Business Development Manager

Role Objective

Build and manage a reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient supplier ecosystem for customised and premium furniture, while ensuring consistent quality, lead-time adherence, and strong commercial competitiveness across categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard OEM partners across furniture categories including Sofas, Beds, Dining, Storage, and Accent Furniture.
• Build a diversified and balanced supplier portfolio to reduce concentration risk while maintaining quality and delivery consistency.
• Develop long-term strategic partnerships with key vendors, including exclusivity arrangements where relevant.
• Drive supplier capability development across quality, finishing standards, compliance, and scalability.
• Own end-to-end costing, pricing, and commercial negotiations with vendors.
• Deliver cost optimisation through material optimisation, process improvements, volume leverage, and alternate sourcing.
• Lead annual rate negotiations, cost resets, and contract renewals.
• Work closely with Category, Design, and Product teams to enable New Product Development (NPD).
• Ensure sourcing feasibility for design-led, customised, and make-to-order products.
• Define, implement, and enforce supplier SLAs covering quality standards, lead times, and responsiveness.
• Collaborate with Vendor Managers and QC teams to ensure On-Time In-Full (OTIF) delivery performance.
• Review vendor performance regularly and drive corrective actions and improvement plans.
• Identify and mitigate sourcing risks related to capacity constraints, supplier dependency, and raw material volatility.
• Partner with Finance on contracts, payment terms, and commercial governance.

Success Metrics (KPIs)

• Cost savings and margin improvement (CM1 / Gross Margin)
• Supplier OTIF and lead-time adherence
• Quality acceptance rate and defect reduction
• Reduction in supplier concentration and dependency risk
• New supplier onboarding, capability building, and scalability metrics

Ideal Profile

• 6–10 years of experience in furniture sourcing, manufacturing, or category operations.
• Strong understanding of furniture materials, production processes, and finishing standards.
• Proven expertise in vendor negotiations, cost management, and supplier development.
• Experience in customised or make-to-order manufacturing environments preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with a hands-on execution mindset.

What We Offer

• High-impact role influencing margins, supply reliability, and product quality
• Opportunity to build and scale a strategic supplier ecosystem
• Cross-functional exposure across sourcing, design, manufacturing, and finance

About the company:

IDFC Limited was set up in 1997 to finance infrastructure projects in India. With time, the company diversified into asset management, institutional broking and investment banking. In 2014, the Reserve Bank of India granted in-principal approval to IDFC Limited to set up a new bank in the private sector.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Technology Delivery Manager - Payments to join our team. The ideal candidate will generate new ideas, utilize analytical skills to optimize performance, and ensure successful delivery of multiple projects simultaneously. This position is ideal for a proactive, strategic thinker eager to advance digital payment solutions through effective leadership and project execution.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Candidate needs to be proficient in project management skills and should be able to deal with multiple functional teams such as Product, Business, Operations etc.
• Candidate should have good technical and functional knowledge of UPI.
• The candidate should be able to integrate seamless UPI payment flow on the Merchant website/Applications.
• Candidate should be able to Integrate Merchant payments solutions on 3rd Party Applications.
• Candidate should be able to work with the UPI technology team of Merchants and Bank.
• Candidate should be able to manage multiple tasks and prioritize them so as to ensure  completion within required time lines.
• Candidate should also be involved in UPI product maintenance activities to ensure minimum customer issues and also resolve issues within specified TAT's.
• Candidate should be responsible for supporting day to day activities in UPI.

Work Experience:

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in UPI Technology and other Digital Products.
• Focus on generating new ideas on UPI platform and innovative product approaches.
• Strong analytical and quantitative abilities.
• Excellent project management skills - ability to manage multiple projects at once.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with ability to influence others.

Job Summary:

We are hiring a Data Scientist – Gen AI with hands-on experience in developing Agentic AI applications using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or Microsoft Copilot. The ideal candidate will be proficient in Python, LLMs, and prompt engineering techniques such as RAG and Chain-of-Thought prompting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and deploy Agent AI applications using LLM frameworks.
• Apply advanced prompt engineering (Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, CoT).
• Integrate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Develop scalable solutions in Python using NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow/PyTorch.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver business-aligned Gen AI solutions.

Must-Have Skills:

• Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or similar (priority given).
• Strong understanding of LLMs, RAG, and prompt engineering.
• Proficiency in Python and relevant ML libraries.

Nice-to-Have:

• Wrapper API development for LLMs.
• REST API integration within Agentic workflows.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS, Data Science, AI, or related.
• 4–7 years in AI/ML/Data Science, with 1–2 years in Gen AI/LLMs.

Role & responsibilities

• Develop engaging and informative content for the solar market, ensuring accuracy and clarity.
• Research and understand target audiences to tailor content accordingly. Ability to draft content for different mediums is a bonus. 
• Work collaboratively with the operations team, sales and marketing team, and other team members to get all aspects of solar covered in content.
• Maintain a strong understanding of current solar market trends and terminology.
• Edit and proofread content to adhere to style guidelines. 
• Stay up-to-date on the latest content marketing trends and best practices.
• Assist with other Marketing & Communications collaterals on a need basis.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communication or relevant field
• At least 3 to 5 years of experience in content writing for B2b, SaaS or technical topics
• Strong understanding of Solar terminology and market trends is appreciated
• Excellent writing skills, with the ability to craft clear, concise, and engaging content
• Proven ability to research and gather information effectively.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines consistently.

Perks and benefits

• Opportunity to fight Climate Change
• A fabulous and flexible work environment
• Independence to operate freely
• Results-oriented work culture
• Attractive Pay
• Attractive Health Benefits
• Attraction Employee Stock Options
• Massive growth potential   

• Travel agency accounting, GST, TDS, balance sheet, billing, etc.
• Perform service provider reconciliation.
• Maintain the general ledger.
• Debtors & Creditors management.
• Preparation of various types of MIS reports
• Perform bank transfers like RTGS, NEFT, and outward remittances.
• Ensure Vendor and credit card reconciliation for all Ledger Accounts
• Helping the senior officer and CA at the time of audit.
• Manage all accounting transactions like invoicing, expense reporting, and payroll.
• Handle monthly, quarterly, and annual closings.
• Daily fund planning to ensure payments are made to suppliers as per turn-around time.
• Preparation of Overall Creditors & Debtors Ageing Report related to Flight, Train, taxi, Metro, and other vendors based on Books.
• Downloading bank statements weekly and performing reconciliation.
• Record banking transactions.
• Work in complete cooperation with the rest of the office team (Sales, Products & Contracting, Operations) and Inter-department communication and coordination with teams.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, with the ability to become familiar with firm-specific programs and software.
• Experience
• Taxation: 1 year (Preferred)
• travel accounting: 1 year (Preferred)

Key Job Responsibilities:

• You will proactively engage with both the senior stakeholders and co-founder to understand their business goals and help them to build an effective sales plan
• Develop and execute sales strategies and identify target sectors, responsible for agency sales and business development activities PAN India
• The role would be dynamic in nature and would include finding prospective clients, designing pitches, strategizing, planning, meeting prospects and closing deals independently
• Ability to put together large complex proposals that speaks to the client’s needs, concerns, and objectives
• Expert in creating sophisticated sales model/pipeline and running them for profitable business venture
• Should have experience with selling digital services like Website & Application Development and Design, Branding, Packaging & Publication Design and Digital Marketing end-to-end
• Analyze & prepare annual sales budgets, responsible for generating revenue collection, establish strategic plans to achieve maximum profits, and expand customer base through extensive marketing
• Ability to analyze and implement marketing strategies and develop sales initiatives
• Drive strategies to increase product & service awareness by observing the market, competitors, and industry trends as well as projections for the future
• Prospect for potential new clients, acquiring and maintaining healthy relationship with them
• Negotiating with stakeholders
• Must have prior experience in handling large & multiple accounts
• Cold call as appropriate within your market or geographic area to ensure a robust pipeline of opportunities
• Identify opportunities for campaigns, services, and distribution channels that will lead to an increase in sales
• Submit weekly progress reports and ensure data is accurately entered

Forecast sales targets and ensure they are met by the team

REQUIRED CITIZENSHIP / WORK PERMIT / VISA STATUS:
Should be currently based in Japan with Valid work visa

MUST HAVES:

Experience Required:

• LAN/Wireless LAN based skills(over 3 years experiences)
• Firewall based skill (over 3 years experiences)
• Server based skill (over 3 years experiences)
• WAN/Internet based skills (over 3 years experiences)

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• Required General Skills:

• Fluent in Japanese(both written & verbal) and English(reading & written)

Job role :

• · WAN, LAN, Wireless LAN, Firewall, ServerWork Contents;
• · Support Design and Implementation
• · Create documentation or basic design and detail design
• · Join required meeting(Internal, External)
• · Management Change(Create and close change record)
• · Test(Unit, Integrated) in on-site
• · Create the result of test document
• · Create change procedure
• · Installation equipment in on- site
• · Support soft MACD from remote site
• · Create operation manual
• · Support problem management
• · Support inventory management
• · Support configuration hencmanagement
• · Support reporting
• · Cisco Router/Switch/FW (MPLS, BGP, OSPF, STP, VLAN, QoS, VRF)
• · Juniper Router/Switch(SRX/EX/QFX)
• · Server (Linux,)
• · Wireless (CAPWAN)