Business Development Associate

Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst/ERP Functional Consultant to work directly with clients, gathering and validating business requirements and mapping them to Odoo ERP functionalities. The role involves conducting GAP analyses, configuring Odoo applications, and delivering user training both remotely and on-site. The consultant will participate in project meetings, track deliverables, and provide ongoing support and guidance on best practices for using Odoo ERP effectively.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide Odoo ERP Functional Consulting expertise utilizing industry experience, strong knowledge of various business domains, business analysis, best practices, and a pragmatic mindset to facilitate our customer’s most complex business requirements.
• Prepare a detailed scope of work(SOW) resulting from personalization sessions to our customers in the pre-sales phase to provide proposed solutions for the customer’s business requirements.
• Responsible for identifying business requirements, requirements management, functional design, system analysis, GAP analysis, end-user training, Preparing BRD, prototyping, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), testing, defining support procedures, and leading workstreams implementations and supporting end-to-end Odoo ERP implementations.
• Provide Odoo ERP applications solutions to an exclusive range of customers across high profile assignments.
• Provide architectural direction and guidance to all staff from pre-sales through the delivery cycle specifically for the use of the Odoo ERP Business Applications.
• Design and define customizations and integration requirements in collaboration with Application Developers (Technical Team) for delivering solutions to automate business processes.
• Manage the full life cycle of Odoo ERP Implementation and Testing phases.
• Develop solution design from what is available in Odoo as a standard feature(s) and lead the customer throughout the implementation and support phases.
• Assist customers maximize strategic business value from Emipro custom business solutions to provide them with a vision of their end state solution and roadmap.
• Evaluate customer’s business requirements, needs, and objectives and convert the same to company processes, solutions, and modules being implemented.
• Manage all aspects of the configuration process for the customer from configuration through to acceptance and sign-off.
• Supply ERP functional consulting and training services at customer sites upon as and when required by Emipro.
• Create, review, and contribute towards implementation deliverables such as functional specifications, test cases, technical solution/ design, standard operating procedures, etc. 
• Interact with the key end-users and business owners to map applications to standard business processes and conduct a gap analysis.
• Ensure that the system accurately meets the defined expectations of the business, proper testing is implemented, and performance and security requirements are closely monitored by working with the Project & Product team of Emipro.
• Troubleshoot issues that arise during configuration sessions.
• Translate business requirements to our technical team members and translate technology solutions from our technical team to the customers.
• Create functional requirements as an input to application design.
• Conduct Cut-over, Go-Live processes, and assists the technical staff by testing the behaviour of the system.
• Supervise, Mentor, and Train junior consultants and business analysts on application and implementation methodology.
• Conduct business process mapping and requirements gathering sessions (workshops) with new customers to determine configuration requirements both on-site and remote.
• Document the settings/configurations and prepare proper guidelines that allow other consultants to do further changes or repairs with due efforts. 
• Ensure proper training is given to the end-users and that the new system is usable, performing appropriately and the business flow is complete and correct.

Required Skills

• Minimum 3+ years of relevant work experience in any of the famous ERP systems like Odoo, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, etc.
• Strong knowledge in business domains like Sales, Purchase, Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Procurement, Wholesale Industry, Services or Retails, etc.
• Strong business judgement and common sense
• Master in Product Demonstrations
• The initiative, creativity, and a passion to deliver results that make a difference
• Well-rounded individual with varied interests and experience
• Excellent communication (verbal, written, and presentation) and interpersonal skills (outgoing and personable)
• Ability to do multi-task, prioritise and manage time effectively
• Proven experience of working in Migration Projects
• High Focus on Customer Service and is passionate about ensuring customer requirements are met.
• Must have a natural analytical way of thinking and be able to explain difficult concepts to non-technical users.
• Team leading or people management experience can be added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
• Responsible for the product development and maintenance
• Analyze and resolve performance bottlenecks

Requirements

• 3+ Years of experience in Web Application Development
• Should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks
• Expert in Programming using Angular 8/10/11, Web API
• Should have knowledge in Relational and Non-Relational databases (NO SQL).
• Strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies – Agile/Scrum
• Very good development skills in front end technologies/javascript.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, Design Concepts & Unit Testing
• Good understanding of Web Security Concepts

Primary roles and responsibilities -

• Manage multiple interconnected projects, ensuring program goals are reached
• Develop and manage scope of the projects, deadlines and activities for projects and be accountable for delivering against established business goals/objectives
• Strategize and implement key program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives
• Identify key resource requirements from cross-functional teams and external vendors
• Assume responsibility for the program’s people and vendors
• Build and execute projects that cut across various aspects of Business
• Work cross functionally to help influence change in getting ideas executed
• Build and lead communication plan and develop a reinforcement strategy across the organization
• Manage all aspects of the implementation including the human and cultural elements, and reinforcing collaboration
• Lead and direct different cross-functional programs and projects of varied sizes and types
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques-
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation-
• Help people to design and model solutions for innovation .
• Coordinate all cross-functional activities, collaborate with leaders in varied areas on planning and execution
• Provide the skill and structure required to identify problems and improvement opportunities

• Experienced with MS office - Excel, Word and PPT
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Should understand the product development process - to enable projects to be converted into Products
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills, written and verbal

 What you need to have:

• Be a passionate advocate for customers and help ensure thorough and intuitive customer journeys.
• Targeting customers with better customer segmentation, hypotheses, testing with experiments, campaign analytics, communication process ,automation, and competitive benchmarking.
• Working closely with Product, Analytics, Business and Design teams
• Owning one or more key traffic channels for a category (Personal Loans,
• Home Loans, Health Insurance and Mutual Funds) and build the optimum funnel for the business.
• Conceptualize, design and execute initiatives through extensive experiments.
• Work on new product, features and scheme launches, and making the successful by targeting customers through various channels
• Analyse traffic patterns and optimize for seasonality, relevance, and selection
• Regularly develop, test and analyse new tactics that sell products across all categories and increase conversion rates, documenting the results and sharing best practices with the team
• Own projects with considerable scope and/or complexity with significant impact on customer experience

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 1-3 years of experience in roles requiring high analytical skills
• Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements
• Experience in making data-driven decisions, developing customer insights from data and creating strategies to improve conversion and sales.
• Understanding of product funnel and journeys.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively in reviews and meetings