Vice President Business

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AboutSimplilearn

Founded in 2010 and based in Plano, Texas, and Bangalore, India, Simplilearn, a Blackstone portfolio company, is a global leader in digital upskilling, enabling learners across the globe with access to world-class training to individuals and businesses worldwide. Simplilearn offers 1,500+ live classes each month across 150+ countries, impacting over 8 million learners globally. The programs are designed and delivered with world-renowned universities, top corporations, and leading industry bodies via live online classes featuring top industry practitioners, sought-after trainers, and global leaders. From college students and early career professionals to managers, executives, small businesses, and big corporations, Simplilearn's role-based, skill-focused, industry-recognized, and globally relevant training programs are ideal upskilling solutions for diverse career or business goals.

Role Overview

VP Business (India)

business acumen, sales execution, team leadership, and financial ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Business & Revenue Leadership

• Own and drive the

  P&L for the India market

  , ensuring revenue growth, profitability, and long-term sustainability.
• Define and execute the

  India business strategy

  , with clarity on key growth drivers, product launches, marketing channels and cross functional projects needed to drive profitable growth
• Ensuring a clear understanding about the market,

  macro trends, competition activity

  and changes that the business needs to respond to
• Ownership of P&L with specific focus on

  Revenue, Gross margins and Contribution margins

  ; ensuring right cost structure and balance of making right investments as well as cost control in other areas
• Create and monitor key operational metrics (Conversions, CAC, Marketing ROAS, GM, Referral, etc) and implement data-driven interventions to keep the P&L on track.

Sales Execution

• Lead a

  400 member sales organization

  , ensuring high performance, motivation, and productivity.
• Foster a high-performance, target-driven sales culture with continuous training and enablement.
• Building

  best in class automation, templatization and training/audit solutions

  to ensure very high standards of sales quality ; as well as maximizing productivity.
• Establish

  sales targets, incentive structures, and performance metrics

  to optimize results.
• Leverage

  data-driven insights and CRM analytics

  to improve sales efficiency and effectiveness.
• At all times ensuring that Sales and GTM is

  Customer first

  .

Team Leadership & People Development

• Recruit, mentor, and retain top sales and business talent to build a world-class sales organization.
• Build leadership capabilities within the team to ensure long-term organizational scalability.
• Foster a

  culture of performance and collaboration

  . Strong

  stakeholder management

  with product, marketing and platform teams ; ensure alignment to the India business growth strategy and plan

Qualifications & Experience

• 12-15 years of experience in Consumer sales, business leadership, and P&L ownership

  , with at least

  5+ years at a leadership level.

• Proven track record of

  scaling large sales organizations (200+ members)

  in

  Consumer businesses

• Strong financial acumen with prior

  P&L ownership

  and a demonstrated ability to

  drive revenue growth and profitability.

• High comfort level with data, including being hands-on in building/analyzing data trends

• Strong bias for initiative and action

• Exceptional

  leadership, communication, and stakeholder management

  skills.
• Ability to navigate

  high-growth, fast-paced environments

  with an entrepreneurial mindset.