Pula is looking for Commercial Manager, 2023 in Dhaka
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Expand your networks and influence Pula’s positioning in the region
- Constantly building deeply entrenched relationships that will enable one to understand client needs, gather market intelligence and build a credible pipeline of opportunities. To succeed in the role, one must incredibly enjoy building new relationships and leveraging on relationships to achieve your goals.
- Effectively communicate value propositions through presentations and proposals
- Act as the Pula spokesperson in the region.
- Using knowledge of the market and competitors in the regions, identify and develop the company’s unique selling propositions and differentiators.
Business Development
- Defining Commercial targets in your region and ownership of the results.
- Research, prepare and execute a sales plan focused on delivering new and recurring revenues through partnerships with agro-input companies and the public sector.
- Develop pipeline and continuously mature & qualify opportunities in order to increase Pula’’s market share and to enable achievement of sales target.
- Generating and qualifying new leads and using different approaches to penetrate prospective clients in your region. You are expected to qualify opportunities, know which deals to work on, and which ones to pass on.
- Progress prospects through a defined sales process to eventual contracting and implementation.
Customer Relationship Management
- Manage and nurture existing client relationships across a wide range of stakeholders including commodity associations, farmers’ aggregators, insurers, government and private companies.
- Manage the handover of new customers to the operations team for the implementation of the solution.
Pula is an agricultural insurance and technology company that designs and delivers innovative agricultural insurance and digital products to help smallholder farmers endure yield risks, improve their farming practices, and bolster their incomes over time.
Location:
BangladeshBenefits
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Eligibilities
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- You have experience in strong demonstrable sales to development agencies, governments and / or financial institutions.
- You have demonstrable success working against a sales quota target.
- You have experience working with Development Agencies and / or Government officials at all levels and navigating government structures.
- Critical Thinking Skills. You must have the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Behavioural Skills. You must be self-directed, work well alone or in a team structure, highly results oriented, and willing to learn and expand his/her technical and product knowledge base through formal education, professional training, and self-study.
- You have knowledge and understanding of dealing with C-suite executives with excellent communication and presentation skills, integrity and impeccable professionalism.
- Sales and or consulting experience in the area of agriculture: seed / fertilizer / agrochemical industry or related is a significant advantage.
- Experience and knowledge in the insurance industry will place you at an advantage.
- You have the ability to use data and KPIs to make management decisions.
- You are fully comfortable with sales CRM platforms, Google Drive applications such as Google Sheets, Google Docs etc.
How your role will be broken down
Relationship building : 25%
- Can build relationships with stakeholders rapidly and can expand into new networks quickly. Having deep rooted existing networks and relationships is a plus. Passionate about building and maintaining relationships.
Resilient: 20%
- Can navigate deal complexity and will not give up until the deal is signed. Tenacious. A self starter. Recovers quickly from tough situations. Anticipates and plans for complexity.
Intensity: 15%
- Hungry to close deals, has a point to prove and looks to prove that point at Pula.
- Builds their profile and therefore reputation around Pula and the Pula products. They do not want to fail therefore will do what it takes for Pula to succeed.
Coachable: 10%
- Adaptable: Is eager to learn and grow in their skills and ability. Is resourceful to close any skills and knowledge gap. Openly receives and shares feedback.
- A consummate learner.
Gravitas: 10%
- Charming. Has a confident, comfortable presence. Can sit across from a PS, Minister and hold his own and pitch without assistance.
Street Smart: 10%
- Can understand and map the stakeholders, identify and test champions, structure the deal, problem solve and find another way when the deal gets stuck.
Communication :10%
- Can confidently convert information internally and externally adjusting quickly between written and verbal communication as situations call for it. Follows through on action points from conversations and can succinctly summarize the progress required to progress a sale.
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