Business Development Manager

Collegedunia; Pune District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Collegedunia is seeking a Business Development Manager (BDM) to acquire new education institutes for digital campaigns and to serve as the primary liaison between clients and internal teams. The role focuses on building strong relationships, driving revenue, and ensuring campaign success across the state.

The ideal candidate will have excellent negotiation, communication, and presentation skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple client accounts and travel as required.

Qualifications

• Strong negotiation skills and ability to follow through on contracts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; effective presenter and listener.
• Willingness to travel extensively across the state.
• Experience interacting with client executives and building trusted relationships.
• Prior EdTech industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Acquire new education institutes and universities for digital campaigns and advertisements.
• Be the single point of contact between Clients and internal teams as a BDM.
• Build and maximize revenue from assigned accounts through strong client relationships.
• Maintain communication across client organizations and set clear expectations.
• Manage client campaigns to deliver promised outcomes from initial proposals.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders like counselors and admissions directors.
• Follow up for payments to ensure timely target achievement.
• Conduct regular reviews with clients to report progress and forecast actions.

Skills

Negotiation

Communication

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Time management

Networking

Travel willingness

EdTech domain knowledge

Job description

Collegedunia is an education portal, matching students with the best colleges in India & abroad. We help in college research, exam prep tips, application process &also provide insights on-campus life. Launched in 2014, we are the highest ranked portal by Similar Web in education.

We have also been awarded as - Best Educational Portal- by IAMAI in 2017, and listed by TechinAsia as Top 100 Startups in Asia. Collegedunia is fueled by the energy of over a 1000 individuals having an average age around 25 years. The talent pool comprises data analysts, engineers, designers, writers, managers, marketers, which is increasing at 10% every month.

To KnowMore About Us

• https://www.techinasia.com/india-collegedunia-career-counseling

Work Culture

Job Description

• Acquire new education institutes, colleges and universities for digital campaigns and advertisements
• As a BDM, you would be the single point of contact between the Clients and the internal teams.
• Client Relationship Building - The BDM would be responsible for building effective relationships with some of the key clients and maximizing revenue from the assigned existing accounts.
• Apart from building strong communication channels at all levels of the client's organization, the BDM would also be responsible for setting proper expectations and ensuring that performance is maintained
• Manage the entire campaign of the clients to ensure delivery of the committed outcomes in the initial proposal
• Develop multi-level relationships with key stakeholders in the client organizations, such as Counselors, Marketing Managers, Marketing Heads, Chairmen, Deans, and Admission Directors
• Follow up for payments and timely collection to ensure timely achievement of assigned targets
• Conducting regular review meetings with the client to keep them apprised of the progress of their campaigns, gather feedback from them and facilitate troubleshooting wherever necessary, present future plan of action along with forecasts using key account metrics.
• Escalation Management - Proactively support customers by effectively handling their escalations through understanding of the client's critical priorities, solving the complex blockers and ensuring delivery of the promised deliverables within the communicated time frame.

Requirements

• Strong negotiation skills, with the ability to follow-through on client contracts
• Willingness to travel extensively across the state
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; must be a listener, a presenter, and a people-person
• Result-oriented and self-motivated to quickly iterate to deliver desired outcomes
• Experience in interacting with Client executive influencers, and building trusted relationships across the client organization
• Hunter mentality that builds win-win relationships
• Time Management to ensure service level commitments
• Presentation and demonstration skills
• Must have strong university/college network and connections
• Prior experience in the EdTech industry is required