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Job Title: Area Sales Manager – B2B School Sales

Location: Thrissur & Cochin, Kerala

Experience: 1 to 4 years

Salary: ₹3.5 – ₹4 LPA

Industry: Education / EdTech / B2B Sales

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly motivated and energetic Area Sales Manager to drive B2B sales in the school segment across Thrissur and Cochin. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing new business opportunities, maintaining strong relationships with school decision-makers, and achieving sales targets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify and onboard new schools in the assigned territory (Thrissur & Cochin).
• Build and maintain strong relationships with principals, school management, and key decision-makers.
• Pitch educational products/services to schools and ensure timely closures.
• Achieve monthly and quarterly sales targets.
• Conduct product demos and training sessions for clients.
• Work closely with the marketing and operations team to ensure seamless delivery and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor competition and market trends to strategize accordingly.
• Maintain accurate records of sales, client interactions, and follow-ups via CRM tools or reporting formats.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline (MBA is a plus).
• 1–4 years of experience in B2B sales, preferably in the education sector or similar.
• Prior experience in school sales will be a strong advantage.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong negotiation and presentation abilities.
• Self-driven and target-oriented.
• Willingness to travel locally within assigned areas (Thrissur & Cochin).

Benefits:

• Fixed salary: ₹3.5 – ₹4 LPA (based on experience and interview performance).
• Incentives based on sales performance.
• Travel reimbursement.
• Career growth opportunities in a fast-growing sector.

Job Description

The consultant aids internal or external teams to achieve and maintain compliance with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and ISO 27701 through the following responsibilities:

• Conduct gap assessments for frameworks like PCI DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and related standards.
• Assist in policy development, risk assessments, and readiness audits.
• Coordinate audit engagements, collect evidence, and support certification processes.
• Develop and implement GRC controls and processes.
• Advise on remediation and corrective action plans after gap analyses.
• Stay updated with regulatory requirements, providing guidance to clients or internal teams.

Key Skills

The ideal GRC Level 2 Consultant should display competency in the following skills:

• Working knowledge of standards: PCI DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 27701 (preferred exposure to ISO 22301, GDPR, NIST CSF, SOC 2).
• Gap assessment methodology and compliance audit experience.
• Policy and control documentation, evidence gathering, and reporting.
• Risk assessment and remediation planning expertise.
• Communication of technical requirements to cross-functional teams.
• Analytical, problem-solving, and report writing abilities.
• Familiarity with GRC Practice
• Experience supporting external certification audits and maintaining compliance documentation.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented HR Business Partner & Payroll Specialist to join our dynamic team. This dual role is critical in aligning HR practices with business objectives while ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing. The ideal candidate will be a proactive and strategic thinker with strong interpersonal skills, a thorough understanding of HR principles, and expertise in payroll administration. This role requires a self-starter who can manage multiple priorities, build strong relationships with employees and stakeholders, and maintain the highest level of confidentiality.

Responsibilities:

HR Business Partnering:

●    Serve as a strategic HR partner to assigned business units or departments, understanding their goals and challenges and developing HR strategies to support their success.

●    Provide guidance and support to managers and employees on a wide range of HR matters, including employee relations, performance management, talent development, and organizational design.

●    Collaborate with management to identify and address employee performance issues, conduct investigations, and recommend appropriate disciplinary actions in accordance with company policy and legal requirements. 

●    Support the implementation of HR programs and initiatives, such as compensation and benefits, learning and development, and employee engagement programs.

●    Partner with the talent acquisition team to understand workforce planning needs and participate in the recruitment and onboarding processes.

●    Analyze HR metrics and trends to identify opportunities for improvement and develop data-driven solutions.

●    Stay up-to-date on relevant employment laws and regulations and ensure company policies and practices are compliant.

●    Facilitate organizational changes and support change management initiatives.

●    Act as an employee advocate, fostering a positive and productive work environment.

Payroll Administration:

●    Collect, review, and verify employee timekeeping data, ensuring compliance with company policies and applicable laws.

●    Calculate and process payroll adjustments, including new hires, terminations, promotions, leaves of absence, and retro payments.

●    Administer employee benefits programs related to payroll, such as deductions for health insurance, retirement plans, and other voluntary benefits.

●    Prepare and submit statutory payroll reports and filings (e.g., PF, ESI, TDS, Professional Tax, etc.) in compliance with local and national regulations.

●    Reconcile payroll data with general ledger accounts and resolve any discrepancies.

●    Respond to employee inquiries related to payroll, benefits, and tax-related matters in a timely and professional manner.

●    Maintain accurate and confidential payroll records and documentation.

●    Participate in the implementation and maintenance of payroll systems and software.

Qualifications:

●    Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field. A Master's degree in HR is a plus.

●    3+ years of progressive HR experience, with a significant portion in HR Business Partnering and payroll administration.

●    Strong understanding of HR principles, practices, and employment laws.

●    Proven experience in managing the full payroll cycle and familiarity with relevant payroll software and systems.

●    Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a strong attention to detail and accuracy.

●    Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.

●    Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion and integrity. 

●    Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.

●    Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). 

Preferred Qualifications:

●    Familiarity with HRIS systems (e.g., Greythr & Zoho)

●    Experience in developing and implementing HR policies and procedures.

A bit about us

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more at WeatherBug.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and we have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

A bit about you

A recognized expert in their professional discipline, with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals, and develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to achieve organizational objectives. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization—projects that carry substantial consequences for success or failure. Requires strong influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems encountered are often complex and multidimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that affect multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Develop production-ready code to meet scope of requirements.
• With guidance, update and create documentation as needed for new and existing solutions.
• Participate in code-reviews with comments to improve code quality, stability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain unit and integration testing solutions. Be able to run your code in lower environments.
• Run tests on the mobile device to ensure code meets requirements
• Watch mobile releases for Android or iOS for features you developed
• Teardown your solutions across multiple environments and platforms.
•  Provide operational support of your deployed code
• Determine issues within your areas of expertise.
• Work with teams across the engineering organization to understand and incorporate client requirements into final solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science or a related field, OR 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Android application development using Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks, including Jetpack components (e.g., Navigation, Room, ViewModel, LiveData), Retrofit for networking, and image loading libraries (e.g., Glide, Coil).
• Proficiency with asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt or Koin.
• Experience with app architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI, and clean architecture principles.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams and participating in iterative development cycles.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, best practices, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso).
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
• Ability to independently take ownership of tasks and deliver robust solutions.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Would be great if you have:

• Experience with React Native, including building function components, using hooks, and working with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Play Store processes, including app signing, publishing, and release management.
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory.

You are:

• A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt
• Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn
• A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts
• A strong communicator who is able to collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs
• A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when needed
• Self-sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Respectful–-we treat each other with respect and assume the best of one another
• Not afraid to have fun!

What we offer

At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

● Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity

● Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)

● In Office Daily Catered Lunch

● Fully stocked snacks/beverages

● Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents

● Covid home quarantine cover

● Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines

● Wellness/Gym Reimbursement

●  Pet Expense Reimbursement

●  Childcare Expenses and reimbursements

●  Employee assistance program

●  Employee referral program

●  Education reimbursement program

●  Skill development program

●  Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)

●  Internet reimbursement

●  Birthday treat reimbursement

●  Home office set up

●  Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic

●  Creche reimbursement

●   Co-working space reimbursement

●   NPS employer match

●   Meal card for tax benefit

●   Special benefits on salary account

●   New joiner relocation

About PoshVine: 

PoshVine aspires to become the world's leading transaction-driven loyalty and engagement platform by providing a mutually beneficial ecosystem for people, banks and retailers. Our products around programmatic offers, rewards, and loyalty help retailers increase contextual engagement and financial institutions increase share of spends, while end-users maximize their rewards and savings. PoshVine works with all the global payment networks and many marquee financial institutions, including 7 of the top 10 banks in India. 

Frontend at PoshVine:

We are building super-slick, easy-to-use rewards and loyalty experiences inbuilt in banking and payment journeys. The frontend team at PoshVine strives to build solid frontend foundations, infrastructure and top-notch experiences.

We are looking for passionate, collaborative, and empathetic Frontend Developers (team-leads and individual contributors) to join us, help create outstanding user experiences leading to high customer delight and help build the future of payment-linked loyalty and engagement. You can expect:

• Freedom to evaluate and introduce new tools, libraries and coding standards.
• Work on developer productivity and platform tooling.
• Evangelise tech and share knowledge in internal and external forums.
• Contribute to Product and Design ideas and implement them like it’s your own product. 
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Roles & Responsibilities: 

1. Strong knowledge on Javascript fundamentals, Object oriented programming and Web concepts.
2. Experience or familiarity with AngularJS, or any other frontend framework.
3. Develop frontend application features of PoshVine's enterprise dashboards and consumer-facing bank / fintech app integrations. 
4. Zeal to learn new technologies, and Follow code quality and best practices.
5. Take end-to-end ownership of products. Ideate on product requirements with the team and drive it from design to implementation.
6. Curiosity to go in depth of codebases and libraries, and have the ability to set it up from scratch.
7. Open to work on constructive feedback and proactively share the same with peers.

You’ll be a good fit if: 

1. You’re awesome at JavaScript. We prefer people who are strong in web concepts and fundamentals, and are open to learning any framework/library.
2. You have the ability to build features from scratch which are modular and scalable, and can deliver it end-to-end.
3. You have demonstrated experience in creating front end applications using Angular and/or React, HTML5, CSS3, Jquery, Bootstrap, Backbone.js, Semantic UI, Postgres, etc. Our current platforms are mostly Angular 8+ in frontend and Ruby on Rails / PostgreSQL / MongoDB on backend. 
4. You are comfortable working on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) of the products using agile methodologies .
5. You are willing to explore new frameworks and languages while bringing in expertise and customer-centric usability best practices. 

Hands-on experience in React.js  and Good understanding of core concepts

Hands-on experience in state management libraries like Redux.

Hands-on experience in HTML5 & CSS3 and JavaScript.

Experience integrating with Restful web services

Proficient with ES6/7/8 syntax and concepts

Proficient knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues

Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token

Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Web pack, NPM.

What is the Role?

• Role is responsible to define requirements and drive success of Ecommerce / Real Estate / Healthcare / Grocery / Food Online centric Tech Products.
• Responsible for overseeing and bringing products to market while meeting key business objectives.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Hands-on experience of building and managing consumer tech products
• Prior experience in Ecommerce / Real Estate / Healthcare / Food Delivery business
• Experience of 3+ years + of which 1.5 years + in product management
• Track record of driving and delivering large, complicated projects on time and within scope
• Entrepreneurial spirit / ability to roll up your sleeves and try different things with minimal direction
• Loves and understands technology. Stays current on competition and disruptors in the market
• Is organized, and can plan, forecast and manage a product backlog
• Possesses a unique blend of business and technical savvy.

• Good knowledge in manual testing through test case estimation, test case preparation, and test reporting
• Design & develop test cases based on available requirement specifications and verification plans, execute tests cases at least 1+ years
• Good experience in Ad-Hoc testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Re-testing, Smoke testing, running Selenium automated tests for 3+ years.
• Knowledge in Selenium and Java.
• Good exposure to Non-functional testing
• Very good at completing the assigned testing tasks on time.
• Ability to learn and implement quickly.
• Prepare detailed defects report.
• Good communication skills and documentation skills.
• Good to have knowledge in both Web application and Mobile application testing, test management tool, defect management tool and test metrics.