Product Manager

Work Mode: Hybrid (2 days WFO)

We are looking for a Data Engineer who is a self-starter to work in a diverse and fast-paced environment within our Enterprise Data team. This is an individual contributor role that is responsible for designing and developing of data solutions that are strategic for the business and built on the latest technologies and patterns,regional and global level by utilizing in-depth knowledge of data, infrastructure, technologies and data engineering experience.

Responsibilities

· Design, Architect, and Develop solutions leveraging cloud big data technology to ingest, process and analyze large, disparate data sets to exceed business requirements

· Develop systems that ingest, cleanse and normalize diverse datasets, develop data pipelines from various internal and external sources and build structure for previously unstructured data

· Interact with internal colleagues and external professionals to determine requirements, anticipate future needs, and identify areas of opportunity to drive data development

· Develop good understanding of how data will flow & stored through an organization across multiple applications such as CRM, Broker & Sales tools, Finance, HR etc

· Unify, enrich, and analyze variety of data to derive insights and opportunities

· Design & develop data management and data persistence solutions for application use cases leveraging relational, non-relational databases and enhancing our data processing capabilities

· Develop POCs to influence platform architects, product managers and software engineers to validate solution proposals and migrate

· Develop data lake solution to store structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources and provide technical guidance to help migrate colleagues to modern technology platform

· Contribute and adhere to CI/CD processes, development best practices and strengthen the discipline in Data Engineering Org

· Mentor other members in the team and organization and contribute to organizations’ growth.

Soft Skills

· Independent and able to manage, prioritize & lead workloads

· Team player, Reliable, self-motivated, and self-disciplined individual capable of executing on multiple projects simultaneously within a fast-paced environment working with cross functional teams

· Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Technical Skills

· 8+ years’ work experience and bachelor’s degree in Information Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a quantitative discipline in science, business, or social science.

· Hands-on engineer who is curious about technology, should be able to quickly adopt to change and one who understands the technologies supporting areas such as Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure(preferred), etc.), Micro Services, Streaming Technologies, Network, Security, etc.

· 5 or more years of active development experience as a data developer using Python-spark, Spark Streaming, Azure SQL Server, Cosmos DB/Mongo DB, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Search, Azure Data factory and Azure synapse analytics, Git Integration with Azure DevOps, etc.

· Experience with designing & developing data management and data persistence solutions for application use cases leveraging relational, non-relational databases and enhancing our data processing capabilities

· Experience with building, testing and enhancing data curation pipelines and integrating data from a wide variety of sources like DBMS, File systems, APIs and streaming systems for various KPIs and metrics development with high data quality and integrity

· Experience with maintaining the health and monitoring of assigned data engineering capabilities that span analytic functions by triaging maintenance issues; ensuring high availability of the platform; monitoring workload demands; working with Infrastructure Engineering teams to maintain the data platform; serve as an SME of one or more application

· 3+ years of experience working with source code control systems and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools                                                 

Responsibilities

• Take product ideas from ideation to implementation
• Design and develop backend services that expand the capabilities of the product
• Write high quality, structured application/interface code and tests
• Lead engineering discussions to ensure the best practices, maintainability and security of the application
• Participate in design and code reviews

We are looking for

• 3+ years of experience building quality applications
• Proficient in Node JS, NoSQL databases
• Strong working knowledge of Web technologies and APIs
• Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas
• Experience in planning, designing architecture and working with teams
• Experience with SaaS product or an early stage startup is a plus

About the role

Media Planning Executives are responsible for analyzing data, thinking creatively and dreaming up innovative strategies to make sure marketing campaigns reach the right target audience in the most effective way possible. Armed with this critical analysis, media planning executives devise, propose, or recommend strategies for using certain media effectively to attract and retain customers, increase brand recognition, and maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Some of the things we’d like you to do:

● Creation of tactical plan presentation and supporting media plan templates
● Creation of campaign analysis plan 
● Oversee the successful launch of campaigns 
● Maintain accuracy and timely updates of deliverable tracking documents for team
● Collate commentary on media performance and conduct first review on quality
● Adherence to team quality standard for reporting template and delivery
● Keep consistent track of campaign performance and target (monthly) across all channels, flagging needs for intervention
● Use understanding of campaign and marketplace to contribute ideas for campaign experiments and also prioritize experiments
● Manage accurate forecasts, media plans, and all key media planning documentation

A bit about yourself:

● At least 2-3 years of experience in Tradional media advertising
● Working knowledge and effective vocabulary across Offline & Online 
● Experience with Media Research Tools (Comscore, GWI, TGI)
● Strong organizational skills with a keen ability to prioritize and multitask.
● Proven problem solving skills and ability to think outside of the box
● Ability to work independently and collaborate in a team environment
● Detail oriented and responsive, deadline-driven with strong reasoning skills

What you can expect from Essence

Essence’s mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. We do this by employing the world’s very best talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of today’s digital marketing landscape. It’s important that we hire people whose values reflect those of our own: genuine, results-focused, daring and insightful. As an Essence employee, we promise you a workplace that invests in your career, cares for you and is fun and engaging. We believe these factors create a workplace where you can be yourself and do amazing work. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or marital status. 

What you will do:

• Work with stakeholders (product owners, project managers, and scrum masters) to define and clarify requirements.
• Provide technical and work direction to the other global developers (be their conduit to the local team)
• Hands-on development of defined architecture and design of both front-end and back-end programming.
• Ability to keep informed of industry trends and technologies.
• Ability to break down complex requirements into specific work items.
• Implement and carry out unit testing.
• Leverage the DevOps team to ensure the product can be automatically built, deployed, and tested using CI/CD pipelines across all of the release cycles from dev to production.
• Strong grasp of modern security principles and how to apply them to applications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven ability to develop resilient code that performs, and scales based on application usage.
• 6+ years of experience in developing using JavaScript and JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as Angular and React
• 6+ years of experience building applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Web, JSON/XAML-based REST API.
• 3+ years of experience building RESTful web services using NodeJS
• Experience with Unit Testing Frameworks like UnitJS, Mocha
• Understanding of code versioning tools such as Git or Visual Studio Team Services
• Experience with Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Atom or Eclipse
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a distributed and global environment
• Understanding of building applications deployed in the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) leveraging PaaS and IaaS Services
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with a diverse group of people

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Strong problem-solving orientation
• Can manage multiple competing tasks/projects at the same time
• Strong team and customer service focus

We are looking for an exuberant talent that can help spearhead our sales & marketing efforts. An individual who can thrive and adapt in a fast-paced and competitive start-up Ecosystem.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading the sales & marketing team
• Designing and implementing sales strategies that drive enhanced revenue generation for the business.
• Design new marketing strategies promote and build the brand of the company
• Maintain a good relationship with important external key customers & channel partners.
• Follow a lean methodology to engage deeper with clients through technology and Analytics.
• Closely monitor and analyse developments in the Pharmaceutical industry to identify opportunities and threats ahead of the curve to guide and direct the company’s strategy accordingly.
• Review and monitor the team performance

Candidate Profile:

• MBA or other relevant graduate degrees from reputed institutions
• Work experience of 5+ years of in Sales & Marketing preferably in the Pharmaceutical Industry
• Proven track record of attaining high sales growth in a challenging environment through proper utilisation of resources and involvement of team members.
• Should be a thoroughbred team-player with inherent abilities to mobilise and motivate teams.
• Should have uncompromising ethics and integrity and must lead by example.