Business development associate

About the Role

We at AkbarTravels.com are looking for a Marketing Manager to lead and execute marketing initiatives across digital, brand, and performance channels. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in campaign planning, customer acquisition, content strategies, and driving measurable growth outcomes. This role requires strong analytical thinking, creativity, and the ability to collaborate across teams including Product, CRM, Design, and Sales.

Key Responsibilities

1. Marketing Strategy & Planning

• Develop and execute the annual/quarterly marketing plan to drive brand growth and revenue.
• Identify new opportunities across channels—digital, partnerships, social, SEO, CRM.
• Monitor market trends, customer behavior, and competitor activities to refine strategies.

2. Digital & Performance Marketing

• Plan and manage campaigns across Google Ads, Meta, Affiliate Networks, and Display.
• Work with internal and external teams/agencies to optimize ROI, reduce CAC, and scale profitable campaigns.
• Track performance metrics such as CTR, CPC, CPA, Conversion Rate, and ROAS.

3. Social Media & Content

• Oversee content strategy for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
• Plan monthly content calendars, creatives, reels, and engagement-driven campaigns.
• Manage influencer collaborations and community-building initiatives.

4. CRM, Retention & Lifecycle Marketing

• Work closely with the CRM team to design journeys and automation using tools like CleverTap, WebEngage, or MoEngage.
• Support retention initiatives such as emailers, push notifications, SMS campaigns, and loyalty programs.

5. Campaign Execution & Coordination

• Coordinate with Product, Design, Tech, and Holiday/Flight teams for marketing requirements.
• Lead seasonal campaign strategy (e.g., long-weekend sales, festival offers, big travel events).
• Ensure all campaigns align with brand guidelines and deliver a consistent customer experience.

6. Reporting & Analysis

• Create weekly/monthly marketing performance dashboards.
• Analyze data from GA4, Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, and CRM tools to generate insights.
• Present performance insights and recommendations to senior management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or equivalent. (MBA preferred)
• 4–6+ years of hands-on marketing experience in travel, e-commerce, OTA, consumer tech, or similar verticals.
• Strong understanding of digital marketing, paid campaigns, CRM, and analytics.
• Proficiency in GA4, Google Ads, Meta Ads, CleverTap/WebEngage, and social media analytics tools.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and creative briefing skills.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and make decisions.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, campaigns, and vendors simultaneously.
• Passion for travel and customer-focused marketing.

Roles and Responsibilities:

·      Fundraising including PE, QIP, IPO, Bonds, ECB, Term Loans & Structured Finance across the globe.

·      Commercial negotiation for financing terms, loan documentation, placements, acquisitions and investments.

·      Financial evaluation in respect of bidding for new projects.

·      Initial, quarterly and annual due diligence for structured and regular credit rating.

·      Effective monitoring, optimum utilization and investment of funds.

·      Review and implementation of periodic cash budget.

·      Periodic review of finance cost and its optimization.

·      Planning utilization of non-fund based facilities. 

·      Relationship management with the banking and investor community.

·      Project financing including refinancing/ restructuring of loans from FI and banks.

·      Valuation and financial modeling for M&A, Joint Venture, financial reporting, portfolio valuation

·      Performing asset or company valuation through various valuation such as Discounted cash flow (DCF), Comparable Company, Comparable transaction, NPV valuation methods or SOTP methods

·      Valuation of intangible assets and goodwill impairment analysis

·      Built comprehensive financial model after understanding RFPs

·      Performing IRR and NPV analysis, sensitivity analysis and scenario modeling for assessing financial viability of projects

·      M&A BD activities including Target search, Benchmarking, Secondary research and company profiling.

·      Preparation of reference materials such as Treasury MIS, presentations, board notes, etc for decision making by senior management, investor and board of directors.

·      Preparation / review of periodic compliances / reporting’s with the lenders / credit rating agencies such as FFR / QIS, Stock Statement, UFCE, NDS, undertakings / declarations, etc.

• 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 in a timely manner. 
• 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.
  
  

• Overall 8-12 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’re looking for an experienced Regional Sales Associate to fuel growth at Quoality- A Modern Operating Infrastructure for Hospitality Businesses to help them improve the guest experience and generate additional revenue.

Founded in 2021, Quoality is a Hospitality Tech company backed by a US-based Newchip Accelerator. Our mission is to equip businesses with the tools they need to grow. 

By providing tools, insights, and education with minimal effort on the business's part, the barrier to making actionable business decisions is lowered dramatically. Everything we do is driven by this mission. Everything we do needs to positively answer the question, "Does this help businesses grow?"

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🙋‍ The role & what we are looking for: Oh, this is our favorite part. We’ve seen companies that write 'templatized' BS for this section; stuff that’s never followed in reality.

Not us. Here are some of our core values to give you a sense of who we are as a team:

• First and foremost, we’re super transparent. We all know what everyone’s working on, how’s the company doing, and the whole shebang.
• We’re all super chill.
• Work time ain’t playtime. We take our work very seriously. We’re a small bunch on a mission to change the guest experience in the hospitality industry, once and for all.
• Deadlines are a thing for us. We are very punctual.
• We know what we are working on and aren’t clueless.
• We’re more friends than colleagues.
• Monthly 1:1s with the founders where you can directly share & receive feedback.

Not convinced yet? Okay, here’s the fun stuff:

• Flexible leave policy. Yeah, it’s truly flexible. We trust you.
• We’re fully remote in India. Work from the beautiful beaches of Goa or the stunning mountains of Manali, we’re all good.
• Annual workstations at exotic destinations. Subject to change and hitting milestones.
• Allowances to choose your coworking space (if you want), courses & anything that you think is beneficial to succeed in this role.

📄 The role & what we are looking for:

💻 Responsibilities:

• “Get the sale” using various customer sales methods (door-to-door, cold calling, presentations etc)
• Own the assigned region
• Forecast sales, develop “out of the box” sales strategies/models and evaluate their effectiveness
• Evaluate customer's skills, and needs and build productive long-lasting relationships
• Meet personal and team sales targets
• Research accounts and generates or follow through sales leads
• Attend meetings, sales events and training to keep abreast of the latest developments
• Report and provide feedback to management using financial statistical data
• Maintain and expand client database within your assigned territory

✅ Must Haves:

• 1 years+ of sales experience/strong drive to make a career in sales
• Familiarity with different sales techniques
• Computer use competency
• Can do & Competitive attitude
• Strong communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and driven
• Comfortable on the phone
• Able to work independently
• You are open to learning new stuff and avoid internal politics.(super important).
• You are humble, kind, and are open to feedback.(super duper important).

❕Bonus:

• Entrepreneurial spirit, Product Thinker, and ‘Can-Do' attitude.
• Passionate about leveraging technology for supporting product delivery in the Hospitality space.
• Operating style suited to working in a startup environment, where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued.
• Excellent leadership skills, including the ability to manage multiple assignments at a time.

🤙 What's the interview process like? Yes, we do have a process, and it’s simple. Step 1: You apply for the job. Step 2: Quick intro call with the founders. Step 3: A round where we evaluate your assignment along with you. Step 4: One round of interviews to gauge if you are a good culture fit. Step 5: Job Offer (contingent on the above steps). Step 6: Welcome to the Quoality! 🙂

So, think we’re a good fit? Then let’s roll.🤘

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We need a top-notch Product Manager to come join our growing team at IK to lead our product development initiatives across all our platforms. 

Who you are

• You have 7 - 12 years experience.
• You love the buzz of a highly productive and fast moving team.
• You’ve had 5+ years of experience developing and managing the product life cycle of world class products. 
• You have your ear to the ground on what competitors are doing and look for partnership avenues. 
• You work with Sales and Marketing to define our GTM strategy and the messaging around it. 
• You work closely with Design and the tech team to build simple and elegant products. 
• You integrate usability studies, market analysis and research into product requirements and your user stories and personas. 
• You are looking to grow fast with a company that's on a rapid growth path.

What will excite us

• Previous startup experience or experience being part of early teams.
• You are highly metrics driven and love defining and measuring the success factors of products. 
• You are a whiz at communicating with stakeholders, with users and with business partners and are deft at managing expectations. 
• You love simplicity - in design, in user stories and in integrations. 
• You love working with incredibly smart engineers. 
• You are good at working with cross functional teams
• You are an excellent problem solver

What will excite you?

• Complete ownership
• Experiment, fail and learn.
• High pedigree, high caliber team.
• Contribute to every area of our business. Have a real impact with your work.
• Top of the line compensation.

We are looking for a UI/UX designer with minimum 4 years of hands-on experience in UI/UX designing.

Experience: 4+ years

Education: Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree/diploma preferably in graphics design or animation

Location: Delhi

Desired Candidate Profile:

• Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop/ Adobe Illustrator/ Sketch/ Adobe XD

• Hands on experience with prototyping tools like Invision, Justinmind or another

• Should be able to conceptualize and design creatives based on the requirements

• Knowledge of UX Design and Interaction Design

• Design clear, attractive and engaging websites & mobile apps

• Must be detail-oriented and have the ability to deliver on time and work under needs

• Must possess good sense of composition, typography, colour

• Keen eye for good design based on current trends and best practices

• Good understanding of Responsive Design development

• Good communication skills to be able to handle Indian & international clients

• Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS, Wordpress will be a plus