Business Development Associate

    Working knowledge (including design and configuration) of any TMS application e.g. ION-IT2, Oracle Treasury, SAP TRM, etc.

2.      Should have completed at least 4 years in any TMS IT implementation 

3.      Strong experience with corporate funding, treasury, and related accounting functions. 

4.      Experience in business transformation with adapting existing systems to new businesses and strategies 

5.      Strong academic background – An excellent degree from a top-tier university is required in a subject that demonstrates the need for logical thinking, precise understanding, and clear articulation

Attributes:

·       Independent delivery and ownership-focused

·       End-to-end process mindset

·       Able to self-manage, collaborate, and regularly prioritize and manage activities across multiple workstreams

·       Good communicator, engaging, and able to work with offshore teams across various time zones

·        Excellent written and verbal communication skills

·       Ability to make data-driven decisions & thrive in a fast-paced environment

Key Responsibilities:

Accountable for functionally supporting Trafigura’s IT deliverables for the TMS application. Including;

6.      Ensuring TMS application supports the agreed business requirements.

7.      Review and challenge all requirements/change requests and specifications including:

1.      Functional Requirements

1.      Application functions

2.      Reporting functions

2.      Application Interfaces

3.      Operational control activities

4.      Audit requirements

8.      Documenting the implementation specifications/configurations, and preparing a knowledge base for the application.

9.      Where required, administering, the configuration of the TMS.

10. Develop (review if required) test scenarios and test cases and support end-users with testing

11. Support all type of issue resolution with the respective application owners

12. Identify areas of improvement, research best practices, and offer guidance and recommendations for process changes and potential solutions

Core Responsibilities :

● Be able to create a pipeline of leads based on the target parameters set by the organization, conduct ongoing market research to identify opportunities and map prospects, identify decision makers and effectively reach-out to them.

● Identify business opportunities by prospecting / evaluating contactee’s position in the industry; researching and analyzing sales options.

● Learn how Sigma Infosolutions works from the ground up and build the foundation for your career with us;

● Be the first point of contact for the company, responsible for developing prospects

● Identify key players, researching and obtaining business requirements, and presenting solutions to begin sales cycle

● Profile strategic accounts identifying key individuals, researching and obtaining business requirements and presenting solutions to start the sales cycle

● Set appointments for Sigma Infosolutions sales team when a lead reaches a qualified stage leading to hand-off to sales teams

● Research your target companies and prepare executive summaries to turn your Sales Executive into a guru ahead of their calls;

● Drive attendance for webinars and live seminars, set meetings for conferences

● Collaborate with sales and marketing team members on strategic sales approach

● Ensure successful follow through of sales cycle by maintaining accurate activity and lead qualification information in CRM application

● Good understanding of tools and processes for market research and lead generation through Email Campaigns, LinkedIn, Cold calling etc.

● Follows up and maintains relationships with new leads and existing potentials by providing support, information, and guidance; researching and recommending new opportunities.

● Collate, Manage and generate report day-to-day data related to prospects,

opportunities, proposals, etc. using formats and tools prescribed by the team.

● Market Company’s posts on Social Media Platforms & Competition research about the services being offered by the company

● Experience in IT services sales for the International Market with preference to USA

● He/She should be highly self-motivated, target driven and able to work independently

Requirements / Skills / Need to have:

● 6+ years of successful experience in telemarketing, preferably in IT solutions / services (Candidates with experience in either ecommerce / fintech solutions will be preferred)

● Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written, coupled with excellent listening skills and a positive and energetic phone presence

● Demonstrated success in prospecting through Sales Navigator - LinkedIn, Personalised emails, Emailer Campaigns

● Highly organized with good time management skills.

● Strong attention to detail and Great active-listening skills.

● Ability to maintain a positive attitude in the face of rejection or criticism.

● Experience collaborating with internal and cross-functional teams.

● Extremely self-motivated with a diligent work ethic

● Great number sense and mathematical ability.

● Strong desire and ability to move up within the sales vertical of the organization

● High level of integrity and strong commitment to building a successful company

● Ability to work independently as well as part of a team in a fast-paced environment

● Adept computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Office

● Experience with CRM applications like ZOHO, Hubspot or Salesforce

● Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred, high school diploma or equivalent required

● Aptitude to manage numerous requests and time demands concurrently, while achieving production goals from assigned territory or set of accounts

● Promotes a strong sense of urgency for reaching goals and key deliverables. Acts without being told what to do. Brings new ideas to the company

● Contributes fully to the team effort and plays an integral part in the smooth running of teams without necessarily taking the lead

● Drive, Grit, Team Oriented: strong desire to compete and win

● BA/BS/MBA degree or relevant experience

● Experience in planning, call control, opportunity qualification, account development

● Excellent telephone presence with demonstrated skills including the ability to engage in meaningful conversations

● Must be an excellent problem-solver and willing to collaborate in an exceedingly competitive environment

• Collaborate with internal teams and the Solution Architect to discuss software design and architecture and best practices.
• Learn & work on POC's of trending technology along with the Solution Architect

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Ensures the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards
• Contribute development activities into various projects
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Should be able to identify, categorize, parse out, articulate and fix problems that occur in applications
• Should understand concept of iterative development and leverage DevOps tools for CI & CD
• Form strong working relationships with your peers and across the team
• Mentoring and educating less experienced team members in related technologies using methods such as informal training, pair programming etc
• Project Participation

• Early adoption of trending technologies
• Proactive communication/soft skills

• Deep knowledge of OOPS, and RESTful API services.
• Experience using well-known JavaScript frameworks and libraries, such as React / Angular / Vue etc.
• Deep expertise in one or more of the following technologies - PHP, NodeJS, .NET
• Knowledge of DevOps (Containerization / Jenkins Pipeline, etc.)
• Ability to write and high quality and secure code and understand performance issues
• Experience with database systems, with knowledge of SQL and NoSQL stores (e.g., MySQL, Oracle / MongoDB, SQL Server, etc.)
• Experience on cloud related technologies (AWS / Azure) could be add-on.
• Proficient in multiple stacks of technologies / systems / tools and focus on building depth and breadth of skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to build a work plan or parts of a work plan, as applicable for role
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.

• Development - .NET Core | PHP | HTML5/CSS | Angular | React | VueJS
• DevOps - GIT, Jenkins
• Cloud – AWS | Azure
• Database – Oracle | Mongo DB | MSSQL | MySQL | PostGreSQL

• Team Player
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align organization on decisions
• Ability to communicate well in English
• Sound problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply
• Passionate about technology and excited about the impact of emerging/disruptive technologies
• Open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge skillset
• Creating a positive environment within the team
• Strong team player and be a technical lead for the team.
• Challenge the status quo

Responsibilities:

• Crawl the internet/intranet for issues people are facing and convert them in to stuctured data that would be consumed downstream.
• Familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from analysis to deployment.
• Comply with coding standards and technical design.
• Adapts structured coding styles for easy review, testing, and maintainability of the code.
• Integrate the developed functionality and/or component into a fully functional system.
• Ensure unit and integration level verification plans are in place and adheres to the great quality of code at all times.
• Actively participate in troubleshooting, debugging and updating current live system.
• Verify user feedback in making the system more stable and easy.
• Work closely with analysts, designers, and other peer developers.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, Persistence, Threading.
• Good understanding of version control system (GIT).
• Knowledgeable in data structures and algorithms.
• A background in Engineering with sound oral and written communication skills.
• 6+ years of experience working on the server-side.
• Exposure to API designing, scalable architecture, and thorough understanding of systems.
• Great database modeling skills.
• Working knowledge of Databases, both relational (such as PostgreSQL) and in-memory database (such as Redis).
• Good understanding of web stack and how all the pieces fit together.
• Experience with open-source projects.
• Experience in designing interactive applications.