Regional Sales Manager - Unsecured Salaried

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📍 Mysore, Karnataka, India
Sales

About this role

 

Basic Details: Fill the required information about business, unit, location, position, reports to position and date of updation of JD  

 

 

Business

Financial Services HO

Unit

Aditya Birla Finance Ltd

Location

Multiple Locations

Poornata Position Number of the job 

NA

Reports to: Poornata Position Number

 

 

Poornata Position Title of the job (30 characters max)

Regional Sales Manager

Reports to: Poornata Position Title

 

Function

Sales-SLS

Reports to: Function 

Sales

Department

BGFPSL-Personal Loan

Reports to: Department 

Personal Loan

Designation of the Employee 

Regional Sales Manager

Designation of the Manager  

 

Date of writing/updation of JD

05th May 2022

 

 

 

                                   


 

1)  Job Purpose: Write the purpose for which the job exists (in 2-3 lines)  (Max 1325 Characters)

The purpose of this job is:

  1. To deliver on area/ local strategy for the Unsecured Business segment in terms of target segments, strengthening existing relationships and setting up new channels for market penetration, and work towards achievement of sales targets and operational plans.
  2. To proactively address customer/ DSA issues and escalate cases (e.g. fraud alerts, customer complaints or exception handling) as required for smooth operations; work on removal of bottlenecks for the achievement of targets for Unsecured Business segment at the area/ local level
  3. To grow the penetration of the business by actively partnering, negotiating and building relationships with the DSA network
  4. To take ownership for end to end Unsecured business transactions in assigned area of coverage ensuring efficient internal operations

To execute superior product delivery and ensure credit quality of new acquisitions with compliant sales operations & coordination with Risk team

 

2) Dimensions: Mention quantitative or qualitative parameters that are relevant for the job and provide a better understanding of the scope and scale of the job.  

Business Workforce Number
 (Max 254 Characters)  

Investing & Financing

Unit Workforce Number
 (Max 254 Characters)  

Business Development of lending products

Function Workforce Number  
 (Max 254 Characters)  

Expected to sell the retail products like PL/BL/STLS/STUL/THE

Department Workforce Number  
 (Max 254 Characters)  

Sales of Retail loans – PL/BL/STSL/STUL/THE

Other Quantitative and Important Parameters for the job: Budgets/ Volumes/No. of Products/Geography/ Markets/ Customers or any other parameter 

Sales of PL/BL/STSL/STUL/THE

 

3) Job Context & Major Challenges: Write the specific aspects of the job that provide a challenge (internal and external) to the jobholder in the context of the Business/Unit/Function/Department/Section ((Max 3975 Characters)

Organizational Context

Key Aspects:

  1. As the debt arm of Aditya Birla Capital (ABC), Aditya Birla Finance Limited (ABFL) offers specialized lending and financing solutions in the areas of Capital Markets, Corporate/ Trade Finance, Commercial Real Estate and Mortgages. Currently ranked within the top 25 NBFCs of India, ABFL has made significant progress and the Company’s balance sheet at INR 15,000 Cr plus exceeds that of several mid-sized Banks and NBFCs.
  2. The company has a well-defined vision of being one of the most reputed and material financiers within the lending space – spread across Retail HNI and corporate clientele. It has made significant investments in process and system infrastructure towards preparing for the next level of growth and are one of the only financial entities certified for ISO 9001:2008 across all business processes. Spread across 18 cities, it plans on further diversifying its risk and revenue mix through expansion into new geographies and new product segments allowing customers a one-window shop for all their financing needs.
  3. Having focused traditionally on secured lending verticals and built a strong balance sheet on the same, ABFL has ventured into Unsecured Business segment in order to effectively capitalize on its financial base with carefully managed exposures in this higher yield and profit segment.

Job Context

Key Aspects:

  1. The Unsecured Business segment products line caters to funding short term and medium term working capital needs of Small Businesses and individuals, via a suite of customized short and long tenured products, without any security/ collateral.
  2. Offerings comprise unsecured loans to salaried individuals/ self-employed individuals/ non-individual entities, with end use of funds (Medical emergency, Marriage, working capital requirement, business expansion etc.) to be ascertained during the loan appraisal process
  3. The business is highly retail in nature, characterized by high transaction volumes, smaller ticket sizes, and significantly higher spread and profit margins (up to four times that of Secured Lending products)
  4. Given the unsecured nature of loans disbursed, the business also entails stringent controls and monitoring to ensure portfolio health and quality at all times
  5. While unit of sizing up the business is its loan book size, profitability and minimized delinquency are key business objectives.
  6. Lending in the Unsecured segment takes 2 forms – Personal Loans and Business Loans, both of which leverage the ABG ecosystem and channel partners for the major share of business.
  7. Higher cost of funding impacts profitability as well as competitiveness of loan rates that can be offered to customers
  8. Understanding of product market characteristics such as channel relationship management, region specific occupations/trade, local financial preferences and practices are important to gain competitive advantage while structuring loans and identifying leads.
  9. The Sales Manager – Unsecured Business is responsible for operationalizing business transactions and liaises with DSAs and/ or end customers in his/her zone to maximize disbursals, profit, growth & customer service objectives.

Key Challenges

  1. To deliver on operational plan in the assigned coverage area in a differentiated manner considering local factors, channel dynamics and consumer preferences, that can withstand competitive pressures on the ground
  2. To meet business volume/ value targets while keeping abreast with and overcoming competitor product offerings and customer schemes
  3. To increase market share in assigned coverage area against stiff competition, overcoming competitive pressures borne out of better established networks, price undercutting, etc.
  4. To establish a strong local network and leverage the same to generate business leads, and also identify opportunities for cross sell with existing customers
  5. To proactively build new and nurture existing DSA relationships keeping in mind immediate and longer term business interests, and considering the phased manner of team size expansion
  6. To constantly upgrade financial & operational know how on efficient loan processing, effective negotiation and relationship building for maintaining credibility with DSA network and profitable target achievement
  7. To keep abreast with the latest market trends and local market preferences and needs
  8. To ensure loan conversion/ sanction/ utilization percentages are high and a broad enough sourcing funnel is built to meet targets 
  9. To ensure credit quality and effective portfolio selection/pre screening thereby minimizing potential NPAs
  10. To ensure compliant sales operations despite sales pressures and market cycles

Enabling Skill Sets & Qualifications

  1. Critical skill sets required to meet these challenges include execution excellence, business & commercial acumen, sound product understanding, strong communication and influencing skills.

Education & experience required to fulfill this profile are a postgraduate with minimum 4 – 6 yrs of total sales experience/ graduate with minimum 6 - 8 yrs of total sales experience of which at least recent 2-3 yrs experience should be in unsecured lending.

 

 

4) Key Result Areas: Write the key results expected from the job and the supporting actions for each of these key result areas (For a majority of jobs typically there could be 4- 7 key result areas)- Maximum 10 KRAs can be updated

Key Result Areas  (Max 1325 Characters)

Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters)

Sales Growth & Client Acquisition

  1. Identify and execute sales growth opportunities at a local/ area level, driving channel expansion and new account acquisition
  2. Deliver on sales targets by building strong relationships in the DSA network and influencing DSA outcomes
  3. Segment the market and identify potential direct clients, approach them and generate business through customized loan structure offerings that meet client requirements and also generate good margins for business
  4. Carry out regular meetings and sales calls with prospective clients on a regular basis to source business
  5. Augment the sales volumes of Unsecured lending, manage channel databases and tap them tactically to ensure healthy sales pipeline
  6. Drive faster TATs through effective loan sanctioning by building strong relationships with internal stakeholders in order to expand channel presence and customer base
  7. Track and report on sales operations and productivity metrics, and work towards building a high-performance sales culture

Actively participate in initiatives and contests driven by Business Development teams

Operational Effectiveness

 

 

  1. Work with dual focus on sales volume and value (IRR)
  2. Track & ensure SLA adherence, sales efficiencies and RoI
  3. Adopt prescribed improvements in processes and best practices in order to enhance operational productivity and suggest improvements as well 

Analyze and communicate operational information periodically as per agreed timelines and MIS formats for disbursements, profits, NPAs, channel expansion, new product launches, new branches, new channel development, etc. and communicate to ZSM/ ASM as well as down the line

 

 

5)  Job Purpose of Direct Reports: Describe the job purpose of the direct report/s to the job (in 2-3 lines for each report) 

NA

 

6)      Relationships: Describe the nature and purpose of most important contacts or relationship (except superior/team members) with individuals, departments, organizations inside and outside of the organization, that job is required to interact with in order to deliver the job objectives

Relationship Type (Max 80 Characters)

Frequency 

Nature (Max 1325 Characters)

Internal

 

 

 

ZSM/ ASM - Unsecured

 

 

Peer SMs – Unsecured 

 

 

 

HR dept

 

 

IT dept

 

Risk dept

 

 

Operations dept

 

 

 

Weekly

 

 

 

Need Based

 

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Need Based/ Process Driven

 

Need Based

 

Daily

 

 

Daily

 

 

Business MIS, review on new market development, progress on objectives, client escalations

 

Supporting channel expansion, sales strategies, client escalation cases

 

Performance Reviews, Training

 

 

Back-end/ systems support

 

Proposal evaluations, portfolio monitoring

 

Client servicing issues, TAT reviews

 

External

 

 

 

Existing and Prospective customers

 

 

Channel partners (DSAs)

 

Daily/ Need Based

 

 

 

Daily

 

CRM & understanding the need of new products/ positioning changes

 

Product and business development initiatives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7) Organizational Relationships: Provide the structure for a level above and below the position for which this job description is written. Use position titles in the structured and indicate all the reports of the position. 






 

 

 

              

 

 

SIGN-OFF: Provide the name of the Manager and the jobholder. Signature needed for the hard copy of the JD. Hard copy to be maintained in the organizational record. 

 

Job Holder

Reports to – Manager 

Name

 

 

Signature (needed for the hard copy) 

 

 

 

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