Project Manager

Job Summary

An experienced Kong Admin Support Engineer is required to manage administration, support, and enhancement of the Kong API Gateway platform. The role involves handling custom plugin development, portal customization, troubleshooting, and ensuring secure and scalable API management in a production environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 administration and support for Kong API Gateway.
• Manage installation, configuration, upgrades, and performance tuning of Kong components.
• Develop and maintain custom Kong plugins based on business requirements.
• Customize and enhance the Developer Portal including UI, workflows, and integrations.
• Monitor API traffic, logs, and gateway health; resolve incidents and performance issues.
• Implement security policies such as authentication, rate limiting, and access control.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams for deployments and releases.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
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Required Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in Kong administration/support.
• Strong experience in custom plugin development using Lua or relevant technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Kong Developer Portal customization and management.

ABOUT COMPANY

Our client is one of the strongest Consumer brands in the Bakery category, having a 25000 sq ft state-of-the-art centralized manufacturing facility with European equipment near Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The founding team consists of a ‘Master Baker’ from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, one of the finest culinary institutes in the world and an IIM-A alumni with a McKinsey background.

JOB PURPOSE

The role requires to develop business by planning, directing and implementing sales strategies and programs to achieve or exceed the sales objectives for the company. Business Channels are Traditional Retail in Distribution, Modern retail, General trade and Corporate sales business for our bakery products

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To effectively manage the business in the concerned cities/regions and achieving the sales objectives

a. Setting targets and monitoring them monthly to ensure that they are in line with the business plan

b. Meeting the revenue and margin targets for the business

c. Generating sales of company products through a team of salesmen/retail promoters in order to achieve or exceed the annual sales targets

d. Analyzing the sales trend and taking corrective actions wherever necessary

e. Any other special assignments as applicable

2. To develop and maintain a strong sales infrastructure and an aggressive sales team

a. Managing, directing and coordinating the activities of the Area Sales Managers & Sales Officers

b. Sales team deployment as per the company's requirement and as per the budget

c. Accomplishing sales human resource objectives by orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees in assigned retail stores

d. Appointing the right set of channel partners with appropriate experience, good infrastructure, financially strong and with an attitude to grow.

3. To plan, prepare and exist control over sales budget, sales forecast, sales plan etc.

a. Developing sales plan to ensure optimum utilization of resources in the region

b. Meeting sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements

c. Preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analysing variances and initiating corrective actions

d. Ensuring that all promotions are within the budget

e. Preparing sales growth blueprint for the future

4. To ensure coordination and relationship management with distributors, customers, as well as other departments

a. Ensuring that distributors and customers in the region are provided with information about new products and services in order to improve sales in the region

b. Developing and maintaining an efficient distribution network

c. Ensuring commercial hygiene by monitoring damages, complaints etc

d. Liaising with the Marketing team to ensure that adequate marketing support by way of merchandising and promotions is available in order to provide brand visibility and promote sales in the region

e. To continuously gain and update category and channel expertise

f. Continuously acquiring knowledge regarding the industry, market construct, and customer behaviour to enable effective business plans

g. Acquire knowledge regarding competition product, strategies to counter attack competition in the best possible manner

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

1. Knowledge: 

a. Sound knowledge of sales and sales administration processes

b. Strong understanding of modern trade and general trade

c. Understanding of perishable/limited shelf life products (e.g. dairy, bakery, juices etc) would be preferable

d. Knowledge of ERP systems would be a plus

2. Skills: 

a. Strong leadership skills

b. Excellent communication and negotiation skills

c. Presentation skills

d. Ability to manage and lead a team

e. Strong decision making ability

f. Ability to build relationships

g. Excellent business acumen

3. Attitude: 

a. Self-motivator

b. Aggressive

c. Sincere

d. Positive approach to problem solving

e. Commitment to achieving the sales targets

f. Dynamic and exploratory

4. Educational Level

a. Graduation: Any specialization

b. Post-Graduation (Must-have): PGDM/ MBA in Marketing or Sales Management

5. Experience

a. Preferably be from FMCG or Organised Modern retail background

Business Development Associate |Nimesa Technologies
(INSIDE-SALES)
Location: Bangalore, India
About [Nimesa Technologies Pvt. Ltd.]
Nimesa is a fast-growing enterprise software start-up founded by ex Netapp, EMC, Oracle executives,
that is looking to revolutionize Disaster Management of cloud-native applications through its
proprietary patent-pending and award-winning ADM (Application Data Mesh) technology. We are
venture funded and some of the leading banks, govt agencies, healthcare, saas, and e-commerce
companies use our product to be disaster-ready. Please find more information at www.nimesa.io.
What to expect from the role
• Work experience with different cloud services
• Work in collaboration with a team
• Guided by experts and professionals in the field and learning on the job
• Learn to sell enterprise-class scalable solutions.
• Experiencing in CRM Tools and Prospecting Methodology
Responsibilities
Here is the ICP you will need to work on:
• North America and India geography
• B2B businesses, 100-2500 employees in size
• Selling to enterprises via an outbound sales motion
• Primary buyer of Nimesa tends to be CTO\CIO\VP Engineering\IT heads\CISO\Head of DevOps
• Users of Nimesa are Devops team/SRE engineers
• Conduct market research based on the company ICP
• Create a personalized and customized pitch for the customer
• Reach out to them through LinkedIn, email, and phone to set up an in-depth discussion with our
solution expert
• Maintain hygiene in CRM
Preferred requirements
• 0-3 years of experience in demand generation through various channels, qualification, appointment
the setting, email marketing, demo products
• Experience selling to CIO\IT Managers is preferred
• Would love to be part of a high technology startup based in India
• Willing to work in US\UK time zone, if required
• Great communicator over phone, email and LinkedIn
• Consultative selling skills
• Would be ready to learn best in class sales process and ambition to grow fast
Nice to have requirements
• Experience selling to USA\UK Market is preferable
• Knowledge or experience in Backup\recovery, DR market or Selling AWS customers is desirable.
• Experience with market research, and inbound\outbound marketing is a huge plus

Location: Gurgaon, India.

Job Type: Full-time

Experience: 1-4 years

We’re looking for an Account Manager - Influencer Marketing with an ability to identify and build relations with prominent influencers and thought leaders to convert our company vision into a simple, intuitive, and awesome branding platform.

We are looking for an enthusiastic person who is

● Empathetic and eager to address the needs of brands

● Comfortable working with the ambiguity inherent in startups and small teams, and are;

● Able to display ownership and communicate with members from diverse teams with ease

Sounds like your kind of company? Great! Here’s what this role entails:

● Maintaining relations with the clients.

● Connecting and communicating with influencers.

● Maintaining relations with influencers.

● Executing the influencer marketing campaign.

● Working on the day-to-day operations.

● Reporting to the manager of daily operations.

● Negotiation with Influencers

● Analysis and measurement of the campaign and drafting post-campaign report

● Identify and build relationships with prominent influencers and thought leaders.

● Attend relevant events for networking and business purposes.

● Develop content ideas and write and curate content.

● Research relevant industry experts, competitors, target audience and users.

● Brainstorm new, creative approaches to influencer campaigns.

● Keep abreast of emerging trends, technologies and influencers.

● Liaising with the marketing team to create and coordinate marketing strategies that work across different channels.

What you’ll need to succeed

● Bachelor's degree in Marketing

● Proven track record in outreach campaign strategies

● In depth knowledge of social media marketing industry

● Impeccable verbal and written communication skills

● Well organized with great time management skills

● Outstanding project management skills

● Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills

● Networking aptitude

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in development using Python OR Node.js
• Experience with React.js

• Previous experience with Shopify customization is desirable
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Short runs at Bourdaina are 3 month fast track programs with clearly defined processes & objectives. Atleast one short run is mandatory before joining us for long haul.

Here's what you'll do day-to-day:

•  Actively seeking out new sales opportunities through networking and social media.
• A sales intensive role where you help restaurants, F&B brand, Hotels and FMCG brands by selling Bourdaina products
• Demonstrating and presenting products and services.
• Account management for key clients of the organisation.
• Manage end-to-end client relationships including pitching, negotiation, contracting, billing/invoicing, and payment collection, result tracking and troubleshooting.

Here's what we're looking for:

• People with 0 - 3 years of work experience. Relevant experience in B2B sales will be great!
• Someone who comes with a strong sense of initiative and personal leadership demonstrating the ability to function independently, and comfortable working in a startup environment.
• A person who is articulate, organized, detail-oriented, and has the ability to multitask.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

• Work with outside data sources and APIs

• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK.

• Proficient in different versions of Android, and know how to deal with different screen sizes.

• Strong technical expertise on Android device platforms.

• Good exposure to custom UI development.

• Candidate should be responsible for Design applications around natural user interfaces.

• Familiarity with Restful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services.

• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices.

• Ability to understand business and technical requirements.

• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

• 5-Days a week working

• Regular Refreshments

• Trips and Activities