Business Development Manager

Hudle · India

Company Description Hudle is India’s largest sports community platform, enabling more than 20 lakh players across 110+ cities to play regularly, join communities, and make sport part of everyday life. The platform has grown from simplifying venue discovery and booking into a comprehensive ecosystem that powers how India plays, connects, and experiences sport. Hudle partners with thousands of venues across 40+ sports, and offers community-led play, events and tournaments, coaching, curated player experiences, and rich sports content. Positioned at the center of India’s growing participation culture—spanning casual games to organized squads—Hudle sees sport as a lifestyle and social ritual, not just fitness. Hudle is a Series A–funded startup backed by leading investors including Sky Impact Capital, Physis Capital, Inflection Point Ventures, and Survam Partners.

Role Description

You will own Hudle's business development outcomes for Mumbai. That means hitting the city's partner acquisition and revenue targets, making sure every new venue is onboarded well and starts generating bookings, and building long-term relationships with the city's most important partners. You'll run the full sales cycle yourself on key deals while coaching a small team to do the same.

What You'll Own:-

Mumbai targets and pipeline

- Deliver monthly and quarterly targets for partner acquisition and venue activation for the region

- Build and maintain a healthy pipeline through market mapping, outbound outreach, referrals and on-ground prospecting

- Personally lead high-value and strategic deals, including multi-venue operators, premium clubs, institutions and real estate developers

Onboarding and activation

- Drive end-to-end onboarding of new partners: commercials, agreements, listing setup, pricing and inventory, and handover to Partner Growth

- Make sure onboarded venues go live quickly and start receiving bookings, and fix whatever stands in the way

- Coordinate with internal teams (Partner Growth, Product, Ops, Hudle Vision) for smooth launches

Key relationships

- Own relationships with Mumbai's top partners and decision-makers, serving as their senior point of contact

- Find opportunities to deepen partnerships: additional courts or sports, exclusive listings, premium products such as Hudle Vision, and co-marketing

- Stay close to the local market: new venues, competitor activity, pricing trends and emerging sports

Team leadership

- Coach and manage 1–2 BD Executives, including setting targets, doing joint field visits and running regular pipeline reviews

- Build repeatable playbooks for prospecting, pitching and closing in the Mumbai market

Process and reporting

- Keep Zoho CRM accurate and current for yourself and your team

- Share weekly and monthly progress reports with leadership, covering pipeline health, closures, activation and forecasts

- Suggest improvements to sales processes, pitch materials and commercial structures

How Success Is Measured

- New venues and courts onboarded against target

- Time from signing to first booking, and early booking volume of new partners

- Team productivity and target achievement

- CRM hygiene and forecast accuracy

What We're Looking For

- 4–7 years in B2B sales or business development, with at least 1 year leading or mentoring others.

- ⁠Experience in marketplaces, SaaS, sports, fitness, hospitality or real estate is a plus.

- A strong network in Mumbai, or the ability to build one quickly

- A track record of owning and hitting targets in a field-sales role

- Comfort selling to very different people, from tech-savvy founders and club committees to traditional, first-time business owners

- Excellent communication in English and Hindi. Marathi is a strong plus.

- Confident at running app demos, building presentations and negotiating commercials

- Organised and data-driven, comfortable with CRMs, Google Sheets and Excel

- Resilient, self-driven and at ease in a fast-moving startup

- A genuine interest in sports is a bonus

Benefits:

• Start-up environment with plenty of learning and growth opportunities
• Great exposure as the candidate will be working closely with the senior management
• Employee-first culture
• Market Salary
• Potential ESOPs in future