Operations executive

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Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a Process Associate at Growing Stars Consulting in Jaipur. The Process Associate will be responsible for tasks related to analytical processes, customer service, communication, finance, and business process outsourcing (BPO).

Qualifications

• Analytical Skills, Finance, and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) skills
• Customer Service and Communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to work efficiently in a team environment
• Experience in process improvement is a plus
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Growth Planning: Develop and execute strategies to drive sustainable growth and expansion in alignment with company goals.
• Market Analysis: Conduct thorough market research and analysis to identify new opportunities, market trends, and competitive threats.
• Business Development: Lead initiatives to acquire new business partnerships and opportunities, including identifying potential clients and negotiating agreements.
• Operational Excellence: Streamline and optimize internal processes and workflows to enhance efficiency and productivity.
• Financial Management: Collaborate with finance teams to develop budgets, monitor financial performance, and ensure cost-effectiveness.
• Team Leadership: Provide strong leadership and mentorship to cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Performance Metrics: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to track progress towards goals, regularly reporting to senior management.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure business continuity and resilience.

Qualifications:

• Education:  MBA or equivalent from a prestigious institute such as IIM preferred.
• Experience: 4-6 years of progressive experience in business development, operations management, or related fields. Prior experience in a leadership role preferred.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Strategic Vision: Proven ability to think strategically, anticipate future trends, and translate vision into actionable plans.
• Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and effectively manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.

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Content Operations Specialist 

Location: Work from home

Type: Primarily contract based 

Nature of work: Full-time.

As a Content Operations Specialist at Pratilipi Marathi, you will closely work with our Content Operations lead and other language owners to ensure delighting millions of readers via content curation. You will be the one who gets to decide which content list goes on our App and Website homepage. You will run writing competitions for thousands of authors. You will focus on the health and hygiene of your language by filtering content from the backend. You will get to decide which content goes into our social media. 

In short - you will own a content funnel in Pratilipi Marathi. We are looking for extraordinarily creative and logical personalities to create great experiences for our authors and build great reading experiences for our readers. 

What we are looking for in a person:

You must be passionate about stories and literature. Strong and commendable verbal and written communication skills in both Marathi and English are a MUST. You are hungry for growth and learning. You should be super organized, take ownership of each initiative, and have a curious mindset to learn new tools and techniques. Proficiency in Microsoft Office and G Suite is required, as is the ability to prioritize tasks and frequently multitask. You must have a deep love for Pratilipi, aspire to work with authors and make a positive impact in the language literature world.

What you’ll be doing:

• You will be closely working with our Content Operations team and take end-to-end ownership of Writing competitions in your language. You will work on ideas around writing competitions, You will create and translate drafts, rules, and value systems around competitions. You will be in charge of competition results and rewards mechanisms. 
• You will understand user funnels and take up focused initiatives to scale event participation and published content numbers. 
• You will do regular content sanity checks based on necessary metrics and choose the best content for the Pratilipi Premium section.
• You will do awesome vibrant translations of articles whenever required, by fully understanding the content needs.
• You will choose which story goes in front of readers on our Facebook channel. You will select creatives to engage readers in each story. 
• You will be an admin of our large social media page and group, where you will approve daily published content and establish communication and customer success. 
• You will be working on the health and hygiene of the platform by removing pirated content, hate speech, and explicit content. 
• You will read all event content and curate the highest quality event results based on necessary metrics and what is best suited for the Pratilipi community.
• You will reply to user queries over email and help them with any kind of issues related to Pratilipi events. 
• You will be responsible for assisting in the day-to-day content needs of our product managers in order to run different experiments. Your content would go to millions of readers each day. 

What we offer:

• Work opportunity in a high-growth start-up environment. Be a part of something big, exciting, and meaningful.
• Learn new skills, take on challenging tasks, grow as an individual, and grow within the organization.
• Career development in Content operations, Linguist, Content Management, Community operations, Content writing, or similar fields. 
• Dynamic, creative, and collaborative work environment. Supportive leadership.
• Flexible work hours and better work-life balance
• Work from Anywhere
• Salary 20-25k per month. 

Interview process:

• We won’t look for an experience.
• We would take interviews over a few phone calls and Zoom. 
• Expect one or two assignments once you clear the first round of interviews.

• Owning responsibility for defining and driving operational/business goals.
• Managing Day-to-day operations of the ecommerce platform.
• Building on the existing business by adding new categories and product portfolio listings on the marketplaces.
• Product Portfolio management – Assisting the team with product sales and category and performance inputs to optimize the product portfolio from time to time.
• Overseeing the day-to-day marketplace eCommerce operations, customer service, updates, post listings, promotions, merchandising, maintenance and performance.
• Staying up-to-date with the promotional calendars and plans of eCommerce platforms. Driving category interventions.
• Supporting the eCommerce Manager on campaigns and programs.
• Supporting integrations of eCommerce platform with main website as well as backend systems and applications.
• Guiding internal teams and vendor teams on development & implementation issues.
• Coordinating with Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and Operations on Day-to-day management of the eCommerce platform.
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What you need to have:

• Minimum 5 years of experience within an ecommerce operations role
• Experience handling ecommerce platforms, online sales and website content management
• Excellent communication and organizational skills in addition to project management experience
• Financial acumen- ability to reconcile accounts receivables with payments received from sales partners
• Ability to manage tasks simultaneously
• Experience working on Google and web analytics
• Experience evaluating and executing SEO strategies    

Who you are:

We are looking for experienced / energetic Demo Jockey (s) who can represent the 500apps brand well and engage our prospective customers in partnership with the sales team in meaningful ways for customers as well as 500apps.. Ideal candidates will share our passion to learn and master the apps to make customers appreciate 500apps in their situation / context. The successful candidate will be business savvy, detail oriented and be able to build effective demo’s to suit a prospective customer's use case. She / he would have had relevant experience in a SaaS / Product based company.

What you will be doing (responsibilities):

1. Work as part of the Sales POD in a matrixed environment to close deals.

2. Pull together effective demo’s using necessary apps for desired outcomes.

3. Keep an eye on the Sales pipeline and build / customize demo’s as needed prior to client meetings in partnership with the sales team.

4. Gather feedback from Customers post demonstration and provide the same to the Product team for potential enhancements / tweaks to fit into the customer's environment.

5. Be available / flex for demo’s as per shift / region assigned.

6. Build and maintain a repository of ready to use Demo’s for most frequent use cases.

7. Create and submit necessary reports.

8. Be the product champion / evangelist for 500apps.com

9. Stay on top of updates in current apps and new apps being launched - explore new app combinations for enhanced results.

Skills, Qualifications, Requirements:

• Clear and articulate communicator in English language to be able to effectively engage International customers.
• Ability to learn and apply apps in a stand alone fashion as well as in combination with other apps to deliver enhanced results for Customer use cases.
• Ideal candidate has a broad understanding of industries, domains, functions and disciplines to be able to effectively and quickly apply the apps in appropriate scenarios.
• You will ideally have a combination of both Product (Computer Sciences) and Business education and experience.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience as Demo Specialist or Onboarding Specialist in a B2B setting.
• Should be able to work effectively in a Matrixed environment - working closely with Sales and Customer Success Teams.

• Ability to learn and adapt fast.

Desired Candidate Profile:

• The ideal candidate will have a strong mix of relationship management, strong analytical, business and technical skills.
• 6-10 years of overall delivery related (pre-sales, solutioning, delivery management or customer account management) experience preferably in the Cybersecurity/SaaS/hi-tech products.
• 2+ years experience in customer facing roles with customers in US/Europe/ME geographies.
• Ability to internalize the product offerings and can discuss solutions, benefits and trade-offs with the customers.
• Ability to build, maintain and leverage strong relationships with Business and Technology Decision Makers within each customer to influence solution adoption, create strong support for new opportunities and to secure their willingness to advocate on our products.
• Ability to multitask in a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Experienced at account management & growth through farming.
• Experienced at leading presentations and discussions with customer’s senior management teams
• Highly energetic, with a passion for helping customers achieve expected business outcomes

Qualifications:

1. Bachelors degree from Top institutes. MBA preferred
2. Excellent organization and project management capability
3. Excellent communications skills, both in written and verbal communications, with the ability to deliver effective presentations, group facilitation and one-on-one consultation is a must
4. Self started, self motivated, flexible and results driven
5. Experience using CRM tools

Preferred knowledge/skills:

1. Experience in Cybersecurity and understanding of network fundamentals. Good understanding of IT and Network Security fundamentals such as Firewalls, Proxies, and Web Security Gateways.
2. Experience working/leading teams in customer success functions for SaaS products.
3. Experience with Product Delivery Lifecycle

Community Management-

• Create a friendly environment to facilitate high member satisfaction
• Be thoughtful while interacting with members.
• Plan and launch community initiatives to create connections between members of different organizations. This might include targeted member introductions, recommending possible mentor matches, running networking events and managing communications within the space and through digital vehicles.
• Seek out information about the business and personal objectives of tenant organizations and their individual members.
• Foster a sense of inclusivity where fresh ideas are welcome
• Be knowledgeable about COWERKZ's membership contracts and guidelines.Explain these policies to members, as necessary.
• Oversee new member onboarding and member moves out of the space

Events Planning and Execution-

• Build a quarterly calendar of coworking events that engages all stakeholders:
• Current members: Educational (e.g., lunch and learns) and appreciation events (e.g., happy hours and themed parties)
• Future members: Lead generation and sales-related events
• Local community: Identify outside organizers and encourage them to use our event space. Depending on the exact nature, these events should also be used to build COWERKZ's CRM and digital community. 
• Manage to the allotted budget
• Present our community professionally
• With your team, oversee the event itself, from catering to a smooth event check-in process to cleanup

Business Development-

• With the owners, be responsible for setting and achieving sales objectives, occupancy rates and pricing
• Conduct tours for prospective members
• Contact the local press and community leaders to generate interest in COWERKZ.
• Maintain a positive relationship with key vendors and our landlord

Facilities and Space Management-

• Manage all centre operations to the satisfaction of members
• Maximize up-time and availability of key facilities assets like the Wifi network, kitchen, printers/copiers
• Keep members aware of facilities issues that may impact them
• Utilize a variety of coworking software applications manage the space and membership
• Make recommendations to the owners about new features or perks that will entice members
• Submit maintenance tickets for repairs to the facility and key equipment
• Ensure cleaning is conducted to spec

Data accuracy-

• Ensuring member data is updated and is current in the cowork platform
• Ensuring lead data is updated in the CRM platform
• Ensuring Community Data is being updated in the events database

Experience and Requirements

• 2 years experience with increasing responsibility in either a sales or customer service role
• Experience in co -curricular activities a plus.
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Technically capable. Able to understand and work with the variety of hardware and software applications that our space depends on.
• Experience with written content generation in a business environment and basic graphic design skills are a plus
• Interest in working independently with only occasional interactions with the owners
• Fluent in English. Ability to speak additional language is a plus.
• A high level ethics, empathy and dependability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent