Job Title: Business Development Officer

• Important: Candidates need to apply on the link mentioned below, otherwise they will not be entertained

Who Are We?

• Founded by Orenda, Taleemabad’s mission is to provide high quality education leveraging technology.
• So far we’ve made great headway - our team is now 130+ members strong, and we’ve directly impacted the lives of more than 9 million children across Pakistan. Here’s how we did it:
• Brought together animators, designers, teachers and curriculum developers to create a cartoon series by the name of Taleemabad.
• Taleemabad is set in an imaginary city, where our characters get into all sorts of (mis)adventures with one sole objective: to get children to learn while having fun.

Watch a sample here.

• Read details about our approach to building children’s media here.
• The series is now broadcast on national television, and viewed by more than 8M+ children every week according to PEMRA.
• Brought together teachers with developers and tech enthusiasts, and created a game-based learning platform for android phones (called the Taleemabad Learning App) which has now reached 1M+ households, with a rating of 4.4 on Playstore!
• Launched School vertical (details here), where we empower entrepreneurs to take our approach and build a truly progressive, modern school at an affordable fee.
• It’s fun to be in Taleemabad, you should visit one soon. We plan to build 100+ of these in the next year, taking incredibly engaging learning across the country.
• Our work has gotten us recognition from the Queen of England, a feature in the New York Times and Forbes magazine.
• We’re going places in the next few years, and we want you to join us on the journey.

Why Orenda?

• Orenda is an exciting and diverse place to work, earnestly built by an enthusiastic, future-oriented, and zealous bunch of people.

• We offer a close-knit, amicable and high-recognition culture where our people are valued members of the organization and a key contributor to society, owing to the meaningful work they do.

• Truly believing our employees to be our biggest asset, we empower everyone at any level to initiate and bring about real advances in transforming the education sector of Pakistan.

Job Purpose

• We are looking to hire Business Development Officer
• The Ideal Candidate
• The incumbent must have Educational Sector Experience / Candidate should own personal transportation
• A Typical Day at Work
• Identifying, qualifying, and securing business opportunities; coordinating business generation activities; developing customized targeted sales strategies

• Building business relationships with current and potential clients

• Understanding client needs and offering solutions and support, answering potential client questions and follow-up call questions

• Collaborating with other stakeholders to secure, retain, and grow accounts

• Creating and maintaining a list/database of prospect clients; maintaining a database (CRM, Excel, etc.) of prospective client information

• Cold calling; making multiple outbound calls to potential clients; closing sales and working with the client through the closing process

• Meeting all quotas for cold, active, inactive calls, appointments, and interviews; meeting or exceeding annual sales goals

• Maintaining a pipeline of all sales administration using CRM software

• Collaborating with management on sales goals, planning, and forecasting; maintaining short- and long-term business development plans

• Must be available for travelling within and out of city

• Available for physical for market surveys and sales call

• Share insights and learning from the sales meeting for continuous improvement of funnel

• Capacity to work Independently

Education

• Business or marketing-related degree or equivalent professional qualification

• 02 to 04 Years’ field experience in all aspects of Sales & business development

• Marketing Experience in Educational sector

• proven experience in customer and market research

• relevant product and industry knowledge

• digital marketing skills

Knowledge & Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Formal presentation skills

• Organization and planning

• Problem analysis and problem-solving

• Persuasiveness, adaptability, creativity

Perks:

• The opportunity to engage with industry experts and prodigal award-winning young talent

• The freedom to influence organization-wide strategy and to set the future direction of the company

• The rare opportunity to directly impact the education of millions of children in Pakistan

• Market-competitive salary package