the cold calling of clients, and closing long-term deals on the ground.

Responsibilities

1. Conducting hurdle every day with all team members on a designated place

2. Assigning locations to each team member for the day to start working.

3. Ensuring every team member updates each meeting on a real time basis in CRM.

4. Ensuring Day end reporting with detail meeting and closer numbers

5. Accompany one of the team members on a daily basis in the field.

Requirements

1. Skill Sets: Hustler, Street Smart, Negotiation, Lead generation (cold calling +

physical),Knocking

2. Bike and DL mandatory.

3. Team player and a strong people person.

4. Ready to do extensive traveling.