Business Development Executive

**Key Responsibilities:**

*Operations:*

• Plan, schedule, and execute orders as per established processes and timelines, coordinating with junior Merchants and Surat and Mill incharges for daily updates.
• Track and manage product approvals at various stages, ensuring product specifications align with client requirements for an accuracy rate of 95% or higher.
• Oversee timely receipt of payments from clients, maintaining a 100% on-time payment rate.
• Manage product sampling and sourcing operations, ensuring over 95% of samples are received within stipulated deadlines.
• Administer all correspondence through emails, ensuring 100% accountability and traceability of communication.
• Confirm that all necessary approvals are physically received before order execution, maintaining 100% compliance.
• Collaborate closely with the production team to guarantee smooth order execution.
• Conduct regular market research to stay updated with industry trends and competitor offerings, using the insights to inform operational strategies.
• Participate in key industry events to establish relationships and showcase our offerings.
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Our client is India’s first non- preservative brand for natural aroma products. Their offerings include skincare, haircare, body care, bath salts, carrier oils, massage oils, essential oils, handmade soaps, aroma diffusers, foot care and others. All their spa and aromatherapy products are a combination of the best of ingredients that are locally sourced from the freshest and purest sustainable resources. This homegrown D2C startup also has an impressive B2B portfolio and has tied up with well known brands for corporate gifting solutions and signature scents.

It sells its products through its own website, prominent retail stores and pharmacies as well as all the leading ecommerce portals. It has also stepped into the international market and has a strong overseas presence.

Founded by alumni of Stanford University Graduate School of Business and ISB, Hyderabad, this ISO certified company is indeed revolutionizing beauty care by harmonizing body, mind and soul.

As a Sr Manager - Marketplaces, you will be responsible for managing the ecommerce business on key accounts like Amazon, Flipkart or International Business on Amazon in USA and UAE. (Allocation of accounts based on business/ opportunity/ experience)

What you will do:

• Conducting, operating and achieving the business on key account with sales plan to achieve budgeted numbers
• Connecting/ coordinating with Account/ Category Managers of the key account/ Marketplaces
• Ensuring strong healthy relationship with the account team to drive business
• Understanding price sensitivity and managing pricing, ensuring there is price parity as per the policy
• Creating and managing ads, evaluating which ads are working and optimising the same to achieve
• Managing inventory, optimizing content for listings, listing hygiene as per platform standards/guidelines
• Inventory planning and management aligned with sales and marketing plan, focussing on top- sellers, to improve inventory turn and optimised discounting
• Ensuring our top-sellers are in category/ sub-category sales ranks with good visibility and discoverability
• Managing and tracking payments from the partner websites, reconciliation and ensuring there is no variance in the same
• Managing brand reputation through reviews/ ratings/ feedback on the account
• Constantly tracking competitor brands and product, comparative category share to be tracked and working on increasing it
• Using all the tools/ services available on the account that can help in increasing our customer base

What you need to have:

• Graduation is a must.
• Minimum 2-3 years experience in beauty and personal care as in Category(FMCG), Merchandising, KAM role or Business Manager Role on the E-commerce platform
• Experience in a highly analytical, results-oriented environment. (OKR’s). (Plan your work ; work on your plan)
• Proven operational skills and demonstrated ability to manage the business “by the numbers”. Must be metrics-driven.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment with business on mind
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills and the ability to express thoughts logically and succinctly
• Demonstrated active listening skills, highly consultative and solutions-oriented.
• Ability to comprehend questions and ask the right people
• Advanced IT literacy especially in Microsoft Office applications.
• Proficiency in MS excel
• Track record of managing and troubleshooting technical, compliance and business problems
• Strong process definition and optimization skills
• Proven ability to define effective, efficient and scalable processes and drive continuous improvement through root cause identification and defect elimination in consumer experience, business process, product visibility
• Attention to detail and capability to work on multiple projects in parallel
• Easy with numbers and calculations, Ad account management is integral part of growth managers
• Experience with e-commerce, retail, would be an advantage
• Engineering Student (Drop outs also welcome)
• Excellent Communication Skills (Written/ Verbal)
• Strong sense of urgency ability to manage details and multiple tasks while responding to changing priorities and feedback
• A hands-on self-starter, with a can-do positive attitude, willing to roll up their sleeves to do whatever it takes to get the job done, and a strong work ethic will also be essential
• Relationship management: Managing team and working with external and internal stakeholders
• Managing Expectations: Can define Business ASK’s clearly (Number Specific)
• Negotiation skill for getting better visibility on Amazon, Flipkart and like portals (free and paid both)
• Marketing to Operation mindset (Size the Opportunity and how will you Seize the same)

Desired Candidate Profile

  Write and post technical job descriptions 

  Parse specialized skills and qualifications to screen IT resumes 

  Perform pre-screening calls to analyze applicants’ abilities 

  Interview candidates combining various methods (e.g. structured interviews, technical assessments and behavioral questions) 

  Coordinate with IT team leaders to forecast department goals and hiring needs 

  Craft and send personalized recruiting emails with current job openings to passive candidates 

  Participate in tech conferences and meetups to network with IT professionals 

  Compose job offer letters 

  Onboard new hires  

At Neurosensum we are committed to make customer feedback more actionable. We have developed a platform called SurveySensum which breaks the conventional market research turnaround time. 

SurveySensum is becoming a great tool to not only capture the feedbacks but also to extract some useful insights with the quick workflow setups and dashboards. We have more than 7 channels through which we can collect the feedbacks. This makes us challenge the conventional software development design principles. The team likes to grind and helps each other to lift in tough situations. 

Day to day responsibilities include:

1. Work on the deployment of code via Bitbucket, AWS CodeDeploy and manual
2. Work on Linux/Unix OS and Multi tech application patching
3. Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, and hotfixes on servers.
4. Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
5. Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
6. Easing developers’ life so that they can focus on the business logic rather than deploying and maintaining it. 
7. Managing release of the sprint. 
8. Educating team of the best practices.
9. Finding ways to avoid human error and save time by automating the processes using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bitbucket pipelines, CodeDeploy, scripting
10. Implementing cost effective measure on cloud and minimizing existing costs.

Skills and prerequisites

1. OOPS knowledge
2. Problem solving nature
3. Willing to do the R&D
4. Works with the team and support their queries patiently 
5. Bringing new things on the table - staying updated 
6. Pushing solution above a problem. 
7. Willing to learn and experiment
8. Techie at heart
9. Git basics
10. Basic AWS or any cloud platform – creating and managing ec2, lambdas, IAM, S3 etc
11. Basic Linux handling 
12. Docker and orchestration (Great to have)
13. Scripting – python (preferably)/bash

Job Responsibities:

Junior Quality Assurance (QA) engineer role and responsibility includes:

• Understanding the product requirement.
• Develop use cases and test cases
• Execute functional and regression testing (It also includes uncovering the bugs early in the product life cycle by doing manual and automated tests to ensure product quality)
• You are responsible for conducting various levels of testing before product launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client needs while being cost-effective.
• You will also review software requirements and track quality assurance metrics.

Details

• Location – Pune
• Reporting to – Sr. QA Manager
• Working closely with Product Manager and CTO

Educational Background:

• Engineering Graduate

Professional Experience:

• 5-8 Years of QA experience

Tech Skills:

• Understanding of basic testing principles – Black Box and White Box Testing
• Document and execute test cases for Black and White box testing.
• Execute testing tasks and report status and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Knowledge of testing with multiple browsers – IE, FF and Chrome
• Document defects and ensure verification of resolutions
• Work collaboratively with the development team during all stages of projects to provide in process testing results.

• Knowledge of manual testing
• Knowledge of JavaScript and VBScript
• Exposure to automated testing tools like Selenium, WaitiN, JMeter
• Basic SQL knowledge – writing SELECT queries, INSERT and UPDATE statements etc.

Other Skills:

• Good listener
• Confident approach
• Strong problem-solving skill
• Highly proficient with MS Office
• Ability to structure processes and lay down the foundation for a department

Personality and attitude traits:

• Passionate about work – We like people who like to work, and want their work to mean something
• Self-starter and motivator – We do not believe in monitoring or tracking team members
• Eager and quick to learn – If you are not excited to learn new things, then tech companies are not for you
• Individual contributor – We are a small team, and everyone has hands on contribution
• Start-up savvy