Senior Inside sales (Edtech sales)

Procurement Management

• Oversee and manage the procurement of raw materials and packaging materials for cosmetic production.
• Identify, evaluate, and establish strong relationships with new and existing suppliers.
• Negotiate contracts, pricing, and terms to ensure cost-effectiveness without compromising quality.
• Ensure timely delivery of materials to maintain seamless production schedules.
• Conduct market research and attend trade fairs/exhibitions across India to source innovative products and stay updated on industry trends.

Production Coordination

• Collaborate with production teams to ensure availability of materials for efficient manufacturing.
• Develop and implement production schedules, optimizing processes to enhance efficiency and minimize waste.
• Coordinate with supply chain and logistics to ensure smooth material flow and inventory management.

Research and Development Support

• Work with the R&D team to identify and procure suitable raw materials for new product formulations.
• Stay updated on emerging trends in cosmetics and skincare to support innovation and development.

Quality Assurance

• Ensure that procured materials meet regulatory and company quality standards.
• Work closely with the quality control team to address any quality issues and implement corrective actions.

Budgeting and Cost Management

• Perform cost-benefit analyses to optimize spending and secure the best value.
• Conduct forecasting and variance analysis to align procurement with financial goals.
• Review and approve expenses related to procurement, ensuring adherence to budgetary constraints.

Team Collaboration

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including production, quality assurance, and supply chain, to meet organizational goals.
• Actively participate in team meetings, contributing insights and recommendations for improvement.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Cosmetology, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 2-3 years in procurement in the cosmetics, beauty, or skincare industry.
• Strong knowledge of raw material and packaging material procurement.
• Proficiency in production scheduling, market research, and supplier negotiations.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective vendor and team collaboration.
• Detail-oriented, with strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
• Proficiency in data analysis and reporting.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and industry standards in cosmetics production is an advantage.

About the Company:

Our client has created a sustainable livelihood program for urban disadvantaged youth. Fostering agency, workplace competencies, and skills in youth, unleashes social and economic transformation in the communities that the youth come from. The organization runs through a public-private partnership that empowers the Government, Corporates, NGOs, and Citizens to work together toward changing lives. The provision of location and capital expenditure for the organization is taken care of by the Government. Corporates contribute through CSR funds to provide operational expenses. NGOs come on board to provide various skilling courses to the youth. We are growing at a fast pace in various other cities in India.

Job Details:

Designation: Employment Engagement Manager

Reporting structure: Will be reporting to the Project Manager

Base Location: Pune, Maharashtra

Roles and responsibilities:

1. Develop, strengthen and proactively connect with new employers to increase our youth’s opportunities to secure a sustainable livelihood.

2. Maintain and strengthen current employer engagement activities including employer events, and support the Mentoring Programme and management of the vacancy portal and customer relationship management tool/platform to reflect the needs of our youth and maximize opportunities for employers to engage with our students.

3. Understand the context of youth enrolled in the program in order to inform and identify areas of action and use statistical analysis to improve employer engagement activity.

4. Establish, strengthen, and evaluate effective communication with skilling partners, trainers, mentors, and youth.

5. Working with the Program Head in partnership with central placement cells, and other programs within the organization to establish and evaluate priorities and provision.

6. Be responsible for the effective income generation of the youth above minimum wages.

7. Use expert knowledge, research, creative ideas, and activities to identify new opportunities for collaboration, within industry and across employment sectors, to enhance our delivery of activities to students to support their career planning and development.

8. Undertaking monitoring of progress via regular 1:1 meetings, positive engagement and communication with employers, and tracking the progress of our placed youth.

Eligibility:

● Any Graduate/Post Graduate with 5+ years of experience in the logistics sector, preferably from a corporate sales background.

What are we looking for:

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills and digital comfort.

● Self-motivated with a willingness to take initiative and solve complex problems.

● Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes high-pressure environment.

● Passion for social impact and belief in the impact that can be delivered by purpose-led engagement of the workforce.

● Exceptional articulation skills (written and verbal) to present - ideas, approaches, and solutions.

● Willing to travel.

● Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, & Excel) and Google Docs.

• Should guide store visitors and sell the products.
• Responsible for all stores functions.
• Shall be responsible for maintaining all store records.
• Preparation of stocks statements.
• Preparation of Purchase Orders.
• Day to day issues and receipts, ledgers, stock statement reports and DMR
• Preparation of Daily & Monthly Consumption Report.
• Checking of received Material with invoice and purchase order.

Required Skills:

• Should have computer Knowledge
• Good listening, presentation and decision making skills

Job Description

POSITION: Quality Assurance Automation Analyst

DESCRIPTION:

The Quality Assurance Automation Analyst works with the QA staff to perform Quality Assurance Automation planning, application testing and developing scripts using established automated testing tools before and after production implementation. Focus on creating test scripts, and frameworks and executing functional, regression and end-to-end automated scripts for products' front-end and back-end applications. This role is responsible for executing the automated regression tests before release and on demand. The candidate should be willing to step into a Manual QA role and perform Manual Testing on a need basis.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Accountable for the Quality Automation planning and testing of the application for the assigned projects.
• Performs timely reporting of planning and testing efforts.
• Develop and maintain automated scripts for all product testing using Selenium WebDriver with Java implementation. 
• Develop manual and automated test cases/scripts.
• Able to shift between Automation and Manual Testing tasks on a need basis.
• With support from QA staff and the configuration team, writes and executes test cases for the projects assigned.
• Achieves and maintains excellent content knowledge of assigned products.
• Perform daily; weekly, monthly and on-demand execution automated regression tests.
• Identify and document issues found in modules and products during automated regression to assist with easy recreation.
• Communicate daily and weekly progress.
• Collaborates with management to continuously provide input to improve the QA process.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in software testing with 2-3 years of experience in developing automation scripts using Selenium Web Driver.

• Saas industry experience is preferred

• Experience in developing Automation Frameworks from scratch. 

• Strong in Java programming (Core JAVA) 

• Experience using Selenium Grid is preferred.

• Good knowledge of Web Services.

• Working knowledge of web technologies including basic knowledge HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and DOM

• Experience in QA Methodologies - Agile preferred

• Experience in analysing requirements & create Test scenarios.

• Knowledge of Defect Management Process & Defect lifecycle.

• Working knowledge of Test Management Tool.

• Working knowledge of database (e.g. MySQL).

Candidate will work in Sales Department too for generating business of Company by selling Digital Marketing Packages.

Candidate will be working on backend operations on the client's accounts at Amazon, Flipkart and Meesho. 

Candidate should have knowledge of Excel Formulas.

Candidate should be an easy learner and needs to be clever enough to understand the backend process easily.  

Candidate should be able to write and understand English.

Candidate should be smart enough to grab the training which will be provided here by our Organization.

Candidate should be open to learning whenever the need arises.

Candidate should be soft spoken while speaking to clients.

• Minimum of 3 years of Microsoft Technologies stack (ASP.Net, MVC, WEB API) having web development and UI development experience (frontend and backend).
• Proficient understanding of Single Page Application architecture and frameworks
• Must have exposure to any Relational DB (MSSQL, MYSQL).
• Strong understanding of data structure, SOLID Principles and problem solving skills.
• Strong understanding of Design Patterns for Real world problems.
• Conceptual knowledge of multi-threaded programming and performance monitoring tools.
• Experience in working on trending technologies, .Net Core, Node JS, NoSQL Databases.
• Experience in Micro-services architecture & Micro front end applications
• Experience with Unit Testing framework.
• Proficient understanding of Web UI test methodologies, frameworks and tools, such as BDD, Selenium.
• Proficient understanding of web markup, protocol and client-side scripting technologies in general, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, JQuery, REST API, Angular.
• Must possess strong attention to details, high aesthetical taste, and ability to apply user-centric design approach to produce a delightful and highly usable UI/UX.
• Additional Knowledge/experience Is a Plus
• Experience with automated deployment and associated technologies (helm/yaml/ansible/docker)
• Familiarity with code versioning tools
• Experience in Security Domain or Security Tools for Application Validation/Scanning will be a plus.
• Ability to effectively communicate design, specification, test and implementation details.
• Occasional flexibility to work outside of normal business hours to collaborate with remote teams.
• Proven tracks on the ability to work independently on assigned tasks.
• Excellent analytical and multitasking skills and ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment.

Key Skills:

.NET Core, .NET MVC, .NET , Windows services, Websockets , Client server , REST API, Angular JS , Angular 8+ , dockers , micro services

You’ll be our: Business Software Team Lead

You’ll be based at: IBC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru

You’ll be Aligned with: Engineering Manager, Ather Web Stack.

You’ll be a member of:  Software & Intelligence

What you’ll do at Ather:

• Guide development team efforts towards successful project delivery.

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.

• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.

• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web-based business applications.

• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards. Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.

• Package and support deployment of releases.

• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications.

• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.

• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.

• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.

Here’s what we are looking for: 

• Expert level of experience working with technologies like Nodejs and javascript.

• Strong DevOps focus and experience building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies.

• Hands-on experience in writing applications at scale.

• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.

• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.

• Expertise with code reviews with a major focus on best performance, scalability, security and future expansion.

• Should have worked on Scalable projects / large applications / Microservices architecture.

• Should have worked primarily on Backend Development projects.

• Good to have Object Oriented Development in languages like Java.

• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns.

• Experience in leading a high performing engineering team of ~5 members.

You bring to Ather:

• 5+ years’ experience as a Software Developer

• Prior experience in a technical leadership position

• College or University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline