Business Development

Position: IT Sales Manager

Academic Background: B com/ BA / B. Tech. (Electronics/ IT) / MBA or an equivalent recognized diploma in IT engineering

Experience: 6+Years

Technical Domain Knowledge:

• Exposure/ Information/ Comfort on IT.
• New technologies, vendors, and competitors operating in the vertical
• Cutting-edge sales and customer relationship management concepts across segments.

Professional skills (Functional):

• Customer Focus
• Account Mapping
• Customer needs understanding
• Persuasion & Negotiation skills
• Relationship Management
• Customer Retention
• Service focus

Responsibilities:

· Prepare periodic reports, such as summaries and dashboards, for the senior management, that provide Revenue and Resource Utilization pipeline, and present current status on various dimensions such as project management, execution, quality of delivery, process compliance and project profitability.

· Executing various revenue and non-revenue related contracts, and renewing those well in time. Tracking actual v/s the targets on weekly basis, and preparing specific Project wise Profitability Reports.

· Provide inputs on revenue comparison and arriving at a benchmark.

· Report revenue leakage by tracking non-billed hours put in by the resources in each project.

· Reviewing the rates and renewing them based on the inputs received from the manager.

· Collaborate closely with auditors, internal engineering and functional teams to keep the organization ready for audits through proper planning, internal audits and keeping evidences ready, and finally getting the organization audited from external agencies.

· Drive status meeting with the relevant stakeholders, leaders and mangers to check the status of various goals and initiate action through right channel wherever it is needed.

· Participate in Project Retrospective Meetings and record action items, and ensure that they get closed in timely manner.

· Maintain up-to-date documents related to the tasks managed by self.

Essential Skills (Technical):

· Excellent written and oral communication skills.

· Hands on experience in creating procedural documents and reports.

· Sound knowledge of business operations such as revenue, profitability, utilization of resources.

· Exposure to working with Senior Management team, and understanding their vision as well as way of working.

· Hands on experience in tools, such as MS Excel, Power-point, MS Word, Google Sheets, Docs, and One Drive to create various reports, documents and presentations.

· Exposure to document management systems.

Essential Skills (Leadership):

· Self-motivated, and have ability to manage and motivate the teams.

· Ability to drive the function and achieve the goal.

· Sense of ownership.

· Flair for data collection, maintenance and ability to draw conclusions from a maze of data points, and present it in a right way.

· Drive the communication in a positive and result oriented way.

· Getting the support from people not directly reporting and resolving the conflicting goals in a professional way, and work as a mediator wherever required. Great interpersonal skills.

· An eagle’s eye for detail.

· Focus on organization, rather than on any individual, from goals and work perspective.

Responsible for end to end ownership of project deliverables and regular interactions with the clients to provide project status updates Work on the estimations for a given project Identify the risks and provide a mitigation plan promptly Responsible for generating reports, invoice and billing People responsibilities include ensuring optimal retention of talent and improving the performance of team members through continuous feedback Timely reporting of the projects to the client and management

Responsibilities include:

• Coordination and completion of projects on time within budget and scope. 
• Oversee all aspects of projects. Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, and monitor, and summarize the progress of the project. 
• Prepare reports for clients and internal stakeholders regarding the status of the project. 
• Work on the estimations for a given project. 
• Identify the risks and provide a mitigation plan promptly. 
• Generation of reports, invoices, and billing. 
• People's Management includes ensuring optimal retention of talent and improving the performance of team members through continuous feedback.
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Experience and Expertise: 

• Overall 7-12 years of experience and at least 4 years of project delivery management experience. 
• Should have worked on SaaS products and have experience in handling a team (at least 10-15). 
• Sound knowledge of SDLC, and quality process with respect to delivery management.
• Experience in Mobile application development and programming knowledge is a plus.
• Good presentation skills, Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to interact with customers at all levels

We are looking to employ a driven and experienced area sales manager to increase sales within an assigned geographical area and guide a team of field sales representatives. The area sales manager's responsibilities include delivering presentations to potential and existing customers, evaluating the performance of the sales team, and preparing concise sales reports

Purpose of the Role

To design and implement the Peak AI System - a new system of intelligence that allows companies to quickly harness the power of AI.

The Opportunity 

Peak is a Decision Intelligence company - we are on a mission to help organisations use AI to make great commercial decisions, all the time. Just as importantly, we are also focused on building an amazing company - one where we truly value our people & culture, and strive to make an amazing and diverse place to work. Our recent Best Companies award & 3 star accreditation for being one of the top companies to work for is a testament to this.

We have ambitious plans over the coming years; to launch and lead a new category of technology (Decision Intelligence), expand our operations and create the best working culture possible. This is a great time to join Peak and the Engineering team, as we start the next stage of our global growth.

The Role

Based in Jaipur or Pune, you will be working in a collaborative team on cutting edge technologies in a supportive and dynamic environment. Ultimately you are responsible for building the CODI and on-boarding new clients - this involves:

• Developing a good understanding of the solutions which Peak delivers, and how these link to Peak’s overall strategy.
• Making suggestions towards shaping the strategy for a feature and engineering design.
• Managing own workload and usually delivering unsupervised. Accountable for their own workstream or the work of a small team.  
• Understanding Engineering priorities and is able to focus on these, helping others to remain focussed too
• Acting as the Lead Engineer on a project. Helps ensure others follow Peak processes, such as release and version control.
• An active member of the team, through useful contributions to projects and in team meetings.
• Supervising others. Deputising for a Lead and/or support them with tasks. Mentoring new joiners/interns and Masters students. Sharing knowledge and learnings with the team.

Required Skills and Experience

We are building a team of world class engineers in Jaipur / Pune, essentially we are looking for bright, talented engineers looking to work at the cutting edge of practical AI.

• Acquired strong proven professional programming experience.
• Strong command of Algorithms, Data structures, Design patterns, and Product Architectural Design.
• Good understanding of DevOps, Cloud technologies, CI/CD, Serverless and Docker, preferable AWS 
• Proven track record and expert in one of the field - DevOps/Frontend/Backend
• Excellent coding and debugging skills in any language with command on any one programming paradigm, preferred Javascript/Python/Go
• Experience with at least one of the Database systems - RDBMS and NoSQL
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• A naturally inquisitive and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong experience in using AGILE or SCRUM techniques to build quality software.
• Advantage: experience in React js, AWS, Nodejs, Golang, Apache Spark, ETL tool, data integration system, certification in AWS, worked in a Product company and involved in making it from scratch, Good communication skills, open-source contributions, proven competitive coding pro

As well as doing great work we have created an award-winning, fun and exciting workplace that people love to be, we are looking for people to join us who share our values and are:

• Open - Always up for new ideas and able to take and give feedback in a positive way.
• Driven - sets high goals, doesn’t give up, and make sacrifices to ensure that their job gets done on time and meets/exceeds expectations.
• Curious - Aware of new technologies and uses them to make new improvements in the Engineering ecosystem.
• Smart - Innovative and thinks out of the box, in difficult situations finds a way to succeed no matter what 
• Responsible - takes ownership of tasks given and has a strong work ethic.

About Peak

In an age when becoming AI and data-driven is one of the most important things businesses must do, it can also be one of the most challenging. That’s where Peak comes in; our CODI system sits at the heart of our client’s businesses, enabling the rapid unification, modelling and - most importantly - use of data - helping decision makers make great commercial decisions, powered by AI. All supported by our world-class data science team.

Founded in 2014, Peak has grown rapidly, in line with the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies, winning numerous awards and attracted significant funding to support the company’s ongoing investment in machine learning and AI technologies. All to further our mission to become the world’s leading AI System business.

Headquartered in Manchester, Peak also has offices in London, Edinburgh, Jaipur and Brisbane. Our clients include some of the world's leading retailers, manufacturers and well-known brands alongside highly innovative and tech-savvy businesses. Peak is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, and holds Machine Learning Competency and Retail Competency status.