MDK/Agentry - Consultant/Senior Consultant

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We are a talent startup that partners with fast-moving digital companies globally to scale their teams. Since 2016, we have served over 100 funded startups ( top brands, some unicorns too!) and hired teams in the spaces of engineering, growth, design and product. Our mission is to be the top curated talent marketplace while fostering a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive workplace.

About the role
We are looking to hire a recruiter who should be experienced and motivated that can help source and hire for top-funded companies globally.
Ideal candidate is a high-energy, strong communicator with a knack for engaging experienced professionals.

Responsibilities 

• Responsible for End to End Recruitment (Sourcing, screening of profiles, scheduling of interviews).
• Responsible for understanding and analyzing the requirements in different technical skill set categories.
• Creative sourcing methods like Linked-In, internal database, referrals, head-hunting, and networking.
• Take steps to ensure a positive candidate experience
• Willing to take challenges in Recruitment & closing the demands on time.

• The ideal candidate should have the zeal to grow in the technical Recruitment world.
• Must have IT recruitment/Non-IT hiring experience and expertise in Screening, shortlisting, negotiation and coordinating with the Recruitment process.
• Experience in working on Job Portals is mandatory
• Experience in full-cycle Recruiting, Sourcing
• Proficient in the use of social media and job boards
• Aggressive and talented professionals with excellent communication skills.
• Well-organized & capable of managing Quality and Volumes of open positions

1. Managing social media pages with a digital growth strategy.
2. 2. Coming up with online contests for audience engagement.
3. 3. Creating strategies for brand promotion and increasing the brand's visibility.
4. 4. Working on monthly calendar management, creative content, blogs, social media growth strategies, digital ads, and organic strategies.
5. 5. Working on engagement with bloggers.
6. 6. Interested to learn about Website updates and website optimization in terms of content and SEO.
7. 7. Copywriting for social media posts, promotional emails, and other marketing ideas
8. 8. Design and present new social media campaign ideas
9. 9. Track, report, and analyze campaign performance to foresee and resolve issues before they occur daily and proactively.
10. 10. Lead and manage media campaigns with definite conclusions and actions
11. 11. Identify and evaluate new campaign opportunities and growth initiatives and convert them into short-term or long-term projects with estimated timelines and expected results
12. 12. Participate in departmental or cross-team meetings to communicate results and issues
13. 13. Audit accounts periodically and suggest any optimization changes related to account structure and optimization to improve the content
14. 14. Generate weekly and monthly reporting for all digital marketing campaigns assessed against ROI and KPIs
15. Requirements: SEO, SEM, Video Editing skills, Content writing 
16. Qualifications in the relevant field is mandatory Exceptional organizational and multitasking abilities. 
17. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information.

The Human Resource Manager will perform the routine functions of hiring and interviewing staff, administering pay, benefits, setting up and enforcing company policies and practices.

• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations.
• Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy.

• Partners with the leadership team to understand and execute the organizations human resource and talent strategy particularly as it relates to current and future talent needs, recruiting, retention, and succession planning.
• Manages the talent acquisition process, which may include recruitment, interviewing, and hiring of qualified job applicants, particularly for managerial, exempt, and professional roles; collaborates with departmental managers to understand skills and competencies required for openings.
• Analyzes trends in compensation and benefits; researches and proposes competitive base and incentive pay programs to ensure the organization attracts and retains top talent.
• Creates learning and development programs and initiatives that provide internal development opportunities for employees.
• Oversees employee disciplinary meetings, terminations, and investigations.
• Maintains compliance with regulation authorities and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews policies and practices to maintain compliance.
• Maintains knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Hands on Experience on OneStream or Hyperion Planning/Essbase Applications.
• Implementation experience including Building application, modules, writing Business rules is must
• Must have Vb.net scripting experience or Essbase Calculation expertise is mandatory
• Hyperion Planning & Essbase is plus
• Cloud experience is preferred (Azure, GCP)
• Hands on Experience with SQL Server and RDBMS systems
• Understanding of Finance Business Functions (Budgeting, Forecasting), Financial Reporting

• Designing and building the WordPress website front-end
• Creating the website architecture
• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration
• Creating landing pages 
• Generating WordPress themes and plugins
• Conducting website performance tests
• Troubleshooting content issues
• Monitoring the performance of the live website and improving it
• Work on SEO and Optimise continuously for website using Google Analytics
• Assist in Social Media Management and Email Marketing
• Stay updated with latest web technologies, SEO Tools and Website optimising tools and widgets
• Managing Social Media Management Tools

• Planning & Strategy - Plan and execute a sales strategy that will help the team to get quality business.
• Build Process - Prepare a sales plan and sales performance tracking system to keep track of the process from approaching to acquiring each prospective client.
• Marketing Material - Creates marketing literature and promote products and time-sensitive sales
• Networking - Attend SHRM conferences, Recruitment Agency Expo, and similar events to grow networks in the industry across the globe.
• Lead Generation - Generate qualified leads by proper utilization of calls, email, social media, and other means to get in touch with the relevant personnel in the client company
• Lead Management - Document all the meetings through different methods, such as CRM, MS Excel, Minutes of Meeting (Email), etc.

• Learning - Becomes fluent in all products and services offered by us through testing, demonstrations, and research
• Need analysis - Assesses clients’ needs and accordingly makes recommendations and solutions.
• Proposals - Prepare presentations to address the client’s problems with relevant solutions in a consultative manner.
• Educate - Demonstrates our offerings to highlight its pros and cons, v/s various competing products or services.
• Deals - Negotiates sales, package discounts, and long-term contracts with clients
• Stay Updated - Gains familiarity with the different industries, and stays updated on trends and innovative products

• Consulting - Provides recruitment consultation and after-sales.
• Project Management - Coordinate with the internal & external teams to complete projects within the set deadline.
• Client Servicing - Maintain good relationships with clients by taking constant feedback on the systems and services
• Relationship Management - Maintain good relationships with the internal, as well as external stakeholders.

• Years of Relevant Experience- Minimum 3 years of proven experience in Recruitment/ Staffing Sales/ Business Development.
• Education & Work experience- We prioritize skills over degrees but Bachelors/ Masters degree/ diploma/ certification in Sales & Marketing, Business Management, Human Resources or other relevant fields.
• Software and Applications- Tech-savvy with good knowledge of MS Office, CRM Systems, have the knowledge and can adapt to other technologies very quickly.

• Excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal and consulting skills.
• Knowledge of relevant products and services.
• Motivated, have negotiation skills, attention to detail, and critical thinking under high-pressure
• Sound judgment to recognize prospects’ key pain areas, and understand clients’ requirements.
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines.
• Confident, pleasant personality, ambitious, self-motivated, organized with leadership and management skills.

• Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems like Kafka, Yarn, Elastic Search, etc..
• Familiarity with Python-related technologies and frameworks like Django or Pyramid.
• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration (e.g. filesystems, inodes, system calls, etc) or networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies, and hardware, SDN, etc)
• Familiarity with at least one of the cloud computing infrastructures - GCP / Azure / AWS
• Familiarity with task queue frameworks like Celery or Pika is a plus.
• Source code management and Implementation of security best practices.
• Experienced in building monitoring/metrics & alerting tool (APM tool), a custom dashboard for each Application stack against the supported environment
• Good understanding & implementation experience using 12-factor App principles
• Awareness of Cloud Security concepts
• Awareness of Information Security concepts and Best Practices

What you need to have:

• Minimum 3+ years' experience as a software developer.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, Angular.js, HTML 5, CSS.
• Familiarity with Git.
• Linux and/or OS X experience.
• Experience consuming API endpoints.
• Good to have - Kafka/queuing system
• Should be well-versed in using multiple Databases - SQL/NO SQL,
• Should have experience using in- memory Data Bases-Redis
• Experience with Unit-Testing.
• Experience building web applications with responsive design.
• Experience with Node.js and/or other server-side JavaScript technologies and tools.
• Strong knowledge of design principles, user interfaces, web standards and usability.
• ES6, React JS/JSX, Redux, Web pack, Immutable.js.