Acufore India is looking for a Sales Associate to drive demand generation, build customer relationships, and schedule meetings with prospects, leveraging technical knowledge and CRM skills in an Engineering Services environment.

About the Company

Acufore is an Engineering Services organization, established by a set of professionals with over 20 years of experience in product engineering and digital validation. Operating from its development center in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, Acufore provides a win-win proposition of highest quality at a competitive cost to their global customers. In an increasingly competitive world of product development, where reduced engineering cycle time and staying at the top of technology are the only ways to success, Acufore brings technology at its best as an add-on. The team is composed of highly qualified and experienced product development and CAE professionals from various industry domains, and the company follows a system of flat hierarchy, placing utmost importance on approachability, openness, inclusivity, and trust. Acufore believes in holistic growth and lifelong learning as a means of improving abilities and moving across functions, all while encouraging collaborative leadership and ownership.

Role Overview

The ideal candidate should be a motivated, organized, and creative individual who welcomes the challenges of acquiring and developing new business through sales efforts. You will build key customer relationships, identify business opportunities, and fix appointments while maintaining extensive knowledge of current market conditions. The candidate will join and inspire a team of like-minded go-getters to achieve the company’s vision. This role is for a natural communicator with a passion to excel in people-centric businesses and will challenge you to push boundaries every day.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for all forms of demand generation activity including cold calling, LinkedIn social media, events, referrals, web leads, and other forms of lead generation.
• Build and maintain CRM database.
• Demonstrate a prominent level of attention to detail, including data accuracy and documentation/presentation preparation with high quality.
• The role demands a basic understanding or keen interest to learn Mechanical/Electronics/Plant Engineering/Software Development and the ability to translate this knowledge into setting up meetings with Acufore prospects or prospective clients.

Why Join Us

• Learn solution selling.
• Work with innovative technologies in the domain of Engineering.
• Exposure to global projects and international client engagements.
• Flexible work environment that supports work-life balance.
• Flat organizational structure where one takes ownership of their own growth and leaders play as enablers.
• Best of both worlds: the security of a large-scale organization and opportunities of a startup environment.

Tech Stack

• CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software for database management
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for documentation and presentations
• LinkedIn and social media platforms for lead generation
• Possibly internal sales tools for managing contacts, leads, and appointments
• Basic understanding of Mechanical/Electronics/Plant Engineering/Software Development concepts

Academic and Qualifications

Any Graduate, Any Specialization. B.E. (Electronics/Mechanical/Computer Science preferred).

14 years of experience in sales or related field. Any Graduate, Any Specialization. B.E. (Electronics/Mechanical/Computer Science preferred). Must be motivated, organized, and creative. Natural communicator with a passion for people-centric business. Basic understanding or keen interest to learn Mechanical/Electronics/Plant Engineering/Software Development.

Will learn solution selling, work with innovative technologies in the domain of engineering, exposure to global projects and international client engagements, flexible work environment that supports work-life balance, flat organizational structure, best of both worlds (security of large-scale organization and opportunities of a startup environment).