Senior Sales Manager

Aditya Birla Capital Ltd.; Gujarat; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. seeks a Sales Manager (DSA) to drive housing finance-related lending through the DSA channel. The role focuses on achieving targets, expanding the DSA network, and maintaining portfolio health with emphasis on risk controls and customer service.

Candidate should have 6–7 years in banking/NBFC sales, with 3–4 years in HFC sales and DSA exposure. Minimum graduate with strong negotiation and relationship skills is preferred.

Qualifications

• Education & experience: graduate with 6–7 years of total sales in Banking/NBFC.
• Last 3–4 years in HFC sales with exposure to DSA channel.
• Strong commercial acumen and execution capability.

Responsibilities

• Achieve sales targets through the DSA channel as agreed with leadership.
• Build and tap DSA network to meet targets amid market dynamics.
• Upgrade financial and operational know-how on industry trends.
• Drive loan conversion, sanction and utilization rates.
• Ensure credit quality and portfolio health in collaboration with Risk.
• Ensure compliant sales operations under market pressures.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Team management

Communication

Product-market awareness

Execution skills

Education

Graduate degree

Job description

• Providing housing finance (to buyers), Loan against Property, Commercial Property Purchase, Lease Rental Discounting and Construction Finance (to builders) solutions, ABHFL caters to a diverse range of customer segments through its various service offerings. Additionally, being predominantly retail driven, the business is characterized by high volume of loan transactions and customer relationships. As a result, ABHFL business performance is strongly impacted by people, process and organizational efficiencies, alongside core business drivers such as product/ solution quality, channel and customer relationship management and risk management.
• While unit of sizing up the business is its loan book size, profitability and minimized delinquency are also key business objectives.
• Higher cost of funding impacts profitability as well as competitiveness of loan rates that can be offered to clients
• For retail customers, identifying and acting on relevant needs for target demographics/ customer segments/ etc., in an efficient manner ensuring process, statutory and regulatory compliance at all times, are key for building business performance and sustainability.
• For institutional/ builder customers, understanding and addressing complex business requirements via proactive relationship management and customized solution fitment, while ensuring compliance at all times, are important to gain competitive advantage.
• The Sales Manager (DSA) – ABHFL is responsible for achieving sales targets through the DSA channel, as agreed with the ASMABHFL, in terms of targeted book size, growth & customer service objectives.
• To build and tap DSA network in order to achieve targets considering factors impacting DSA relationships such as competitor offerings/ terms, existing relationships, mutually beneficial propositions, etc.
• To upgrade financial & operational know how on industry dynamics, effective negotiation and relationship building, and efficient loan processing for maintaining lasting relationships with DSAs and customers while ensuring portfolio health and profitability
• To drive loan conversion/ sanction/ utilization rates and ensure an appropriate sourcing funnel to meet targets
• To ensure credit quality, effective portfolio selection/ pre-screening, and work closely with Risk team members to minimize potential NPAs while driving sales and maintaining DSA relationships
• To ensure compliant sales operations at all times, despite sales pressures and market cycles

Job Context

• Providing housing finance (to buyers), Loan against Property, Commercial Property Purchase, Lease Rental Discounting and Construction Finance (to builders) solutions, ABHFL caters to a diverse range of customer segments through its various service offerings. Additionally, being predominantly retail driven, the business is characterized by high volume of loan transactions and customer relationships. As a result, ABHFL business performance is strongly impacted by people, process and organizational efficiencies, alongside core business drivers such as product/ solution quality, channel and customer relationship management and risk management.
• While unit of sizing up the business is its loan book size, profitability and minimized delinquency are also key business objectives.
• Higher cost of funding impacts profitability as well as competitiveness of loan rates that can be offered to clients
• For retail customers, identifying and acting on relevant needs for target demographics/ customer segments/ etc., in an efficient manner ensuring process, statutory and regulatory compliance at all times, are key for building business performance and sustainability.
• For institutional/ builder customers, understanding and addressing complex business requirements via proactive relationship management and customized solution fitment, while ensuring compliance at all times, are important to gain competitive advantage.
• The Sales Manager (DSA) – ABHFL is responsible for achieving sales targets through the DSA channel, as agreed with the ASMABHFL, in terms of targeted book size, growth & customer service objectives.

Key Aspects

• Providing housing finance (to buyers), Loan against Property, Commercial Property Purchase, Lease Rental Discounting and Construction Finance (to builders) solutions, ABHFL caters to a diverse range of customer segments through its various service offerings. Additionally, being predominantly retail driven, the business is characterized by high volume of loan transactions and customer relationships. As a result, ABHFL business performance is strongly impacted by people, process and organizational efficiencies, alongside core business drivers such as product/ solution quality, channel and customer relationship management and risk management.
• While unit of sizing up the business is its loan book size, profitability and minimized delinquency are also key business objectives.
• Higher cost of funding impacts profitability as well as competitiveness of loan rates that can be offered to clients
• For retail customers, identifying and acting on relevant needs for target demographics/ customer segments/ etc., in an efficient manner ensuring process, statutory and regulatory compliance at all times, are key for building business performance and sustainability.
• For institutional/ builder customers, understanding and addressing complex business requirements via proactive relationship management and customized solution fitment, while ensuring compliance at all times, are important to gain competitive advantage.
• The Sales Manager (DSA) – ABHFL is responsible for achieving sales targets through the DSA channel, as agreed with the ASMABHFL, in terms of targeted book size, growth & customer service objectives.

Key Challenges

• To build and tap DSA network in order to achieve targets considering factors impacting DSA relationships such as competitor offerings/ terms, existing relationships, mutually beneficial propositions, etc.
• To upgrade financial & operational know how on industry dynamics, effective negotiation and relationship building, and efficient loan processing for maintaining lasting relationships with DSAs and customers while ensuring portfolio health and profitability
• To drive loan conversion/ sanction/ utilization rates and ensure an appropriate sourcing funnel to meet targets
• To ensure credit quality, effective portfolio selection/ pre-screening, and work closely with Risk team members to minimize potential NPAs while driving sales and maintaining DSA relationships
• To ensure compliant sales operations at all times, despite sales pressures and market cycles

Enabling Skill Sets & Qualifications

• Critical skill sets required to meet these challenges include commercial acumen, team management and communication, product-market awareness, and execution skills.
• Education & experience required to fulfil this profile are a graduate with minimum 6 - 7 yrs of total sales experience in the Banking/ NBFC space, of which at least recent 3 - 4 yrs experience should be in HFC sales with good exposure to DSA channel.