Senior Sales Manager - Direct

Birla Carbon; Navrangpura; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Birla Carbon is looking for a Sales Manager (Direct) to execute sales operations through direct channels, managing a Sales Officer team while achieving targets. This role involves coordinating with risk and operations teams to ensure compliant sales practices.

The ideal candidate will have 5–7 years of sales experience, including 2–3 years in housing finance, with strong communication and negotiation skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5–7 years sales experience in Banking/NBFC, with 2-3 years in HFC sales.
• Capability to drive sales and maintain portfolio health.
• Understanding local market and competitor dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Execute sales operations through direct channels.
• Manage sales targets and client relationships.
• Support Sales Officer team in achieving objectives.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Team management

Effective negotiation

Customer relationship management

Education

Graduate degree

Job description

At the Aditya Birla Group, our Corporate Vision is aligned and intricately woven with our People Vision.

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Job Purpose

The purpose of this job is to execute sales operations through the Direct channel (builders, connectors, brokers, references, etc.) in line with branch plan and objectives, leading and supporting the Sales Officer team in achieving targets and managing client relationships. This role coordinates with Risk, Operations and Sales Governance teams to ensure compliant and efficient sales operations, and portfolio health. It also drives and executes cross‑selling across ABHFL and ABC products/ solutions as per branch level objectives and client requirements.

Job Context / Job Challenges

Organizational Context: Part of the Aditya Birla Capital Limited, Aditya Birla Housing Finance Limited (ABHFL) is registered with the National Housing Bank as a housing finance company under the National Housing Bank Act, 1987. The company offers a complete range of housing finance solutions such as home loans, home improvement and home construction loans, balance transfer and top‑up loans, loans against property and construction finance. While the industry is dominated by five large groups, there has been an emergence of segments like Affordable and self‑employed borrowers, given the high potential in these segments. Despite increased focus by banks, HFCs have been able to maintain their share in the mortgage market and are poised for rapid growth and plans to grow 5X (40,000 Cr) in the next 5 years. This shall take ABHFL within the top 5 percentile of HFCs in the country.

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 characterised by high volume of loan transactions and customer relationships. As a result, ABHFL business performance is strongly impacted by people, process and organisational efficiencies, alongside core business drivers such as product/solution quality, channel and customer relationship management and risk management.

While the unit of sizing up the business is its loan book size, profitability and minimised 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 customised solution fitment, while ensuring compliance at all times, are important to gain competitive advantage in this segment.

The Sales Manager (Direct) – ABHFL is responsible for achieving sales targets through direct channels, as agreed with the ASM‑ABHFL, in terms of targeted book size, growth & customer service objectives.

Key Challenges

• To assign sales targets to team members considering local factors impacting business, such as competitor presence, existing relationships, new prospect opportunities, etc., and ensure achievement of set targets.
• To upgrade financial & operational know‑how of self and team members on industry dynamics, effective negotiation and relationship building, and efficient loan processing for maintaining lasting relationships with customers while ensuring portfolio health and profitability.
• To drive loan conversion/sanction/utilisation 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 minimise potential NPAs while driving sales.
• 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 5–7 years of total sales experience in the Banking/ NBFC space, of which at least recent 2–3 years experience should be in HFC sales.

Key Result Areas

KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)

Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)

KRA1 Sales Planning & Management: Work with ASM‑ABHFL and plan sales operations for achieving targets, considering competitive forces and local trends, and cascade the same to the team. Scan the local market and competitive offerings on a periodic basis, guiding team members on possible opportunities and challenges. Proactively track target achievement and intervene with sales efforts (personal references, prospecting, etc.) to ensure the same. Communicate sales targets and provide team members clarity on business goals, role expectations, product characteristics and USPs to enhance effectiveness of sales efforts. Deploy schemes to drive sales and enhance profitability, ensuring dual focus on sales expansion and cost optimisation. Provide data for and compile periodic MIS reports for disbursements, profitability, NPAs, market expansion, etc. and communicate to ASM‑ABHFL as well as to team members.

KRA2 Customer Acquisition/Engagement: Identify local business growth opportunities, guide customer acquisition efforts, intervening where required for relationship management/origination. Work closely with team members, hand‑holding critical/complex transactions to ensure favourable closure with customer satisfaction. Intervene where required to manage customer complaints/grievances effectively, and escale to ASM‑ABHFL as necessary to secure customer relationship.

KRA3 Operational Effectiveness: Monitor and ensure efficient business processes/operations across the Customer Lifecycle (Sourcing, Approval, Servicing, Collections). Work with team for adequate focus on different distribution channels, interfacing with senior stakeholders as required for smooth operations. Drive process efficiencies and faster TATs through interfacing with stakeholders across processes and functions (Risk, Operations, Sales Governance). Drive the implementation of improved processes and best practices in order to enhance operational effectiveness, productivity and overall business impact.

KRA4 Cross‑Selling across ABFSG products: Drive team efforts as per Cross‑Selling strategy agreed with ASM‑ABHFL. Drive alignment to the adopted Cross‑Selling strategy by supporting team members with requisite communications, training, guidance, and interfacing with clients where required.

KRA5 Team and Internal Stakeholder Management: Guide and develop team members for enhanced customer acquisition and engagement efforts, and hand‑hold as required. Nominate teams for relevant technical and behavioural trainings/ seminars and work on self‑development initiatives. Coordinate with internal stakeholders for smooth operations and alignment towards achievement of targets.

KRA6 Portfolio & Risk Management: Work with the Risk, Operations and Sales Governance teams to ensure adherence to risk management and control mechanisms. Drive compliant Sales Operations and sound risk management by training and guiding the team proactively on early alert practices to reduce NPA risks. Compile and ensure systematic, accurate MIS on NPAs and credit trends, providing inputs on factors impacting portfolio quality.

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