Business Development Associate

Vedantu; Chennai; On-site; INR 450,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Vedantu is seeking Direct Sales Associates to join our high-growth EdTech sales team in Bengaluru and Chennai. You will engage parents and students, identify learning gaps, and pitch premium learning solutions through a mix of tele-calling, virtual counseling, and field interactions.

Role requires a blend of persistent outreach, product demos, and closing skills to achieve monthly revenue milestones. Willingness to work a rotational roster including Saturdays and Sundays is expected.

Qualifications

• 0–2 years of proven inside sales or direct sales experience.
• Experience in EdTech, BFSI, Telecom, or high-velocity B2C sales is advantageous.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead conversion through cold calls, emails and WhatsApp.
• Provide educational counseling by mapping student needs to courses.
• Close sales from first contact to onboarding and payment collection.
• Meet daily talk-time metrics and monthly gross revenue targets.
• Build long-term relationships with parents and prospective buyers.

Skills

Inside sales experience

English communication

Tamil language

Target-driven

Resilience

Weekend shifts

Education

Any Graduate or Postgraduate

Job description

We are looking for highly motivated, energetic, and result-oriented Direct Sales Associates to join our high-growth EdTech sales team in Bengaluru and Chennai. In this role, you will be the face of the company, directly interacting with parents and students to understand their educational gaps and pitch our premium learning solutions. This is a hardcore direct role requiring a blend of persistent tele-calling, virtual counseling and field consulting to meet monthly revenue milestones.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Conversion: Initiate outbound connections with potential leads generated through marketing campaigns via cold calls, emails, and WhatsApp.
• Educational Counseling: Act as an academic consultant by identifying the specific learning needs of students, mapping them to our courses, and conducting impactful product demonstrations.
• End-to-End Sales Closure: Manage the complete sales pipeline from first contact, overcoming customer objections, to final payment collection and onboarding.
• Target Achievement: Consistently achieve individual daily talk-time metrics and monthly gross revenue targets.
• Relationship Building: Build a strong rapport with parents and prospective buyers to foster long-term customer trust and generate organic referrals Manage the complete sales pipeline from first contact, overcoming customer objections, to final payment collection and onboarding.
• Target Achievement: Consistently achieve individual daily talk-time metrics and monthly gross revenue targets.
• Relationship Building: Build a strong rapport with parents and prospective buyers to foster long-term customer trust and generate organic referrals

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience: 0 to 2 years of proven experience in hardcore inside sales, direct sales, or business development. Experience in EdTech, BFSI, Telecom, or high-velocity B2C sales is a major advantage.
• Education: Any Graduate or Postgraduate degree.
• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Proficiency in local language Tamil for Chennai is highly desirable to build a local connection.
• Mindset: High resilience, target-driven attitude, and ability to handle intense market rejection.
• Logistics: Willingness to work on a rotational roster, including weekends (Saturdays & Sundays are critical business days in EdTech)

What’s in it for You?

• Uncapped Incentives: Direct correlation between your hard work and earning potential with best-in-industry monthly incentive structures.
• Fast-Track Growth: Performance-linked promotions enabling top performers to step up into Team Lead or Sales Manager roles within 12-18 months.
• Comprehensive Training: Robust 1 week sales boot camp covering product knowledge, consumer psychology, and consultative selling frameworks.