Strategic Alliances - Manager

AgroStar is India’s foremost AgTech start-up with a mission of #HelpingFarmersWin through right advisory and solutions, powered by data and technology. It was started with a vision to solve two of the biggest problems in Indian agriculture - Lack of guidance for healthy and sustainable farming AND limited access to quality farm inputs for consistent and qualitative farming.

With technology at its core, we have built an innovative & sustainable ecosystem that includes products such as a customized enterprise sales solutions that maps data of farmers’ crop life cycles, India’s first online farmer community, online agri-advisory with online shopping for inputs and an incomparable logistics solution for last mile rural connectivity.

We have procured and partnered with leading national and international brands for major agri-inputs like seeds, crop nutrition, crop protection and farm implements that are needed for farming and we deliver them at the doorstep of farmers. Thus, our efforts at AgroStar are focused to become the driving force to equip our farmers with the power of knowledge to farm better and smarter, through technology and up to date expert advice.

The company is funded by prominent VCs like Chiratae Venture Partners , Aavishkaar Ventures and Accel Partners. AgroStar is the winner of Economic Times’ Best Startup Award 2016, under the ’Social Enterprise’ category.

In The Media

| Fortune| Economic Times| Agribusiness Global| Yourstory| Entreprenuer |Forbes

Our Team

We are a team of highly motivated individuals, who are willing to push beyond the ceiling, initiate new ideas and take challenges head on. Apart from coffee, working in an extremely fast-paced, dynamic work culture is what we passionate souls thrive on. We ride against the tide as time is never enough and there’s always more to do.

Know more about our culture : Culture@Agrostar

Our mission of ‘Helping Farmers Win’ is a tall task as we try to bring change and development to the grassroots of India. We need heroes who are dedicated to the mission, live the dream and drive it with passion. If that sounds like you, here’s more about the role:

Key Responsibilities:

Account Development & Management

• Deliver on aggressive growth and sales targets (Monthly/ Quarterly/Annually) from existing channel partners
• Develop relationships with management, sales heads and ground teams of channel partners to drive sales
• Lead the field support team to accelerate channel partners’ on-ground performance through local activation, training and problem-solving activities
• As new channel partnerships emerge, work closely with the partner’s management and ground teams to rapidly drive activation plans and create scale.
• Provide insights to marketing and operations teams for various levels of the partner to increase sales
• Use data-driven approach to plan and forecast sales in tandem with the channel partners

New Business Development

• Responsible for providing support in closing key account acquisition
• Responsible for providing intelligence on potential new account
• Deepen relationships with prospects by looking at opportunities for upselling/ cross selling etc.
• Be proactive about solving problems even if it’s outside of your area and be ready to take on additional initiatives and responsibilities as they emerge
• Understand and be aware of competition and use this information to acquire a partner effectively.

Sales Operations (Tech & Supply Chain)

• Establish him/herself as a trusted advisor and POC for the channel partners to handle operational issues
• Provide timely support and insights to operations team to ensure the better logistics and delivery
• Be proactive in suggesting ideas and innovations to further improve the cost, processes and systems
• Directly work with in-house product and tech team for any API requirements from channel partners

Marketing

• Take initiative in suggesting the sales activation plans and ground insights to marketing team
• Lead on ground activation of marketing campaigns for channel partners
• Represent AgroStar in regional conferences, workshops and events

Specifications

• Past experience of enterprise sales, channel sales and partnerships in rural finance, rural banking, microfinance, rural insurance and other rural distribution channels
• Willingness to travel up to 50-70% of the time to metro cities, state capitals and rural areas
• A hustler and empathetic person who can collaborate and execute the business fast
• A storyteller who can connect with CXOs and a last mile farmer very well
• Hands on experience with MS Excel or any other analytics tool
• This position eventually transforms into a business head role over a period of time depending upon the performance and deliverables, so we need a person with entrepreneurial mindset, appetite to do more and learn fast.

We are looking for enthusiastic intrapreneurs who want to work at the ‘grass root’ level and want to make a difference to India’s biggest sector. We hope this excites you as much as us and looking forward to the next few conversations.