About Company
Founded in 2019, apna is India’s largest professional networking and jobs platform for >250M members of India’s rising working class. Our mission is to connect people to opportunities and help reduce the skill and employment gap.
We help candidates build their digital professional identities, find the best fit hyperlocal jobs, grow their network and learn new skills to grow their careers. Employers can find the best talent and hire for over 70 different roles in < 48 hours.
Having raised $90+ million from marquee investors like Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, Rocketship.vc and Greenoaks Capital, Apna is on a mission to enable livelihoods for billions in India.
About the Team
The Growth and Business team at Apna owns user and revenue growth metrics across all business lines candidates and employers. The team has played a key role in Apna’s growth journey to become a clear market leader in the space within 18 months of product launch overtaking multiple incumbent players. This has been achieved by managing multiple short and long term levers, such as marketing, sales, search engine or appstore optimization, product changes and partnerships and tactically thinking through resource and capital allocation, cost-upside trade-offs and realization timelines across multiple initiatives. We are adding new members to the team to augment our existing capabilities and help chart Apna’s next phase of rapid business growth & product development.
Role:
• Identifying new opportunities for business development within the existing account and client retention
• Manage end to end account management cycle presentation, commercial negotiation, defining scope of work
• Managing of business deals by coordinating requirements developing and negotiating contracts; and integrating contract requirements with business operations.
• Be the point of contact for internal & external stakeholders
• Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
• Enhances organization’s reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests.
• Explores opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Responsible for achieving set sales targets.
• Being part of a start-up from an early stage, lead your area of expertise and be a part of this exciting growth journey.
Requirements
1. Previous experience in handling large accounts with a lot of depth
2. Stakeholder Management: External client-facing role, managing client expectations, should be able to navigate his/her way to the leadership of the companies
3. Good operations and commercial understanding of the business and should be able to negotiate with the clients
4. Strategic Planning of accounts, should be able to scale accounts with a long-term vision in mind
5. Should have a good product understanding
Skills Required
- Previous experience handling large accounts with significant depth
- Experience in external client-facing stakeholder management and navigating relationships with company leadership
- Strong operations and commercial understanding, including client negotiation skills
- Ability to strategically plan and scale accounts with a long-term vision
- Good understanding of the product
What We Do
Apna is India's largest professional networking and jobs platform, connecting job seekers, particularly blue and grey-collar workers, with employers. It facilitates job discovery, skill development, and professional networking.
