Business Development Associate

Role & Responsibilities

Vendor Management & Negotiation: Manage vendor relationships, negotiate local rates to meet cost-per-unit targets, and ensure timely delivery of products.

Inventory Monitoring: Track stock levels, share daily reports on low inventory, and ensure minimum order quantities (MOQ) are met.

Purchase Order Coordination: Map/unmap products, raise POs with desired vendors, and monitor negative margins at product level.

Cross-functional Collaboration: Meet regularly with the Business Operations and Growth teams to align on stock availability, sales plans, and product launches.

Payment & Delivery Follow-up: Coordinate with Finance on vendor payments to avoid delays, and ensure smooth vehicle offloading at Distribution Centers (DC).

Vendor Sourcing: Identify and onboard alternate vendors to maintain product availability and address supply gaps.

Stock Management: Monitor put-away status of inventory, manage slow-moving stock, and support sales strategies for excess inventory.

Reporting & Analysis: Provide regular performance updates, including benchmarking new products, sales plans, and launch strategies.

• 6+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Must have experience leading a team of around 15-20 team members in an Agile environment.
• Experience working in multi-geo or offshore environment
• JIRA experience
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
• Proven success in delivering projects within budget and specified timeframes, while ensuring customer satisfaction
• Proven problem solving skills from problem assessment to solution selection
• Ability to identify alternatives and make contingency plans
• Capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to handle multiple projects and assignments
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking, providing options and recommendations relating to resolving issues, mitigating risks, and resolving escalated items.
• CSM (Certified) or PMP (Certified) Good to have

About Us:

At Innovapptive, we are bringing the industrial front-line worker, back-office and assets together.  Our platform is the only patented and “Code-Free” connected worker platform for SAP and IBM Maximo and is disrupting and digitizing archaic, tedious, & labor-intensive paper-based processes for maintenance, operations, & supply chain. The industrial front-line workers are empowered with a suite of highly reconfigurable mobile apps, while the back-office has real-time visibility into the front-line workforce with better planning, scheduling, adoption monitoring and actionable insights. Some of the world’s largest brands such as Newmont Mining, Dominion Nuclear, Hess, Shell, UNICEF, ConocoPhillips, and Reckitt Benckiser are digitally transforming their back-office and front-line industrial worker experiences. We are saving companies millions of dollars by improving their asset uptime, productivity, safety, and talent challenges while delivering jobs better, faster, cheaper and safer. 

We are backed by Tiger Global Management, a Global Marquee Fund with over $30 Billion of Assets Under Management (AUM). Tiger Global Management has a reputation for investing and building some of the world's "Unicorn"​ brands such as Spotify, Netflix, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Peloton, Harry's, Ola, Flipkart, Freshworks and many more!

Our mission is made possible by Innovapptive’s most important asset: our people. We come together through collaboration and ambition in a team-driven culture. Through the success of our product, we have seen monumental growth in our workforce, and we constantly look for exceptional talent to join us. At Innovapptive, you are challenged with dynamic tasks that drive your professional development and career growth. Join us on our journey to deliver an innovative connected worker experience and to empower 350 Million Industrial Front-Line Workers around the world with the ability to truly harness the power of connected worker experience by improving the working life of a front-line worker and the back-office employee. 

The Role

In the Implementation Consultant Role, you will be responsible for 

• Participating in Business Requirement & Solution Design Workshops, Requirements and Fit-Gap Analysis, Customer Demos, Understanding Business impact of user requirements, Acceptance Criteria and expected results and Document Business Requirements in Jira Tool, Create Functional Specification documents, Test data preparation, Test scenario documentation etc.
• Implements the solution design by configuring the Innovapptive Mobile Application products using Innovapptive RACE Configuration engine.
• Make necessary SAP Backend system Base configurations to map into mobile applications.
• Configure customer business processes on Mobile applications to enable the solution.
• Work with ABAP Team for the Development of BADI Enhancements for customer-specific requirements and Effort Estimation
• Work on any bugs or issues for triaging and resolution.
• Prepare the Training documents and customer demos if any during the realization phase.
• Regularly Update and track the issues in Jira and coordinate with other cross-functional teams for resolution.
• Work with the Testing team for FUT
• Work on issue resolutions and support during FUT, SIT, UAT, Go-live and Hyper care.
• Provide Knowledge sharing to the Production support team after Go-live and handover.

If this opportunity excites you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the qualifications: 

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Keep abreast of new Innovapptive features and functionality to provide recommendations for process improvements internally and with customers.
• Work in close coordination with various cross-functional teams to ensure effective project delivery.
• Learn and develop expertise in Innovapptive Mobile application products features, functionalities, and Implementation methodology.
• Ensure to escalate blockers to Innovapptive executives before they become customer escalations.
• Mentor and guide junior consultants in the implementation team.
• Support the Hiring team in recruiting A-level talent to meet our company growth objectives.
• Be on top of implementation activities, closely work with teams in getting any blockers addressed on high priority, keep Jira status up to date, and timely escalation for any support required to avoid project delays.
• Work with passion and contribute value in all activities performed.
• Follow organizational guidelines and processes.
• Identify opportunities for continual improvement and changes to drive efficiencies including client satisfaction with effective project execution.
• Ensure defect-free implementation by doing the right things right the first time, every time, by following best practices and carrying a truly professional consulting attitude and aptitude.
• Work with Product Managers, Product Engineers and Professional Services to ensure the bug fixes and root cause analyses and resolutions are conducted in a timely and efficient manner and all implementation issues are addressed promptly

What You Bring to the Team:

• 3+ years of total experience
• 2+ years of relevant Implementation experience in SAP MM
• Excellent Communication skills
• Client interaction and documentation skills
• Have been an Individual contributor to SAP Implementation and support projects.
• Comes with experience in SAP Configuration, Org structure, Master data, Transactional data, Issue analysis and resolution, Deep understanding of the Business process and integration aspects across the above SAP modules.
• Conversant with SAP Transactions, Programs, Tables, Function modules, Reports etc.
• Have good experience in writing Functional specifications for custom developments and have worked closely with ABAP developers in BADI Enhancements for custom requirements.
• Have good experience in writing test scenarios for different business processes and creating test data. Performing FUT.
• Triaging defects identified during FUT, SIT, UAT, and HC and fixing the issues.
• Working with cross-functional teams where the resolution needs to come from other teams.
• Sensitive to customer delivery timelines, the importance of proactive action and time reaching out to leadership and other teams for help, if any is required.
• Experience in working with various tools for issue recording and tracking; Change request management, Testing tools, 3rd party systems integration etc.
• Passion to learn new skills to be able to work productively and efficiently.
• Flexibility to stretch on work timing when required to meet project delivery deadlines.
• Willingness to help other team members when required.
• Demonstrated track record as a strategic thinker, creative problem solver and solutions provider.
• Ability and desire to adapt to a fast-paced environment with changing customer needs, technology requirements and strategic direction with ease.
• Status reporting to the project manager on the deliverables, risks, issues, actions etc.
• Perform duties and make decisions with patience and tact under frequent time pressures.
• SAP Certification in SAP ECC MM, WM or SAP S4 HANA MM or WM would be an Advantage.

What We Offer:

• A positive, open, and highly-innovative environment and team
• Entrepreneurial spirit with unlimited opportunity to grow
• Opportunity to work with leading global brands on exciting and impactful projects
• Competitive Base Pay
• Best of plan on Vacation & Paid Time Off.
• Provision of Medical Insurance for family - self, dependent, spouse, dependent children, parents/parent-in-laws
• Paid Maternity and Paternity leave
• Bi-annual reviews to ensure transparency and promote a high-performance culture
• OKR Driven Performance Development Environment
• Learning & Development - access to a wide range of e-Learning courses (technical, Product, Process, etc.,)
• A host of Interest Groups/Clubs for Book Reading, Toastmasters, Sports - Cricket, Volleyball, Throw-ball, Badminton, TT, Music

Innovapptive does not accept and will not review unsolicited resumes from search firms.

Innovapptive is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.

• PL ownership: Drive and ensure 100% achievement of the targeted sales numbers of the categories. 
• Ensure Profitability by negotiating the best category margins, securing marketing support from brands, and focusing on delivering the budgeted top-line and bottom-line.
• Assortment planning: Ensure we have a competitive catalog compared to other players across brands and sub-categories globally. 
• Customer Experience: Anticipate and create solutions for customer pain points. Should be able to resolve customer escalations and deliver on the expected NPS for the category. 
• Category marketing: Create weekly, monthly, and quarterly calendars  Have joint marketing plans signed off with partner brands, execute the plan in coordination with the internal team
• Operational efficiency: Work with cross-functional teams like CS, Finance, Sales to ensure a smooth functioning system and to be able to deliver on the required set of parameters measured across each function

1. 5-10 years of experience in global category roles, preferably digital categories like gift cards, perks, deals, experiences, loans, insurance, merchandise etc. 
2. Hands-on in Sales, Operations, Catalog and Category Management.
3. Strong analytical aptitude in problem-solving, multi-tasker, critical thinker, and a tactical executioner with a proven track record of finding solutions to business problems.
4. Good communication and team management skills. 
5. Engineering + MBA from reputed colleges would be preferred.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment will enable you to juggle between concepts yet maintain the quality of content, interact, share your ideas, and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Plum.

• Measure the sales effectiveness efforts using data science/app/digital nudges.
• Should be able to work on the clickstream data
• Should be well versed and willing to work hands-on various Machine Learning techniques

Skills

• Ability to lead a team of 5-6 members.
• Ability to work with large data sets and present conclusions to key stakeholders.
• Develop a clear understanding of the client’s business issue to inform the best approach to the problem.
• Root-cause analysis
• Define data requirements for creating a model and understand the business problem
• Clean, aggregate, analyze, interpret data and carry out quality analysis of it
• Set up data for predictive/prescriptive analysis
• Development of AI/ML models or statistical/econometric models.
• Working along with the team members
• Looking for insight and creating a presentation to demonstrate these insights
• Supporting development and maintenance of proprietary marketing techniques and other knowledge development projects.