Business Development Executive

Job Description

About Platform Product

Quality, performance, experimentation, and speed of delivery are all principles at the heart of what we do as a Platform group. We have strong capabilities in areas such as editorial tooling, content delivery, design systems, advertising and commerce, and provide the underlying technology for the digital presence of Condé Nast brands on four continents. Our vision is to additionally invest in areas such as video, subscriptions, membership, and next generation editorial tools.

Teams are encouraged to explore creative ideas to meet the strategic vision, backed by rigorous techniques.

The Role

Condé Nast is seeking an innovative, collaborative, and proven product-management professional. The candidate will develop, maintain, and execute the digital strategy and product roadmap for the most influential media brands at Condé Nast. 

This is a new and exciting role to help develop new commerce platform capabilities globally. Commerce will be an ecosystem of capabilities that cover affiliate, shop and marketplace, order + inventory management, payments & billing, checkout and distribution. The role will be focused on developing and maintaining premier platform commerce products to the benefit of all Condé Nast brands that aim to increase conversion rate, AOV & LTV.

The role will require working collaboratively with several departments, brands and stakeholders and will partner with Condé Nast’s Director of Product in driving best in class digital products across multiple platforms.

Role responsibilities

• Drive product prioritization and product management methodology for the business by working with internal and external stakeholders including Commerce, Editorial, Advertising, and Consumer Marketing

• Successfully address complicated and challenging problems, such as third-party integrations and platform inter-dependencies

• Exposure to the growing trends and use of data driven advertising and data management platforms

• Successfully address complicated and challenging problem sets

• Learn new problems sets quickly and experience applying creative problem solutions

• Project management and multitasking across concurrent projects to deliver on project goal

• Identifying critical issues or roadblocks as well as communication of status out to various stakeholders

• Creating and managing product and project documentation, including additional information gathering or publishing

About you

• Essential - previous experience at a global organisation working across timezones, cultures and product ecosystems.

• Experience with e-commerce systems/payment-based third-party integrations and/or conversion funnels

• Experience with content / media organisations

• Experience working with product, engineering and design teams using Agile / Scrum software development

• Experience working with Confluence, Jira and Google Analytics

• Self-driven, motivated, and ability to drive objectives forward and see projects and initiatives through to completion

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

• Team & Culture: You will be a good team partner and help foster a culture of inclusiveness. In part, this means being a good communicator and a good listener. You are someone who respects the other team member disciplines and encourages discussion around important decisions. 

• You will be working with a global team and need to be accommodative of different time-zones as required

As a Financial Analyst, you will be responsible for driving improvement related to the business metrics. You should be able to quickly understand the matter at hand, gather the relevant data and information from the relevant internal and/or external stakeholders, do the analysis and present a time-bound action-plan to resolve the problem.

• Analysing raw data, performing analytics and making meaningful insights for decision-making purpose
• Handling and integrating large volumes of data
• Automating workflows and building tools to solve business problems
• Building a great camaraderie with internal and external stakeholders

• Opening and developing franchise outlets across East.
• Identifying interested parties, meeting them and convincing them to take franchises.
• Devising ways to increase profitability of franchise.
• Setting up the franchising model.
• Generating and Closing Leads for Franchise Sale.
• Being responsible for expanding the franchising network for the company and effectively managing it.
• Meeting potential franchisees by growing, maintaining, and leveraging the network.
• Researching and building relationships with new & existing franchisees.
• Responsible for Planning, approaching and pitching.
• Identifying potential business deals by contacting potential partners, discovering and exploring opportunities.
• Responsible for Sales forecasting and growth of business.
  
  
  

• Demonstrable industry experience of 2-4 years
• Excellent Communication and Negotiation Skills  
• Good at Decision making 
• Strong Analytical Skills