Business Development and Partnerships Manager

Job Description

Location: Khar West, Mumbai

The most exciting part about this role

You will influence hiring decisions of managers/startup founders and help them with access to smart & future ready talent from our pool

What is so unique about us

Instead of a passive learning 1 way experience, each cohort/batch operates like an ‘imaginary company’ and the fellows are core team members. They have to make decisions, solve problems and craft compelling communication. The trainer roleplays as a founder and is a mentor, constructive critique and guide. Through these role play based simulations, fellows master mental models and techniques for how to think, communicate and solve across 100+ generalistic business scenarios. This experience provides a unique edge in placements and growth across roles and sectors.

Impact achieved

Till date, we have enabled 50,000+ learners to gain a unique edge in placements, perform better than the average candidate at work, and build automation-proof careers.

About the Founder

Samyak has been featured by Forbes as one of Asia's most influential young entrepreneurs and has founded several social impact initiatives that have won national and international recognition. He has over 18 years of entrepreneurial experience and is on a mission to empower humans to outsmart artificial intelligence at work. Till date his work has positively impacted 1,00,000+ youth across the nation. For more information please visit his linkedin profile.

Key responsibility areas

Identify and Engage with startups and SMEs to understand their entry level hiring requirements
Pitch talent from our smart fellows (trained learners) pool for their hiring needs and convince them to give equal weightage to proficiency in non-technical skills/soft skills as technical skills or academic competence
Build strategies to make our workplace readiness profile (soft skills assessment report based on performance in workplace simulation training) as a gold standard in hiring decisions for start ups and SMEs
Enable feedback loop with training team to measure performance of placed talent
Identify and engage start ups and SMEs to build a smart fellowship experience for the existing teams as part of their talent development initiatives

Background and experience

Proven track record in B2B Sales and / or client servicing
Existing network/access to decision makers in start ups and SMEs
Currently in Mumbai
General awareness about emerging technologies such as a.i