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Conga CPQ Business Analyst

Exp- 7 to 9 years

Work Mode – Remote

Employment type – Contract

Job description:

3 to 5 years of experience to support and enhance Conga CPQ and ERP systems.

Should have Conga CPQ/CLM functional expertise.

Serve as SME for Conga CPQ & ERP systems.

Perform system testing, validation and coordinate with business UAT testing.

Expert-level knowledge in product modelling, pricing configurations, and quote management.

Collaborate with teams to gather, analyze and document business requirements.

Should be good at creating stories, acceptance criteria and agile processes.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly motivated and analytical individual to join our team as a Market Research and

Competitive Intelligence Analyst, specializing in enterprise technologies and telecom markets. As an integral

member of our organization, you will be responsible for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data to provide

strategic insights and recommendations to support our business decisions and competitive positioning. This role

requires a deep understanding of the enterprise technologies and telecom sectors, as well as strong research,

analytical, and communication skills

 Job Description:

o Conduct comprehensive market research:

 Identify and analyze market trends, industry developments, and emerging technologies in the

enterprise technologies and telecom markets.

 Gather data on market size, market share, growth rates, customer needs, and competitive landscapes.

 Monitor regulatory changes, industry standards, and policy developments impacting the sector.

 Utilize primary and secondary research methods to collect relevant data, including surveys, interviews,

and data analysis tools.

o Perform competitive intelligence analysis:

 Identify key competitors in the enterprise technologies and telecom markets and track their activities,

strategies, and performance.

 Analyze competitors' product offerings, pricing strategies, market positioning, and go-to-market

approaches.

 Evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of competitors.

 Conduct benchmarking analysis to assess our company's performance against competitors and identify.

areas for improvement.

o Generate strategic insights and recommendations:

 Synthesize market and competitive data to extract meaningful insights and actionable

recommendations.

 Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide strategic guidance for product development,

marketing campaigns, and sales strategies.

 Present findings, reports, and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders in a clear and

concise manner.

 Stay abreast of industry trends, best practices, and technological advancements to inform strategic

decision-making.

o Maintain industry knowledge and expertise:

 Continuously update knowledge of enterprise technologies and telecom markets through research,

industry events, and networking.

 Build relationships with industry experts, analysts, and vendors to gain insights and access to relevant

information.

 Act as an internal subject matter expert, providing guidance and training to colleagues on market.

research and competitive intelligence methodologies.

 Team Management:

 Qualifications and Skills/ Experience, Expertise:

o Previous Experience in a Related Field Preferred; Proven work experience as a Market Research Analyst,

o bachelor's degree in business, marketing, economics, or a related field. A master's degree is preferred.

o Proven experience in market research, competitive intelligence, or related fields within the enterprise

technologies and telecom sectors.

o In-depth knowledge of enterprise technologies, such as cloud computing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence,

and data analytics.

o Familiarity with telecom services, network infrastructure, wireless technologies, and telecommunications

regulations.

o Proficient in gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data from various sources.

o Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights and

recommendations.

o Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information in a clear

and concise manner.

o Proficiency in using market research tools, data analysis software, and Microsoft Office suite.

o Detail-oriented with strong organizational and project management skills.

o Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

o Strong business acumen and a keen interest in staying up to date with industry trends and developments

o Strong interpersonal skills and an ability work as part of a team, both physical and virtual

o Ability and willingness to work on short deadlines; Strong organizational skills with a problem-solving attitude;

Strong listening and storytelling skills.

o Enthusiasm for working in a high profile, fast-paced startup culture.

o Responsible and self-motivated; Strong analysis skills; Ability to learn new technologies; Ability to multitask and

prioritize between competing activities

o Expertise in MS office - Excel, Word & Power Point documents.

 Key Deliverables: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Result Areas (KRAs) for the Market Research and

Competitive Intelligence Analyst. These KPIs and KRAs are designed to evaluate the performance and contribution of the Market Research and Competitive Intelligence Analyst in enterprise technologies and telecom markets. They focus on areas such as market share analysis, competitor analysis, customer insights, strategic recommendations, research accuracy, industry expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and process improvement.

o KPI: Market Share Analysis

 Measure and track changes in market share for our company and key competitors.

 Assess the impact of market share changes on business performance.

 Develop strategies to improve or maintain market share in target markets.

o KPI: Competitor Analysis

 Monitor and analyze competitor activities, including product launches, marketing campaigns, and

pricing strategies.

 Provide regular updates on competitor strengths, weaknesses, and market positioning.

 Identify opportunities and threats in the competitive landscape and propose counterstrategies.

o KPI: Customer Insights

 Gather customer feedback and conduct surveys to understand customer preferences, needs, and

satisfaction levels.

 Translate customer insights into actionable recommendations for product development, marketing,

and customer service improvements.

 Track customer satisfaction scores and measure the impact of initiatives on customer loyalty and

retention.

o KPI: Strategic Recommendations

 Provide timely and valuable strategic recommendations based on market research and competitive

intelligence.

 Evaluate the potential impact of strategic initiatives on business performance and market positioning.

 Monitor the implementation of strategic recommendations and measure their effectiveness.

o KPI: Research Accuracy and Timeliness

 Ensure accuracy and reliability of research data and information.

 Adhere to research methodologies, data collection processes, and quality standards.

 Deliver research reports and insights within defined timelines to support decision-making processes.

o KPI: Industry Knowledge and Expertise

 Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes in enterprise.

technologies and telecom markets.

 Participate in industry events, webinars, and conferences to expand knowledge and network with

industry professionals.

 Share industry insights and best practices with the team and contribute to thought leadership

activities.

o KRA: Cross-functional Collaboration

 Collaborate with product management, sales, and marketing teams to align market research findings.

with business strategies.

 Provide support and guidance for product development, marketing campaigns, and sales initiatives

based on market insights.

 Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration across departments.

o KRA: Process Improvement

 Identify opportunities to streamline and improve market research and competitive intelligence.

processes.

 Implement best practices, tools, and technologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

 Measure the impact of process improvements on the quality and timeliness of deliverables.

Education: Any graduate, with digital certifications (a must)

Our client is currently looking for a Data Solutions Associate Director to join the data, technology & analytics division.

• Support agencies on client brief responses, working with the analytics & technology directors to develop tailored solutions using proprietary or partner technologies.
  
• Conduct client data & technology audits for development of audience strategies.
  
• Deliver detailed digital transformation roadmaps to support audience activation, provided in a client-ready format for agency partners to utilize.
  
• Project manage all signed-off SOW’s, from initiation to closure and ensure effective delivery.
  
• Work closely with agency planning teams to identify opportunities for clients within data & tech service scope.
  
• As the SME on data marketplaces, be the POC for buying teams with enquiries on data strategy for media activation (source, validate, build).
  
• Develop agency data ‘champions’ in your respective market, through training and enablement programs covering Identity resolutions, data governance and ethics policies, as defined by our global and legal teams.
  
• Work with the Regional & Marketing teams to create & deliver Learning & Development sessions on our partner solutions to buying and agency teams.
  
• Lead and develop key relationships with relevant data & technology partners, working with investment & agencies to deliver opportunities that support our client and internal requirements.
  
• Any other ad-hoc projects or tasks relevant to the position.
  
• Build a great working relationship with your team, market teams and client team, operating seamlessly together to deliver success for our clients, across the briefing, booking, set up, optimization and reporting processes.
  
  

We are aiming to provide good digital learning solutions to K12 students. Providing Quality learning experience is our Motto.

You will be responsible for certain sections of the product, taking entire ownership. You should be proactive with the short term and long term vision for the product and should be able to lay the roadmap to deliver the same. Cross functional management is an important aspect of this role.

You are expected to do the following things

• Solve user problems and make the user’s life easier by providing value driving solutions.
• Collect requirements using multiple techniques and prioritize them according to the relevant factors contributing to the business vision.
• Make Product Roadmaps and plan the deliveries of the product features.
• Take user interviews for requirement gathering and taking feature wise feedback.
• Should be able to create design wireframes for clear communication with designers and other stakeholders
• Should get the high fidelity designs done with the help of the design team. Involve yourself in the UI/UX process.
• Ensure timely product deliveries and app releases.
• Work on Agile product development, create Product Backlogs and User Stories. Write proper PRDs.
• Prioritize user stories and discuss the same with the engineering and QA team
• Analyse the product/feature performance through metrics and follow a data driven approach.
• Interact with the Testing Team and facilitate the proper issue resolutions.
• Continuously interact with the management, stakeholders, marketing and operations team for various product related decisions.

• Should have strong analytical skills.
• Decent Technical knowledge of Client and Server Functioning.
• Good UI/UX knowledge.
• Should have good presentation skills.
• Should have good written and verbal skills.
• Should be passionate to take up challenges and try to provide apt solutions.
• Experience in Agile methodology for product development detailing Epic, User Stories,managing scrum etc.
• Cross functional experience and managing interactions with various teams
• Should have prior Product Management experience of 2 years.

Minimum 5-7years of professional experience building web-applications
Strong experience in backend development
Strong experience in AI/Machine Learning development, Data Analysis/Processing
Experience in creating robust and secure REST APIs
Hands-on exposure to RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB etc.
Proficiency with one or more programming languages from Java, Python, Node/JavaScript
Solid familiarity working with cloud and related technologies, AWS, GCP and Azure cloud environments
Ability to do very quick research in unknown technologies
Startup mindset, comfort with chaos and multi-tasking ability
Strong programming fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms
An eye for writing performance optimum code in any tool set

As an IT Infrastructure Architects design and implement information systems that support an enterprise infrastructure. You will provide the necessary technical infrastructure for the development of new and existing infrastructure technologies and system requirements. 

Improve efficiency and streamline operations. enhance design specs, create technical documentation, implement control concepts and deliver expected outcomes. Collect performance data to monitor systems resource usage and failures rates and provide solutions and recommend changes. ensure scalability and anticipate capacity growth through careful planning and awareness of industry, business and client’s growth trends. Design activities rely on accurate data, sensible KPIs and performance metrics to improve processes and bridge gaps

Primary Responsibilities:

Conducting research on emerging and existing technologies. Recommend system alternative technologies and infrastructure development efforts that increase infrastructure flexibility, reliability, stability, scalability, resilience, availability, performance and cost effectiveness. All collective research efforts will contribute to the creation of architectural road maps that leverage software and cloud technologies. Research customer interaction, policy adherence, enterprise processes. May act as the subject matter expert of architectural virtualization.

Needs to guide in execution of Incident, Change, Release, Problem, Performance, and Availability Management

Security of all infrastructure is of paramount importance and is periodically audited, monitored and updated in keeping up with latest threats and risks.

Identifying best practices for future implementation. Architects provide feedback to the enterprise and incorporate all gathered information into future integration plans.

Provides DevOps thought leadership and mentoring in both advisory and delivery contexts, focusing on the requirements of Technology and Business and how these are best served by continuous improvements to our delivery approach

Required Technical skills and Experience

• Over 10+ years of experience as IT Infrastructure Architect
• Bachelor / Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• Must have experience in Infrastructure architecting on AWS/ Azure/ Google cloud.
• Should have a very good understanding of Cloud Native services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) platforms for application deployment and scalability in a cost effective manner, addresses scalability, availability, service continuity (DR), performance and security requirements. auto-scaling and self-healing.
• Has hands on experience with cloud orchestration using Kubernetes or apache Mesos on marathon would be an advantage
• Evangelizing microservices-based architectures using containerized applications; help to drive strategy and implementation of cloud native infrastructure
• Sound Knowledge of RDBMS, preferably with MYSQL Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis. Working knowledge of, CDN/WAF 
• Proven expertise on Linux, and DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkings, maven, Bamboo Docker, Puppet, Ansible,Kubernetes,terraform. Elastic Beanstalk, Openshift
• Infrastructure security (VPC, tunneling, API management, Governance) and networking security solutions like routing, switching, Firewalls etc.
• Good debugging skills on Linux, Apache, Nginx, PHP, MYSQL and cloud-based application and administration of RHEL, CentOS/Ubuntu
• Experience in Cloud scale APM and Monitoring Tools such as ELK ,Splunk, Nagios, Graffana, XMON Datadog, Dynatrace, Appdynamics, Cloud Monitoring.
• Troubleshoot and debug environment and infrastructure problems found in the production and non-production environments.
• Implements security improvements by assessing current situations; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
• Determines security violations and inefficiencies by conducting periodic audits.
• Upgrades system by implementing and maintaining security controls.
• Must have knowledge of leading storage backup solutions.
• Experience with one or more Unix shell scripting languages (Bash, C-Shell)

• Team mentoring and support for ramping up new engineers
• Provide leadership in planning, defining requirements, scoping efforts, and setting appropriate milestones
• Using a data-driven process/mindset, author technical content to support the incident response process (e.g. postmortem/root cause analysis) and develop interim solutions to prevent or quickly resolve issues/problems the next time.
• Experience with networking technologies (routing, switching, IP addressing, DNS, Load balancers, etc.) Knowledge of :  - File systems, NFS, CIFS, iSCSI - IPv4 networking, including TCP/IP, SMTP/POP/ IMAP, HTTP/S, LDAP – DNS
• Ability to work independently while tackling complex problems
• Passionate to palm ownership and responsibility of the systems - 24x7

• Managing the project plan, budget, structure, schedule and staffing requirements for the delivery organization
• Creating and executing project work plans and revising as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements for a workstream
• Being responsible for the deliverables, cost, schedule, and quality for a workstream
• Developing, reviewing and approving project plan(s) and scope; ensuring all facets of the project deliverables are met for a workstream
• Reviewing deliverables prepared by team before passing to client for a workstream
• Identifying and managing project risk for a workstream
• Ensuring project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately for a workstream
• Reviewing the status reports of team members and addressing issues as appropriate for a workstream