Business Development role

About Us : We are a boutique content studio that believes in creating content while being mindful of its impact on clients, partners, and employees. We want to add value- both to the clients and ourselves. All for fun and flexibility, we create content across platforms and media. WordBerries was founded with immense love for words and how they can give shape to brand stories. We don’t stop till we have cracked the brand’s content requirements, and we have never missed a deadline!

www.wordberries.in

About the role : Please note this is NOT a writing / editing position. You will be responsible for growing our business. This is a client-facing role : from hunting for opportunities, servicing leads, scoping, pricing, and negotiating, to sign-off. It also does not involve creating or posting designs, although knowledge of that will be a plus. Basically, you need to qualify and convert relevant prospects into clients and hand them over to the operations team

What this role is NOT :

This is NOT a content writing / content editing position.

This is NOT about chasing targets.

Responsibilities : Full Time

Keep an eye out for content creation opportunities with corporates and start-ups

Service leads that reach out

Understand the prospect‘s business and size up the requirements by asking the right questions

Prepare pitches for the client, including research ( industry analysis, competition research, brand tonality, etc ) with the assistance of AI, but not limiting yourself to it

Propose formats , ideas , frequency, topics , themes , and concept wireframes

after checking the viability with internal teams for execution

Researching the brand, competition, and preparing tonality documents

Prepare estimates and proposals, RFP responses, such that they meet the client's expectations

Lead pricing negotiations

Seamless handover to the editorial and servicing team of the approved project scope by preparing the brief document

Managing paperwork and agreements - liaising with the legal team - with the help of an admin person

Scouting existing corporates and startups with meaningful and relevant ideas to create and upsell / cross-sell content

Location : Goregaon W, Mumbai only

Skills : This role requires you to be a polymath and work on multiple projects

Currently staying in Mumbai ( Dadar to Vasai) or ready to move to Mumbai ( Dadar to Vasai)- this is a show stopper for us

BBA / MBA Marketing

Good written and spoken Communication skills

Decent command over spoken English

1-2 years of work experience in marketing and advertising / Fresher with marketing experience - Knowledge of how social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pinterest) work

Hungry and assertive - able to be comfortable with numbers for pricing and calm in cutthroat negotiations

Competent in prioritising and working with little / no supervision in a remote set-up

Self-motivated and trustworthy

Needs to have their own laptop with MS Windows loaded

What’s in it for you?

Opportunity to work with a diverse range of brands and sectors

Flexibility of Hybrid working

Well-structured leave policy

Work-life balance is important to us

Monthly training, workshops, and 1-on-1 sessions to plan personalised career growth.

Supportive, inclusive and collaborative workplace where you want to grow.

Part of a fun, vibrant and passionate culture

CTC : Upto INR 3.6L per annum