Sales Team Leader

Role - Manager – Paid Search/Social, (Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai)

Overview of job -

Our Client is the world’s largest media investment company which is a part of WPP. They are a global digital transformation agency with 1200 employees across 21 nations. Our team of experts support clients in programmatic, social, paid search, analytics, technology, organic search, affiliate marketing, e-commerce and across traditional channels.

We are currently looking for a Manager – Performance Marketing 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. Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Director – Performance Marketing

What your day job looks like -

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

● Support the training and growth of your team

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

● Be accountable for consistent work delivery to GroupM 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 Search and Social campaigns across multiple self-serve biddable platforms

● You have a high-level knowledge of Paid Search and paid social platforms (AdWords, Bing, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, SA360, GA, AdWords Editor)

● Kenshoo, Marine, Salesforce, etc is a plus

● 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 office and Google Sheets 

Generates IT (information technology) sales and business, develops relationships with new clients, maintains advanced knowledge of our services, and establishes and meets sales goals. One of the most important responsibilities is helping organizations maximize profits.

• Generate new sales leads, negotiate client pricing, and forecast sales revenue

• Setting goals and developing plans for business and revenue growth

• Researching, planning, and implementing new target market initiatives

• Pursuing leads and moving them through the sales cycle

• Developing quotes and proposals for prospective clients

• Setting goals for the business development team and developing strategies to meet those goals

Should also have:

• Prior experience required working with international clients (US, UK, Middle East)
• Should be a pleasant personality to work with
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Should have 3 years plus of experience in a similar field.

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for https://www.simplilearn.com/top-benefits-of-learning-devops-article" target="_blank">DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate https://www.simplilearn.com/best-ci-cd-tools-article" target="_blank">CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (https://www.simplilearn.com/open-source-pipeline-tools-for-devops-article" target="_blank">CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members 
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

• Ensure successful implementation of the new merchant with the goal to increase the number of company Digital ambassadors within the industry.
• Work closely with the merchant and the various CPD teams to guarantee a high-quality project delivery.
• Develop and execute an appropriate implementation plan for on-boarding, testing, and launch
• Configure the Product suite contracted by the merchant.
• Provide training to a select group of the merchant’s staff.
• Document key learning’s and collaborates with Solution and Technical engineers to streamline the integration and onboarding process
• Ensure transition the configured client to the internal Service Desk team and mentor its staff so they can provide full support to the client.
• Analyze and produce statistics and management reports for the leadership team

Education, skills, and experience

• Hands-on experience (1-5 years) and understanding of the eCommerce payment ecosystem and various roles/players (Payment Service Providers, payment schemes, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills whereby fluent English (written and oral) is a must.
• Coordination of end-to-end technical implementation of e-commerce payment products
• Expertise in credit card and international alternative payment solutions
• Expertise in PCI compliance and latest card schemes mandates
• Ability to manage simultaneously multiple projects and client relationships
• Knowledge of Internet and payments API related technologies including JSON, XML, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Strong SQL knowledge
• Former experience in programming tools, including .NET and Java

Job description:

Red Ant Media helps its clients in building digital creative solutions to help them achieve their business goals. As an outsourced product development company, we embrace the crossroads of Creative design, Web development, Web design, and Digital Marketing.

We are a data-driven agency, who bring together data-driven insights, user objective, brand, technology, content, and creative vision.

Experience: 1 -2 years

Location: Chennai

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions ( MySQL, MongoDB)
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

Skills Required:

• Knowledge of Node.js and framework available for it (such as express).
• Familiarity with Progressive Web Applications and Single Page Applications and frameworks (Vue, React, Angular with Typescript, etc).
• Hand on and implement complex Angular applications, directives, pipes, interceptors, services, etc.
• Node-based module loaders and task runners (Webpack, Gulp, or Grunt), creating npm modules.
• Proficient understating of code versioning tools, such as GIT.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, SCSS, and CSS3.

- Profound knowledge about state-of-the-art technologies and standards (PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS, AJAX, JQuery, XML, and Linux) 

Experience with web services and Various frameworks (CakePHP, Symfony, ZEND, Laravel, etc) -

Capability to create an extension or module.

- Must be able to work on own initiative as well as part of a team 
- Experience in a structured development environment 
- Strong knowledge of Core PHP Skills & object-oriented programming (OOP) Has knowledge of any one of Git, BitBucket, SVN, etc. code management repositories. 
- Immediate joiner prefer. 
- Total Exp - 2+ to 4 years 
- Notice period - not more than 30 days

Responsibilities and Duties -

You will be taking ownership of a big project already in production. This project already has 25L registered users.