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Job Summary:

We are looking for a motivated and customer-focused Sales Associate. The Sales Associate will be responsible for assisting customers, driving sales, maintaining product knowledge, and ensuring a positive shopping experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Greet and assist customers in a friendly and professional manner.
• Understand customer needs and recommend suitable products or services.
• Achieve and exceed individual and team sales targets.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of products, promotions, and company policies.
• Ensure store shelves are fully stocked, organized, and visually appealing.
• Handle customer inquiries, complaints, and returns with professionalism.
• Process transactions accurately using POS systems.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships to encourage repeat business.
• Support the team in merchandising, inventory checks, and store cleanliness.
• Stay updated on industry trends and competitor activities.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Sales Associate, Retail Assistant, or in a similar customer service role.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong sales and negotiation abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Basic knowledge of POS systems and MS Office is a plus.
• High school diploma or equivalent (Bachelor’s degree preferred).
• Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as required.

About Us

Aavyan Consulting is a growth-focused advisory firm that works closely with early to mid-stage startups to help them scale across people, capital, and strategy. We’re now looking for a passionate and proactive individual to help us lead investor relations and fundraising execution.

Role Overview

We’re hiring a Fundraising & Investor Relations Associate who will be responsible for independently managing and executing 3-4 fundraising processes end-to-end. The ideal candidate will already have a strong network of VCs and angel investors and be able to open relevant doors for our founder and client startups.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and manage a pipeline of VC and angel investors relevant to our portfolio and internal needs
• Set up and coordinate investor meetings for the founder and client leadership
• Craft compelling investor collateral – decks, teasers, financial snapshots, etc.
• Lead and execute 3-4 end-to-end fundraising processes (from prospecting to closure)
• Maintain and update investor CRM and ensure timely follow-ups
• Support due diligence coordination and data room management
• Stay updated with current funding trends and active investors in the Indian and global ecosystem

Requirements

• 3–4 years of relevant experience in startup fundraising, investment banking, or venture advisory
• Proven track record of successful fundraise closures (at least 3-4 deals)
• Strong network of active angels, micro-VCs, and institutional funds
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organized, self-driven, and able to work with minimal supervision
• Prior experience in a consulting firm/startup ecosystem is a plus

Why Join Us?

• High ownership role with exposure to founders, VCs, and high-growth startups
• Remote flexibility and fast-paced learning environment
• Opportunity to directly contribute to scaling impact-driven startups
• Work closely with the founder on strategic growth initiatives

Company Profile :

Merilytics, an Accordion company is a fast-growing analytics firm offering advanced a and intelligent analytical solutions to clients globally. We combine domain expertise, advanced analytics, and technology to provide robust solutions for clients' business problems. You can find further details about the company at https://merilytics.com.

We partner with our clients in Private Equity, CPG, Retail, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, Logistics industries etc. by providing analytical solutions to generate superior returns. We solve clients' business problems by analyzing large amount of data to help guide their Operations, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Strategies, and much more.

Position :

- Business Associate at Merilytics will be working on complex analytical projects and is the primary owner of the work streams involved.

- The Business Associates are expected to lead the team of Business Analysts to deliver robust analytical solutions consistently and mentor the Analysts for professional development.

Location : Hyderabad

Roles and Responsibilities :

The roles and responsibilities of a Business Associate will include the below:

- Proactively provide thought leadership to the team and have complete control on the delivery process of the project.

- Understand the client's point of view and translate it into sound judgment calls in ambiguous analytical situations.

- Highlight potential analytical issues upfront and resolve them independently.

- Synthesizes the analysis and derives insights independently.

- Identify the crux of the client problem and leverage it to draw relevant actionable insights from the analysis/work.

- Ability to manage multiple Analysts and provide customized guidance for individual development.

- Resonate with our five core values - Client First, Excellence, Integrity, Respect and Teamwork.

Pre-requisites and skillsets required to apply for this role :

- Undergraduate degree (B.E/B.Tech.) from tier-1/tier-2 colleges are preferred.

- Should have 2-4 years of experience.

- Strong leadership & proactive communication to coordinate with the project team and other internal stakeholders.

- Ability to use business judgement and a structured approach towards solving complex problems.

- Experience in client-facing/professional services environment is a plus.

- Strong hard skills on analytics tools such as R, Python, SQL, and Excel is a plus.

Why Explore a Career at Merilytics :

- High growth environment: Semi-annual performance management and promotion cycles coupled with a strong meritocratic culture, enables fast track to leadership responsibility.

- Cross Domain Exposure: Interesting and challenging work streams across industries and domains that always keep you excited, motivated, and on your toes.

- Entrepreneurial Environment: Intellectual freedom to make decisions and own them. We expect you to spread your wings and assume larger responsibilities.

- Fun culture and peer group: Non-bureaucratic and fun working environment; Strong peer environment that will challenge you and accelerate your learning curve.

Other benefits for full time employees:

(i) Health and wellness programs that include employee health insurance covering immediate family members and parents, term life insurance for employees, free health camps for employees, discounted health services (including vision, dental) for employee and family members, free doctor's consultations, counselors, etc.

(ii) Corporate Meal card options for ease of use and tax benefits.

(iii) Work dinners, team lunches, company sponsored team outings and celebrations.

(iv) Reimbursement support for travel to the office, as and when promulgated by the Company.

(v) Cab reimbursement for women employees beyond a certain time of the day.

(vi) Robust leave policy to support work-life balance. Specially designed leave structure to support woman employees for maternity and related requests.

(vii) Reward and recognition platform to celebrate professional and personal milestones.

(viii) A positive & transparent work environment including various employee engagement and employee benefit initiatives to support personal and professional learning and development.

Key responsibilities

Write simple, understandable, testable, and efficient code with focus on solid technical stability and performance.

Drive technical improvement by applying software craftsmanship in everyday work as well as by identifying and executing larger refactoring/improvement initiatives.

Contribute in implementation of complex features and design work within the team.

Being part of cross team technical initiatives

Participate in and contribute to the team's Agile practices.

Take responsibility in maintaining high engineering standards, commitment to the product and respect and attitude towards others.

Skills:

Hands-on experience with modern Ruby on Rails practices and development. (1-2 years)

Experience with writing clean, maintainable and scalable code

Good awareness of the Ruby on Rails ecosystems and being in touch with the latest developments in this area

Experience in developing backend APIs/services, micro-service architecture.

Have a clear understanding of database technologies

Awareness/experience with testing methodologies like RSpec

A high-performance mindset to deliver good quality code and also an understanding of the product

Openness with working in a culture of inclusiveness and individual responsibility and experience with Agile methodologies.

Good communication skills – good knowledge of English, both written and oral

Good to have:

Working knowledge of react or other JS based frameworks.

Hands on experience with python, nodeJS, mongo db