Business Development Executive

About the Company

India's most iconic Italian dining brand is expanding into the FMCG sector with an artisanal gourmet brand offering fresh pasta, sauces, cheeses, and more. After decades of success in Italian cuisine across India and overseas, this venture brings restaurant-quality products into homes with sophistication, authenticity, and quality at its core.

Job Description

We’re seeking a driven and detail-oriented Sales Manager to lead FMCG expansion across Modern Trade, Quick Commerce, HoReCa, and E-commerce (Amazon) channels. The ideal candidate will combine strong sales acumen with operational discipline, brand understanding, and team leadership to drive growth and profitability across verticals.

Key Responsibilities

Sales & Business Development

• Develop and execute sales strategies across Modern Trade, Quick Commerce, HoReCa, and E-commerce channels.
• Drive Quick Commerce tie-ups (Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart, etc.) ensuring consistent fill rates, visibility, and on-time delivery.
• Expand and manage Modern Trade business – new tie-ups, branding opportunities, and store-level execution.
• Acquire and manage HoReCa accounts, ensuring strong partnerships and growth.
• Explore and onboard new retail store tie-ups and distributors to strengthen reach and market penetration.
• Maintain vertical-wise P&L accountability, ensuring profitability across all sales channels.
• Monitor and reconcile payment cycles as per company policy.

E-Commerce & Brand Coordination

• Oversee Amazon listings and catalog management, ensuring products are correctly priced, described, and optimized.
• Maintain online hygiene – accurate inventory, images, descriptions, ratings, and timely customer query responses.
• Coordinate with marketing for creatives, offers, product launches, and campaign rollouts.
• Identify and execute branding opportunities within partner stores and online marketplaces.

Team & Operations

• Conduct regular store and market visits to ensure visibility, placement, and compliance.
• Train, mentor, and develop the sales and promoter team to enhance performance and product knowledge.
• Maintain strong vendor relationships and ensure timely supply and collections.
• Collaborate with operations for smooth delivery logistics and minimal wastage.
• Provide market insights, competitor analysis, and category feedback to guide business strategy.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required; MBA / Master’s in Marketing preferred.
• 5–7 years of FMCG (Food) sales experience — experience in Modern Trade / E-commerce / Quick Commerce / HoReCa is essential.
• Strong leadership and team-building capabilities.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills.
• Hands-on experience in Amazon / online retail operations preferred.
• Analytical mindset with sound knowledge of market trends, pricing, and brand visibility strategies

Role & Responsibilities:

• Owning offline/retail P&L
• Identifying potential locations for expansion following the company’s expansion strategy
• Liaising with various agencies in the space search
• Carrying out a detailed feasibility study on chosen locations
• Negotiation with the malls/agencies and finalization of related documents & pricing.
• Creating & implementing the organization chart for the offline/retail function
• Collaboration with the Marketing team and VM for In-store marketing/promotions and for external ATL/BTL activities
• Generates ideas about future retail activities to ensure a cutting-edge strategy; maintains up-to-date knowledge of the marketplace, competitors, and trends
• Takes a lead role in building a strong sales management culture with the operations team; spends time coaching store managers, identifying skills and opportunities for development; provides advice and guidance on Store manager issues when needed.
• Maintains and constantly develops innovative and cost-effective stock generation; monitors stock weekly to achieve bottom-line sales budget against monthly targets
• Implementation of ERP and other Technology resources for effective Business Decision Making

Expected skill sets:

• Experience of 12 -14 years with established brand(s) in the Lifestyle Retail category.
• Critical experience in Sales and/or Retail Operations is a must
• Should have worked across the key retail formats viz EBO, LFS, and MBO.
• Experienced in managing relationships at a senior level and managing a diverse (in terms of skill base and experience) team of people.
• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to c
• ontribute and successfully deliver against a business strategy.
• Excellent communication skills - verbal, written to include report writing and group presentations
• Commercially sound with a good understanding of profit and loss accounting and the influence of operating factors e.g. volume v price
• Excellent organization skills, able to prioritize
• A collaborative team player concerned with the team's success as well as individual performance

Why join us?

We are a young and dynamic team, so you will get to make a significant impact, learn a lot, and have fun in the process. We are building our team as well, so this is a great opportunity to quickly climb up the ladder and become among the top D2C experts in India.

We are a funded, capital-efficient business, with best-in-class D2C founders as our investors. We are rapidly growing, so you get to be a part of the hyper-growth phase and quickly grow with us.

Job Details:

• Work timings: Mon to Sat, Work from Office role
• Office location: Mumbai
• CTC: As per market standard
• Reporting: To founder

If you have a creative eye for design, this internship provides an opportunity to develop branding materials, posters, and social media creatives for the school.

Benefits:

● Work on real-world design projects

● Portfolio-building opportunity

● Hands-on experience with branding and promotional materials

Key Responsibilities:

✔ Design posters, brochures, and promotional materials

✔ Create engaging content for social media campaigns

✔ Collaborate with the marketing team for visual branding

Requirements:

● Proficiency in Canva, Photoshop, or Illustrator

● Creative thinking and attention to detail

Position: Big Data Engineer

What You'll Do

Punchh is seeking to hire Big Data Engineer at either a senior or tech lead level. Reporting to the Director of Big Data, he/she will play a critical role in leading Punchh’s big data innovations. By leveraging prior industrial experience in big data, he/she will help create cutting-edge data and analytics products for Punchh’s business partners.

This role requires close collaborations with data, engineering, and product organizations. His/her job functions include

• Work with large data sets and implement sophisticated data pipelines with both structured and structured data.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design scalable solutions.
• Manage and optimize our internal data pipeline that supports marketing, customer success and data science to name a few.
• A technical leader of Punchh’s big data platform that supports AI and BI products.
• Work with infra and operations team to monitor and optimize existing infrastructure 
• Occasional business travels are required.

What You'll Need

• 5+ years of experience as a Big Data engineering professional, developing scalable big data solutions.
• Advanced degree in computer science, engineering or other related fields.
• Demonstrated strength in data modeling, data warehousing and SQL.
• Extensive knowledge with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS and Azure.
• Excellent software engineering background. High familiarity with software development life cycle. Familiarity with GitHub/Airflow.
• Advanced knowledge of big data technologies, such as programming language (Python, Java), relational (Postgres, mysql), NoSQL (Mongodb), Hadoop (EMR) and streaming (Kafka, Spark).
• Strong problem solving skills with demonstrated rigor in building and maintaining a complex data pipeline.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to articulate a complex concept with thoughtful, actionable recommendations.

My Digital Shelf is an expanding and highly entrepreneurial start-up research and production company producing B2B conferences for the global Digital Retail and Consumer goods industry

The role of the Marketing Manager will be to perform general duties to support event planners, project managers and the Global Event team

• Social media daily management - primariliy linkedin and Twitter 
• Digital marketing - SEO, PPC advertising and more 
• Website content develpoment and management
• Copy writing for press releases, website and ad-hoc pieces
• Market research including competitot analysis and performance improvement 
• Liaising with external media agencies and association for advertising campaigns and barter agreements/partnership opportunities 
• Liaising with suppliers including printers, design agencies and publications
• Reporting directly to the Director and planning the event calendar with them
• Ad hoc support to team including assisting with events management and promotional activity
• Maintain production schedules for event materials/collateral
  Work on event follow-up and Event Metrics and Analysis

Candidate requirements:

• Graduated to degree level or equivalent in your chosen discipline, ideally Marketing, Social Sciences, Humanities, Languages or similar
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Ability to work under pressure and meet demanding deadlines
• Confident and mature approach, reflective of the profile of the position and organisation

• Ability to work independently and show a strong sense of initiative, taking ownership of key projects when required with a proactive attitude
• Ability to multitask, prioritise and be flexible is essential
• Works well as part of fast-paced team, prioritising effectively and managing workload
• Excellent IT skills - proficient in both Windows and Mac operating systems (i.e. PowerPoint, Keynote, Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written, able to successfully interact with all parts of the business and stakeholders at all levels
• Excellent organisational, analytical and administrative skills, meticulous attention to detail
• Flexible in approach and able to amend hours as required to suit business needs
• Able to work with confidential material and sensitive information with absolute discretion

- Must have good hands-on experience on WordPress

- Should able to edit WordPress plugins

- Well versed with HTML, CSS, Java script, PHP

- experience in phpMyAdmin, MySQL, MariaDB

- SSO, oauth2 website integration will be added advantage

- Good communication skills, should able to demonstrate website features

- Good work ethics, professionalism, team player