Operation-cum-Sales Manager

• Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for the growth of Factory Acquisition product, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch
• Identify, Plan and execute side Product Hacks to speedup Factory Acquisitions
• Assess current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation
• Analyze consumer needs, current market trends, and potential partnerships from an ROI and build vs. buy perspective
• Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue, and ROI
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development by engineering teams
• Build product flows for seamless factory onboarding at scale
• Collaborate closely with engineering, production, marketing, and sales teams on the development, QA, and release of products and balance of resources to ensure success for the entire organization
• Drive the Factory CAC Metric
• Implement, and maintain production timelines across multiple departments
• Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate to-market plans

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Set objectives and goals for the team and track progress.
• It is an employee-facing managerial role.
• Lead multiple resources and groups from an operational angle and track progress through daily standups.
• Should be excellent in writing general email communication.
• Dealing with email inquiries.
• Taking minutes of the meeting and tracking those to closure.
• Document an overall status report of engagement.
• Mentor and coach team to work on creating case studies for the respective projects.
• Follow up with the prospects for getting appointments.
• Monitoring the daily progress of team members.
• Organizing project team meetings and recording minutes.
• The person will be managing groups related to content creation, graphics, lead generation, sales, and overall growth strategy also.
• Should conduct standup meetings
• Use of MS tools to streamline the project, resource, and portfolio management.
• Develop the project plan for the tasks, dependencies, and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality.
• 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.
• Providing input into the planning process.
• Good at decision making, relationship building & have good leadership qualities.
• Capable of developing procedures, service standards, operational policies, and guidelines with an attitude for continuous improvement.

Requirements: 

• Must have experience of 3-5 years.
• Proven work experience as an Operations Manager, or Staffing Manager etc..
• Excellent ability to delegate responsibilities while maintaining organizational control of branch operations and customer service.
• Highly trained in conflict management and business negotiation processes.
• Knowledge of general business software and aptitude to learn new applications; proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).

• Ensures timely and effective completion of projects and initiatives given by the CEO.
• The Job role includes working on Sales, Marketing, Operations, as and when required.
• Oversee daily operations through collaboration with senior management and department leaders.
• Manages the CEO calendar and prioritizes their time and schedule.
• Participates with the senior management team in strategic planning and decision-making.
• Creates and maintains systems and processes to streamline operations.
• Establishes standards and procedures for hiring/operations.
• Maintains accurate confidential files and data records.
• Serve as liaison between staff, executives, senior leaders, and CEO, regarding company climate, employee well-being, project updates, proposals, and planning.
• Build and develop relationships with all employees for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and help to define new operational strategies, working with CEO and executives.
• Improve current processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity.

Job Description:

• Understand business model and create project roadmap. Break down the big requirements into smaller chunks and prioritize as per the business outcome
• Actively work with product and technology team in a seamless manner
• Coordinate with the User Experience team to design the final intuitive UI and define the overall tech solution along with the IT team
• Leading project planning sessions
• Managing project progress and adapt work as required
• Ensuring projects meet deadlines
• Managing relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Conducting project review and creating detailed reports for executive staff
• Optimizing and improving processes and the overall approach where necessary
• Create User Journey as per Business expectations along with well-defined user cases, wire frames and workflow diagram
• Own the overall product and feature development projects

• Analyse user data & develop innovative growth hacks to drive user growth and engagement via all channels

Requirement / Desired Skills:

• Proven ability to lead, collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage interactions across Project life Cycle
• Hands on experience in creating user stories, user journey wire frames and workflow and defining acceptance criteria and success matrix
• Strong product design skills from both a technical API integration and user interface design perspective
• Excellent Project Management skills and experience working in Agile fashion
• Excellent communication skills to handle both executive-level discussions as well as functional/technical deep dives
• Demonstrate analytical and quantitative skills over performance matrices such as engagement, retention, conversion funnel, etc.

• Experience in a fin-tech domain is a plus.

1. Defining the category roadmap globally for digital products like Gift Cards, Vouchers, Experiences, Fintech instruments, Donations, Subscriptions, etc.
2. Product, place, price, and promotions of the category portfolio.
3. Manage supplier relationships for a range of global categories.
4. Good understanding of consumer demand and macro-economic trends in the categories.
5. Good analytical skills with the ability to draw insights from large data sets, forecasting, budgeting, etc.
6. Work with marketing, sales, and product teams to market, sell and build a seamless user experience.
7. End-to-end management of product i.e. from supplier to customer. You should be responsible for cataloging, quality, CSAT, and revenue for the categories.

1. You should have at least 3 years of experience in global category roles, preferably digital categories.
2. Good communication skills are key for this role.
3. Good analytical skills along with sales/marketing knowledge.
4. MBA from reputed colleges would be preferred for the role.
5. Team management experience will be a plus.
6. A strategic thinker along with a growth mindset ll be a good fit for the role.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment will enable you to juggle between concepts yet maintain the quality of content, interact, share your ideas, and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Plum.‍

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, San Francisco, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Plum works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. However, we assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

• Partner with the product team, co-founders, and business heads to define the product vision for all our verticals (Demand, Supply, Advisory)
• Lead and mentor a team of Product Managers (PMs) to build an impactful roadmap and make it a reality in collaboration with engineering, design, and business teams.
• Define and communicate key performance indicators (KPIs), objectives, and key results to measure success; Regularly interface with ground teams, farmers, traders, etc. to get feedback on product strategy for your product area.
• Regularly share progress with execs and the larger teams against quarterly and annual goals.
• Foster a product culture for PMs, Analysts, Designers, Operations Teams, and Business teams.
• Work with engineering leadership to envision and prioritize improvements to our core product offering that is in line with our quarterly and annual goals.

• 4+ years of experience in core product management.
• Experience leading and mentoring in a product management organization.
• Experienced working with highly technical engineering and design teams and driving complex projects from ideation to successful launch.
• Expertise in setting, aligning and measuring success KPIs for large products
• All-around leader: you can create a product vision that others want to follow.
• Customer obsession: you genuinely care for our customers and deeply understand the needs of the customer ( end users, ground teams, and internal teams) and make sure that those needs are well understood by your teams.
• Problem solver: loves to figure out complex problems and constantly think about how to make processes more efficient.
• Great with data: you are data-focused, and drive the team to take decisions based on data
• A track record of partnering with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to communicate to engineers and executives in the same breath.

• Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product 
• Define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities 
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories 
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI 
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities 
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals 
• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product 
• Follow our competitors and the industry 
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends

• Previous overall working experience of 8-14 years, including 3-5 years working as a Product Owner. 
• Bachelor’s in Engineering 
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles 
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills 
• Excellent organizational and time management skills 
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Creative thinker with a vision 
• Attention to details 

Amar Chitra Katha(ACK Alive) is launching a first of its kind learning program in the country for which we are inviting applications from interested people who would want to be a part of the team. Leo & Mike is the content, curriculum and operations partner for ACK Alive. You will be working closely with the Leo & Mike team as well as the Amar Chitra Katha team, which will be a one of a kind opportunity.

Role: Program Manager (Amar Chitra Katha Project)

Job Description

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a Program Manager who can drive our programs across a maximum of 6 centers and ensure the seamless delivery of the programs in line with the organization’s objectives to the complete satisfaction of learners and their parents.

Duties/ Responsibilities:

The Program Manager will be responsible for 

• Effective implementation of program across 6 centers with regard to learner satisfaction,learning outcomes and parent satisfaction

• End to end training in content,learning system,operations and implementation

• Ensuring venue readiness in terms of room setup,material availability etc before the program starts and act as single point of contact for venue partner,parents and learners

• Coordinating kitting ,packing and transportation of materials to and from venues.

• Creating,Updating and maintaining a learner and parent database across all venues

• Creating schedules across venues and communicate the same to facilitators,parents,learners

• Rescheduling of classes at venues as required

• Observing the classrooms and documenting the observations for mentoring facilitators

• Conduct meetings with facilitators and teams to discuss the observations from classroom observation

• Collecting data/feedback from facilitators,learners,parents and classroom observations and loop it back to  Leo & Mike team for appropriate interventions in content and program improvement

• Initiating appropriate interventions wherever required with respect to learner and parent issues

• Managing the post sale communication to parents regarding the programs and communicating about learners to parents through the facilitators

     Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline

• Effective interpersonal and communication skills

• Sound knowledge on Project Management

• Proven experience to manage a team

• Problem Solving and troubleshooting skills

• A positive and proactive attitude

• Ability to take constructive feedback and work on it

• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications

     Details

• Compensation: Rs.40,000/- per month(6 month contract which may be extended)

• 1 paid leave per month

About Us       

ACK Alive (Amar Chitra Katha)

ACK Alive is a unique concept that brings alive the stories, the cultural learnings and the values that Amar Chitra Katha has always celebrated. The ACK Alive offers a wide range of learning programs to children that is rooted in Indian values and combined with modern skills to thrive in the 21st century. 

Amar Chitra Katha has been the first glimpse into our glorious heritage and culture for generations of Indians. Founded in 1967, today, Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) is a household name in India. Today, ACK is synonymous with the reinvention of quintessential Indian tales from the great epics, mythology, history, literature, oral folktales and many other sources.

Leo & Mike 

Leo & Mike is the content and curriculum partner for ACK Alive. Leo & Mike is a new-age learning company for 4 to 14 year old children. We create and facilitate after-school and summer camp programs where learning happens through interdisciplinary content, project-based activities and play. We work closely with parents, schools and other organizations with a similar mission while keeping children at the centre of everything that we do.