Sales Manager

Role - Manager - Paid Social, India (Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai)

Overview of job -

Our Client is the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for an Manager – Performance Marketing for its Services Hub . In this role, you will be responsible for a massive opportunity to build and be a part of largest performance marketing setup. This role assumes responsibility of crafting a performance strategy for clients and create success stories. 

This role reports to the Director – Performance Marketing  

What your day job looks like -

● Develop strong relationships with counterparts in regional teams (Europe, U.S., Asia)

● Support the training and growth of your local Social team

● Enforce Social best practices with a focus on platform expertise, consistency, and quality of work delivery

● Be accountable for consistent work delivery to regional teams by ensuring a high quality of output

● Serve as point of escalation for your team and take ownership of resolving any issue

● Provide career development and coaching for your team

● Line manage 2-5 direct reports

● Provide timely and actionable feedback to the team to aid in their development, improvement, and progress. Provide awareness and recognition for jobs well done

● Present strong and effective communication across all levels 

What you’ll bring:

● You are proficient in English

● You have 5+ year experience of planning and managing Social campaigns

● You have a high-level knowledge of Paid social platforms

● You possess strong analytical skills and a natural affinity for numbers ● You are able to examine raw data, draw conclusions and develop actionable recommendations as needed

● You have experience maintaining quality standards at scale

● You have experience providing service to local teams from a centralized location

● You have a passion for everything digital, with an active interest and understanding of online advertising industry trends

● You have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

● You are proficient in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets 

Responsibilities:

·        Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including hardware engineers, system architects, and product managers, to define software requirements and specifications for embedded systems.

·        Design and develop efficient, reliable, and scalable embedded software solutions that meet the defined requirements.

·        Write, test, and debug code in programming languages commonly used for embedded systems, such as C, C++, and assembly language.

·        Interface with hardware components, such as sensors, actuators, microcontrollers, and communication interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C,CAN etc.).

·        Develop and implement device drivers, firmware, and low-level software to control hardware peripherals.

·        Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards.

·        Perform unit testing, integration testing, and system testing of the embedded software.

·        Analyse and optimize system performance, memory usage, and power consumption.

·        Collaborate with the quality assurance team to identify and resolve software defects.

·        Stay up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and technologies related to embedded systems and software development.

·        Document software design, code, and test procedures for internal and external use.

·        Provide technical support to other teams during product integration, testing, and deployment.

Qualifications:

·        Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

·        Proven experience in embedded software development, including designing, coding, testing, and debugging.

·        Proficiency in programming languages such as C and C++.

·        Familiarity with Embedded C, 32-bit microcontroller,16-bit microcontroller hardware interfaces.

·        Knowledge of real-time operating systems (RTOS) and multi-threaded programming.

·        Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex hardware-software interactions.

·        Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team.

·        Familiarity with communication protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet) is desirable.

·        Knowledge of security considerations in embedded systems is an advantage.

Location: Chennai

0.5 - 3 years of experience 

• Day to day maintenance of the website. Along with updating banners, products, product content, blogs, SEO recommendations also maintain a tracker of all updates on the website
• Coordinate with design and development team to implement strategy
• Create project plan and timelines for execution
• Maintaining and recording minutes of the meeting with internal and external stakeholders
• Keep a track of website health: by conducting regular test plans, working on site experience as well as PageSpeed insights
• Provide inputs on improving website experience basis GA reports
• Preparing monthly website performance reports
• Ensure smooth client communications 
• All mails must be responded to within 24 hours on working days and any conversation about on-going/upcoming projects over whatsapp/call must be documented on mail
• Keep up-to-date with industry best practices and monitor competitor websites
• Stay abreast of new developments in software, trends, and practices. Maintain good awareness of key plugins to be able to rapidly select the best approach for a new site build or update

• TAT of website uploads
• 4 recommendations from monthly reports adapted by the clients
• 2 case studies based on successful recommendations
• <4 escalations per year

• Strong attention to detail with an analytical mind and problem-solving attitude
• Ability to manage and work with teams
• Ability to adapt to new tools and softwares
• Google Analytics Power User
• Has experience operating at least 1 CMS
• Self starter attitude, proactive
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with excellent interpersonal skills

• Google Analytics
• Hotjar
• Microsoft Clarity
• CMS: Shopify, Wordpress, Magento, Drupal, Sitecore
• Shopify Analytics
• Google Search Console
• Google Tag Manager
• Google Docs, Slides, Sheets | Excel, Word, Powerpoint

• Smooth onboarding of fellows post recruitment
• Understanding the pre-existing technical and other skills as well as improvement needs in each area throughout training and deployment
• Weekly monitoring of progress as well as key strength and improvement area of each fellow
• Planning remediation in consultation with training head and trainers, weekly/ daily check ins and query resolution to sustain high level of motivation
• Monitoring and taking steps towards maintaining high performance standards post deployment
• Implementing upskilling learning and development initiatives based on individual fellow requirement and ensuring consistent appraisal and manager satisfaction
• Continuously monitoring and improving the Fellows’ performance during training and on-site, as well as analyzing client feedback, upskilling needs, retention and billability

Desired Candidate Profile

• Minimum 10+ years’ experience in managing technical talent in either talent management or technical manager roles
• Training experience desirable
• Awareness of job role skill and capability requirement for data engineer or similar technical job role
• Experience in performance management and employment relations
• Strong coaching and mentoring capabilities
• High data-driven and process oriented mindset
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Ability to influence and persuade and manage difficult conversations
• High levels of confidentiality

• Develop digital marketing strategy by studying economic indicators, tracking changes in supply and demand, identifying customers and their current and future needs, and monitoring the competition.
•  Plan and execute all digital marketing, including SEO/SEM, keywords, marketing database, email, social media and display advertising campaigns.
•  Plan, monitoring & maintaining company online presence on social media.
•  Employing online marketing analytics to gather information from web and social media pages.
•  Measure and report performance of all digital marketing campaigns, and assess against goals.
•  Acquire insight in online marketing trends and keep strategies up-to-date.
• Manage all digital marketing channels - FB, Insta, Marketplaces such as Amazon, Flipkart.
• Ability to execute campaigns across all online selling platforms. 
• Prepare and manage digital marketing budgets, analytics & reports.