Business Analyst

Job Title: Senior Business Development Executive (Staff Augmentation)

Location: Indore, India

Company: Ment Tech Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Job Description:

We are seeking an enthusiastic and results-driven Senior Business Development Executive to join our dynamic team at Ment Tech Labs Pvt. Ltd. in Indore. As a Sr. BDE, you will play a pivotal role in expanding our client base through effective staff augmentation solutions. The ideal candidate should possess a strong understanding of staff augmentation, demonstrate proficiency in creating and negotiating Master Service Agreements (MSA), Statements of Work (SOW), and other documentation.

Responsibilities:

1. Staff Augmentation Expertise:

• Develop a deep understanding of staff augmentation services and effectively communicate the value proposition to clients.

1. Contract Management:

• Create, negotiate, and manage Master Service Agreements (MSA), Statements of Work (SOW), and other contractual documentation.

1. Proactive Business Development:

• Proactively identify and pursue new business opportunities, driving growth and revenue for the company.

1. Communication Skills:

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to engage with clients, understand their requirements, and articulate solutions effectively.

1. Learning and Growth:

• Thrive in a dynamic environment, continuously learning and adapting to industry trends, client needs, and market demands.

1. Target-Driven Approach:

• Work with set targets and develop strategies to achieve and exceed business development goals.

1. Keen Urge to Grow:

• Exhibit a keen interest in personal and professional growth, taking ownership of career development and contributing to the overall success of the team.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field.
2. Minimum of 5 years of experience in Business Development, specifically in staff augmentation.
3. Proven track record of successfully negotiating and closing deals.
4. Strong understanding of Master Service Agreements, Statements of Work, and other contractual documentation.
5. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
6. Results-oriented with a demonstrated ability to meet and exceed targets.
7. Proactive attitude with a strong urge to learn, grow, and contribute to the success of the business.

Job Description:

• Requirement gathering for web and app development projects
• Preparation of necessary docs(BRD, FRD, SOW, RFQ, NDAs, and POC) for the clients requirement.
• Drafting user stories, wire frames and project plans based on the requirements of the client
• Understanding the default software/applications products and services of Webkul and its functionalities(at the workflow level) for a personalized explanation of the same to the clients.
• Handling customers' pre-sales and post-sales queries over various communication mediums like calls/emails/Skype/ helpdesk/ social networking sites.
• Project assignment and being clients major communication for ongoing projects.
• Managing project delivery(It covers check of all the SOW points agreed)
• Assigning the technical queries/issues of clients to the technical departments.
• Preparing a full User guide(technical doc/content) of the products for Webkul’s products, Services, and customers in written and video format as well.
• Attending international as well as domestic seminars and conferences regarding the promotion of the products with the presentation.
• Market research of the products.
• Responsible for new partnerships of the organization, acting as a bridge between the client side and the organization.
• Full-time office job, No field work.

Our business analysts are the drivers behind our continued growth and success. With our commitment to innovation, it’s our business analysts who seek out, develop, and help implement strategic initiatives for improved efficiency and productivity. We’re currently searching for an experienced business analyst to help guide our organization into the future. From researching progressive systems solutions to evaluating their impact, our ideal candidate is a detailed planner, expert communicator, and top-notch analyst. They should be wholly committed to the discovery and development of innovative solutions in an ever-changing digital landscape.

Objectives of this Role

• Drive identification of requirements across business units and identify substandard systems processes through evaluation of real-time data
• Serve as thought leader for technical business processes, developing forward-thinking systems prototypes that promote increased efficiency and productivity on multiple levels
• Create and implement precise management plans for every project, with attention to transparent communication at all levels
• Perform, evaluate, and communicate thorough quality assurance at every stage of systems development
• Determine and develop user requirements for systems in production, to ensure maximum usability  

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

• Partner with other stakeholder teams across business units (i.e., sales, finance, security, compliance) to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams
• Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis, and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of monthly status reports to all appropriate parties
• Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation
• Conduct daily systems analytics to maximize effectiveness and troubleshoot problems
• Develop meaningful and lasting relationships with partners for optimized systems integration, and respond to questions and concerns from managers and executives with supporting research and recommendations

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT or Computer Science
• 5+ years of proven experience in an analytics and systems development capacity
• High proficiency with SQL language and database management
• Proven analytical abilities
• Practical experience generating process documentation and reports
• Excellent communicator with the ability to translate data into actionable insights

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications, including Visio
• Proven capabilities in project and user-testing management
• Proven development of innovative and impactful systems solutions
• Extensive experience with data visualization
• Highly proficient technical writing capabilities

• Gather & document requirements using tools like interviews, workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, etc.
• Interact with clients to do requirements gathering that will include the usage of various elicitation techniques like Document Analysis, Requirement Workshops, Focused Groups etc.
• Conduct business analysis and research to identify key metrics and opportunities for improvements
• Create various Scope Management Artifacts like WBS, Product Backlogs, Feature Sets, MRDs, PRDs, FRDs, Use Cases, Business Cases, User Stories etc.
• Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project by leading the planning of product release plans and setting expectations for the delivery of new functionalities.
• Analyze the practicality of development requirements of new systems and upgrades to existing systems.
• Manage Project Scope and Scope creeps.
•  Raise Change Requests, interact with the Dev team and help in coming up with Impact analysis and estimates.
• Run the Capability Gaps analysis and deliver the report against it.
• Define the Business Case that can further result in Project Charter.
• Prioritize Requirements independently or in collaboration with Dev Team/Stakeholders using various prioritization techniques.
• Run a project in SCRUM Mode and write User Stories with every nitty-gritty even to a system level wherever required.
• Write and manage the scope of Jira and Confluence.
• Participate in user acceptance testing.

• 2+ years of experience in a similar role for web/mobile projects.

• Excellent documentation, verbal & written communication, and team collaboration skills.
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Outstanding presentation and leadership skills.
• Experience in iterative development methodologies like Agile.
• Technical Writing
• Experience with project management tools (Mention tools we are using or required )

1. To ANALYZE Business Requirements end-to-end & Documenting Requirements
2. Write Good User Stories (Preferably using INVEST techniques)
3. Specify acceptance criteria for features and user stories to ensure delivery of requirements that meet or exceed the business needs 
4. Create wireframe prototypes, Mockups and documenting them using Visio or similar tools
5. Document requirements by creating use cases, functional and requirement specifications documents
6. Collaborate with internal teams to ensure proper documentation of the product capabilities
7. Own the Product backlog, elaborating and prioritizing user stories to be included in the backlog 
8. Presenting the product capabilities, gathering requirements and identifying gaps 
9. Interface with clients and partners to understand business environments, current and future requirements; participate as a solutions expert
10. Roadmap prioritization, conceptualize new product features, and assist with competitive positioning

About Us: We are a group of techies, data analysts, digital marketers, and operations professionals who have come together to provide next-generation e-commerce solutions. We help brands & private labels to grow their businesses on platforms such as Amazon and their own website. We love brainstorming ideas on marketing businesses through digital media and utilize technology to execute them further to achieve the desired goals.

Current Offerings of Technology Department:

1. Creating scalable and conversion-friendly eCommerce web platforms using headless integration of Magento and ReactJS
2. Building PWAs platforms to provide a better user experience
3. Building distributor B2B portals
4. Migrating legacy systems to boost conversion and effectiveness preserving their orders, customers, product data and SEO benefits

Key Responsibilities:

1. Will be responsible for the scope management for the multiple projects undertaken
2. Work directly with clients and consultants to gather requirements to understand their goals and work with the internal team to develop the best solution
3. Liaise with external and internal teams to act as the primary technical contact for queries related to the project
4. Work with development teams to get them in sync with client requirements
5.  Improve processes & methodologies to achieve faster and better delivery of project
6. Work on internal projects (product and business intelligence projects) to achieve the goal of the respective team
7. Write user stories, document the product requirements, workflows & test criteria
8.  Actively work with Sales team on pre-sales proposal activities & high-level solutioning
9.  Take initiatives to set up processes in the company and be actively involved in hiring and building the future team
10. Be the custodian of functional & non-functional requirements of the projects undertaken
11. Work with Product Owner to define, prioritize requirements and accurately maintain requirements traceability.

Skills You Should Have:

1.  Excellent communicator and relationship builder: A track record of collaborating with a variety of cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
2. Dynamic: Strong decision-making and prioritization ability. Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems
3. Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers
4. Sense of data: Ability to turn insights into actionable growth initiatives
5. Accountability: High sense of ownership and relentlessness to deliver projects with
6. High business impact: You value integrity and derive great personal joy from efficient teamwork
7. Problem-solving: Good in problem-solving and ability to bring in new ideas and drive project agenda from scratch
8. Tools: Experience with tools for capturing and maintaining requirements & mockups/sketches is ideal. i.e. Jira, Zoho
9. Consulting approach: Ability to do feasibility study and high-level solutioning for clients
10. Soft skills: Good English communication and proactive, collaborative mindset to maintain continuous communication with the clients for project updates and in turn build trust and effective working relationships.

Requirements:

1. Experience with all stages of the SDLC, conceptualization to implementation.
2. Exposure to Agile methodologies (Scrum)
3. Experience working at an agile software company/startup is a bonus
4. Strong project instincts; you have a strong intuition about what users want and understand their business

Why should you consider joining Growisto?

1. It will be a challenging role and you will get complete ownership to solve challenging problems. If you like challenges and think from a first principle basis, you should definitely take this up
2. If you have the aspiration to grow and develop as a leader in parallel to a multifold growth rate of a start-up then you should join us
3. If we have to choose between culture/team and profits, our obvious choice is culture. If your thought process and personality resonate with our cultural values, then you should join us

Why should you not consider joining Growisto?

1. If the role description does not excite you, then you should not join us
2. We are a startup and things will move fast. If you are not comfortable in a fast-paced environment, then you should not join us

• Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end-users.

• Proven experience with writing business documents such as proposals, Statement of work, and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources

• Collaborates with the client, Tech Head(s), and Dev Team to determine project scope, vision, challenges, risks, and assumptions
• Clearly identify and periodically document project stakeholders and establish customer groups, as well as their characteristics.
• Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Works with stakeholders and the project teams to prioritize collected requirements using Agile methodologies.
• Researches, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Develops and conducts peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are accurately interpreted.
• Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
• Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Getting project sign off from stakeholders upon completion of a phase/project

• Ensure adherence towards PMO and CMMI processes
• Helps PMO in process enhancement, roll-out, tracking, and reporting
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources

• Provides guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members.

(Job Code: BNSAN1)

No of Positions: 2

Purpose of Position:

Requirements management is one of the core skills of business analysts. Developing technical solutions to business problems, or to advance a company’s sales efforts, begins with defining, analyzing and documenting requirements. Managing requirements at the project level can help fulfill business needs. Skilled business analysts also use requirements to drive the design or review of test cases, process change requests, and manage a project’s scope, acceptance, installation and deployment

Accountability:

The Business Analyst is directly accountable to the VP of Operations. The Business Analyst will undergo a yearly performance appraisal.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Lead Role:

• Assisting with the business case

• Planning and monitoring

• Eliciting requirements

• Requirements organization

• Translating and simplifying requirements

• Requirements management and communication

• Requirements analysis

1. Responsibilities:

• Implementing advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data requirements

• Prioritising requirements and create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups

• Mastering strategic business process modelling, traceability and quality management techniques

• Applying best practices for effective communication and problem-solving

Qualifications and Skills:

Becoming a successful business analyst takes core business skills and specialized knowledge that will advance a firm’s objectives, and contribute to its remaining competitiveness in a complex economy. Business analysts are typically required to assess and validate their activities and to determine if a solution has fulfilled the requirements and achieve the business benefits in areas of workflow & customer relationship management.

1. Written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills

1. Understanding of systems engineering concepts

1. The ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis

1. Business case development

1. Modeling techniques and methods

1. Leadership Skills

1. Excellent math and organizational skills

1. Professional, courteous and positive manner

1. Ability to set priorities and manage multiple task functions simultaneously