Role - Expansion Manager (North)
Job Location - Delhi (Open to travel)
About our Client :-
Our client is a Communities Foundation that works in the area of skilling and livelihoods for underserved youths. This is a pioneering program with a strong PPP model, an agency-led approach to livelihoods and a vision of socio-economic transformation.
About the role :-
government authorities and donors in this position to craft an expansion strategy and also help build the team.
Your role to supplement the Organisational goals:
- Approaching the government/municipal authorities of various cities in the northern region for communicating about the Lighthouse program.
- Prepare proposals and budgets and submit them to potential stakeholders.
- Follow up with authorities for approval of budget and proposals.
- Collaborate with authorities for identification of physical space for the Lighthouse centre in accordance with organisations specifications.
- Ensuring the development of the physical space in time for the launch of the Lighthouse.
- Supporting the launch of the Lighthouse in the new cities and handing over to the team.
- Building and maintaining a good relationship with the potential stakeholders
- Coordinate with donors for release of funds at different stages of the project.
Who we are looking for:
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Role - State Head (Maharashtra)
Experience - 10+ years
Job Location - Pune, Maharashtra
About our Client :-
Our client is a Communities Foundation that works in the area of skilling and livelihoods for underserved youths. This is a pioneering program with a strong PPP model, an agency-led approach to livelihoods and a vision of socio-economic transformation.
The ideal candidate would be someone who is motivated and passionate in working with the underprivileged youth and likes working towards their betterment, has experience in managing a large team size, handled centres in various capacities and has exposure to working with various stakeholders. If you are confident you tick all the boxes, we invite you to apply for this position.
- Independently lead centres for enabling thousands of youth from the nearby communities to be formal jobs/self-employed
- Develop and maintain a conducive environment at the centre that enables learning and a feeling of safe space for youth
- Implement the foundation program such that the youth builds agency and over time does not need to depend on the Lighthouse Source
- Manage Centres in the region for timely deliverables and high-quality outcomes for all of the stages of the program - Community Outreach to Alumni
- Interfacing with ward level networks -
Government (Corporators, Ward Officers, PMC personnel) for mobilization and other support
NGOs for mobilization and other support
Corporates and Establishments for volunteering, placements and donor/potential donor visits
Citizens for volunteering
- Manage brand building activities e.g., Events, which are specific to the centre and help with advocacy with the local economy for youth placements.
- Seek opportunities for partnership with various skilling and placement organisations.
- Drive and motivate the team towards performance excellence and results.
- Build a strong culture at the workplace which values integrity, courage, empathy and inclusion.
- Ability to find creative and innovative solutions for program implementation to stay ahead of the curve.
- MSW or Post Graduation in any field
- 10+ years of experience preferably in both social and corporate sectors.
- Superior knowledge of multiple operational functions and principles, including finance, customer service, production, and employee management.
What are we looking for:
Self-driven, excellent time management and multitasking skills
Strong people management, project management, and data analytics skill
Strong orientation towards relationship building and problem-solving
Proven ability to plan and manage operational process for maximum efficiency and productivity
Experience with budget and business plan development
Strong verbal and written communication skills in Hindi and English.
Liaising with product teams - Liaising with various product and program managers of Zeta to assess the scope of changes a solution under consideration may require and to arrive at feasible, optimal approaches for all business requirements
Liaising with Engineering teams - Collaborate with engineers and architects to arrive at detailed solutions and implementation plans
Requirements specifications - Review the functional and non-functional requirements, integration and feature specifications, phase releases, and solutions that translate the functional mapping to Zeta’s product landscape.
Functional mapping - Functionally translate and map the business domain to a technological solution domain.
Identify constraints - Highlight any long-term risks that may originate as a consequence of design or architectural choice made in the overall system design leading to an incomplete solution mapping and propose enhancements
Implementation - Oversee the delivery of solutions while highlighting corner cases where the implementation may be lacking. Be the point-of-contact for functional queries that would require domain-specific context to help unblock the team. Work with UAT teams to ensure the comprehensiveness and correctness of the delivered solution
Communicating with internal stakeholders - Describing the structure, characteristics, behaviour, and other aspects of the problem and solution to various project stakeholders
Business Unit
Electron
Products
Electron benefits, Gifting and RnR
Geography
India, with intermittent travel to the client locations
Target Audience
Customer Leadership and the Implementation teams
Business Development teams
Electron benefits, Gifting, RnR and other relevant platform product teams
Activities
Frequently interact with the Product teams to understand the product offerings and roadmap
Become an SME of the functional architecture of the products subscribed by the clients
Work closely with Business Development teams to conceptualize concepts and solutions for clients
Review the BRDs for various requirements shared by clients and the solutioning proposed by the Solution Architects
Participate in the regular sync-up meetings with client implementation teams to discuss solutions and share updates
Conduct workshops with clients to understand requirements in detail
Deliver a detailed functional spec of the overall solution and categorize the proposed solutions into core product deliverables and customizations specific to the clients
Create data flow diagrams to represent the data exchange between various modules
Lead a small but efficient team of BAs/SAs
Reporting Functions
Head of product
Team composition
Solution Architects
Business Analysts
Ability to comprehend technical products and solutions
Excellent presentation skills and stakeholder management
Good experience in conducting workshops with large senior management groups and presenting solutions to a large audience
Ability to learn fast and communicate effectively
Ability to work on complex projects with a medium level of ambiguity
Must be very strong in setting up processes for efficient delivery
Excellent documentation skills are a must. Should be able to create detailed documents with relevant content (Data flow diagrams, flow charts etc)
Should be able to communicate effectively with various stakeholders such as business, product, project management and design
Should have experience in working with stakeholders from different geographies
Should have a track record of building & shipping high-quality products owning the process end to end
Adapting to complex situations with an aim to achieve business goals
Background and experience
Engineer (preferably IT, CS)
MBA (Not a must)
15+ years of total experience as a Solution Architect, Program Manager, consultant or a Data analyst with services, consulting or product companies
Prior experience in handling multiple large global clients for complex projects is a plus.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Conduct client meetings and employee training.
- It is not a client-facing role and will be within Internal Frugal Testing role
- The person will be managing groups related to content creation, graphics, lead generation, sales, and overall growth strategy also.
- Very good at taking Standup meetings
- Use of MS tools to streamline the project, resource, and portfolio management.
- Prioritize and manage multiple complex projects within time, technical and resource constraints.
- Provide written documentation to appropriate team members and clients addressing each facet of implementation for every project, including an overall rollout plan, timelines, and project assignments.
- Develop the project plan for the tasks, dependencies, and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality.
- Assure the project to the best closure.
- Assist in documenting project phases and creating summary reports for company management.
- Strategic planning, process development, analysis of key performance metrics per PMO standards
- Detail-oriented with strong data collection, analysis, and reporting skills.
- Experience working in diverse and collaborative environments.
- Delegating tasks to team members.
- Tracking and communicating project risks and opportunities.
- Organizing project team meetings and recording minutes.
- Monitoring the daily progress of team members.
- Providing input into the planning process.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field
- 3+ years in an advanced management role (preference given to those with program management experience)
- Exceptional leadership, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills
- Working knowledge of digital marketing
- Outstanding working knowledge of change management principles and performance evaluation processes
Primary roles and responsibilities -
- Manage multiple interconnected projects, ensuring program goals are reached
- Develop and manage scope of the projects, deadlines and activities for projects and be accountable for delivering against established business goals/objectives
- Strategize and implement key program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives
- Identify key resource requirements from cross-functional teams and external vendors
- Assume responsibility for the program’s people and vendors
- Build and execute projects that cut across various aspects of Business
- Work cross functionally to help influence change in getting ideas executed
- Build and lead communication plan and develop a reinforcement strategy across the organization
- Manage all aspects of the implementation including the human and cultural elements, and reinforcing collaboration
- Lead and direct different cross-functional programs and projects of varied sizes and types
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques-
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation-
- Help people to design and model solutions for innovation .
- Coordinate all cross-functional activities, collaborate with leaders in varied areas on planning and execution
- Provide the skill and structure required to identify problems and improvement opportunities
Traits that we are looking for -
- Experienced with MS office - Excel, Word and PPT
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- Should understand the product development process - to enable projects to be converted into Products
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills, written and verbal
Who we are:
Stanza Living is India's largest and fastest-growing tech-enabled, managed accommodation company that delivers a hospitality-led living experience to migrant students and young working professionals across India. We have a full-stack business model that focuses on the design, development, and delivery of daily living solutions tailored to the young consumers' lifestyles.
Today, we are :
- India's largest managed accommodation company with over 75,000 beds under management across 24+ cities
- Most capitalized player in the managed accommodation space, backed by global marquee investors - Falcon Edge, Equity International, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Accel Partners
- Recognized as the Best Real Estate Tech company across the Globe in 2020 by leading analysis agency, Tracxn
- LinkedIn Top Startup to Work for - 2022
Job Summary :
- We are seeking an exceptional Business Associate who loves solving complex problems to drive analysis and insights to help our teams make meaningful business decisions.
- The selected candidate will be partnering with key stakeholders, analyzing data, discovering, and solving real-world problems, and building metrics and business cases to help unlock insights that take our business to the next level.
Responsibilities :
- Work with different stakeholders and management teams to consult, develop, and implement key strategic growth projects - will be responsible for end-to-end planning and delivery of growth projects
- Single-handedly lead projects in consultation with senior stakeholders and drive on-ground impact
- Develop a roadmap for the product team and scope medium/long-term interventions to enable the development of world-class tools for our sales team
- Understand and assess customer journey; identify pain points and implement interventions
- Participate in strategic and tactical planning discussions
- Own development and maintenance of new and existing reports focused on analysis of requirements, metrics, and dashboards
- Use statistical methods to identify areas for improvement and make suggestions for streamlining processes
Basic Requirements :
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to partner and work with cross-functional teams
- Ability to draw insights from analysis supported by data and clearly communicate them to the stakeholders and senior management as required
- Be self-driven, and show the ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete data
- Ability and interest in working in a fast-paced, ambiguous and rapidly changing environment
Additional Plus :
- Strong knowledge of and experience with reporting packages (Business Objects etc.), databases (SQL etc.), and programming (XML, Javascript, or ETL frameworks)
- NLU, Text, Speech, Image Processing
- Excited about Machine Learning and AI
- Want to work on a highly saleable, performance-optimized infrastructure that elastically handles customer needs
- Innovate, Design, and prototype solutions for Digital Assistant and Bots platform to handle heavy loads
- Build and maintain our platform and automation frameworks to ensure maximum uptime and predictability while preventing outages and service interruptions or degradations
- Analyze system failures and develop rapid response solutions to ensure such failures do not reoccur
- Work cross-functionally with product development, Product Management, Program Management and Cloud Infra operations teams
- Partner with Engineering to provide the infrastructure and services required to enable innovation
- Predict and provide notice of potential system vulnerabilities for current and future solutions and implementations. Provide specific recommendations and guidance to address such vulnerabilities
- Analyze, build and maintain all automation tools and processes to ensure the highest standards of reliability and robustness
- Fully understand our customer's service needs and ensure we meet these needs
Preferred Qualifications
- NLU, Text, Speech, Image Processing
- Excited about Machine Learning and AI
- Want to work on a highly saleable, performance-optimized infrastructure that elastically handles customer needs
- Innovate, Design, and prototype solutions for Digital Assistant and Bots platform to handle heavy loads
- Build and maintain our platform and automation frameworks to ensure maximum uptime and predictability while preventing outages and service interruptions or degradations
- Analyze system failures and develop rapid response solutions to ensure such failures do not reoccur
- Work cross-functionally with product development, Product Management, Program Management and Cloud Infra operations teams
- Partner with Engineering to provide the infrastructure and services required to enable innovation
- Predict and provide notice of potential system vulnerabilities for current and future solutions and implementations. Provide specific recommendations and guidance to address such vulnerabilities
- Analyze, build and maintain all automation tools and processes to ensure the highest standards of reliability and robustness
- Fully understand our customer's service needs and ensure we meet these needs
- No matter your role in our team, you will find yourself in an exciting and challenging environment where every person is empowered to show initiative, be outspoken, and be proactive and not reactive. Oracle is dedicated to the continual growth and development of its staff, striving constantly to strengthen our expertise as well as develop new skills. Our team is spread all around the world in four continents - we provide a full range of opportunities and challenges to apply your kills and grow your career in this new and exciting arena.
Requirements -
Headquartered in Redwood city, CA, our client is a communication and assessment SaaS startup that enables the movement health professional (athletic trainer, physical therapist, recovery specialist) to seamlessly capture and assess patient care data through cutting edge technologies such as machine learning and AI. It improves outcomes for healthcare organisations by identifying early signs of clinical deterioration in chronically-ill patients thereby decreasing hospital admissions and reducing unnecessary spending.
This revolutionary startup has raised $3 Mn in a seed funding round led by top investors. It is all set to democratise the accessibility and affordability of movement health through its full stack digital health platform.
What you will do:
- Handling multiple projects end to end across multiple domains with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Quality, Design, etc)
- Analyzing business requirements preparing project plan ensuring the smooth delivery of projects and day to day project management activities
- Participating in client calls to discuss the nature, urgency and root cause of the problems and appropriately taking decisions in collaboration with clients
- Identifying project roadblocks, risks, and mitigation plan, keeping track of tasks, defects assigned to the team
- Working closely with technical development teams on estimation, technical assessments and setting up backlogs/project plan
- Hosting internal and external customer demos at various points along with managing project status on Project Management tools and collaboration tools
- Identifying scope change and leading efforts to develop, estimate, and communicate budget and schedule impacts
- Working with management on resource allocation, feedback, and process improvements
- Driving prompt resolution of customer issues and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction
- Selecting appropriate project management approaches (Agile and/or Waterfall) based on customer and project requirements
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science/ Engineering/ MCA
- 4+ years of experience on Project/Program Management roles working on managing complete development cycle of SaaS products/applications
- Certification in Scrum Master
- Knowledge of Project Management tools such as JIRA
- Software Development or QA Engineer background is a plus
- Ability to transform raw thoughts into clear technical documentation and/or direction
- Problem-solving capabilities with the ability to identify root cause, patience and commitment to solve
- Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation and articulation skills
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- You have 7 - 12 years experience.
- You love the buzz of a highly productive and fast moving team.
- You’ve had 3+ years of experience planning, prioritizing and delivering the product roadmap.
- You get your buzz from metrics, efficiencies and productivity to enable the product team to keep getting better.
- You love interacting and managing a bunch of highly passionate and demanding stakeholders.
- 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 a whiz with Jira and have numbers at the tap of your finger.
- Experience having set up agile processes for teams and you have war stories to share.
- You don’t really care about your title, you actively contribute to product and engineering decisions.
- You love being a leader of incredibly smart engineers.
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