Senior Research Associate (Nutraceuticals / Herbal Food)

Title : Business Analyst

Locations: Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, and Delhi (Remote).

Job Type: Fulltime

Business Analysts conduct market analyses, analyzing both product lines and the overall profitability of the business. In addition, they develop and monitor data quality metrics and ensure business data and reporting needs are met. Strong technology, analytical and communication skills are must-have traits

Essential Responsibilities:

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
• Hands on Insurance domain experience – added advantage
• Staying up to date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.
• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
• Understand the business requirements and documenting and translating into features / user stories.
• Ensure the system design is perfect as per the needs of the customer. Participating in functionality testing and user acceptance testing of the new features.
• Developing business artifacts in relate to the client business and conducting formal training sessions for the team.
• Acting as a coach on assigned projects and assignments; and providing business related direction and clarification to the developers and other project stakeholders.
• Develop a team culture where everyone thinks from end user perspective.
• Performing requirements analysis.
• Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts.
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
• Working closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff.
• Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.
• Allocating resources and maintaining cost efficiency.
• Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements.
• Performing user acceptance testing.
• Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.
• Updating, implementing, and maintaining procedures.
• Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Serving as a liaison between stakeholders and users.
• Managing competing resources and priorities.
• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.

Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree in business or related field or an MBA.
• Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA®) or PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)®
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in business analysis or a related field.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
• Advanced technical skills.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.

• Developing periodic (annual, quarterly and monthly} targets and sales plans for the business basis overall product category targets and capacity, past sales performance and market potential
• Evaluating and selecting appropriate sales model and distribution channels to further sales growth across the focused zones
• Developing and managing the sales budget and ensuring internal operating costs are within the allocated budget
• Ensuring top line and volume targets and gross margin contribution of sales across all regions, identifying areas of concern and driving corrective action
• Driving market intelligence to identify market trends, customer preferences, competitive action, new product introductions, etc. to build and Implement sales campaigns
• Analysing and evaluating the effectiveness of sales, methods, costs, and results and providing feedback to the team
• Maintaining key customer relationships and developing strategies to expand organization's market share
• Periodically reviewing customer engagement and interaction processes and identifying areas of improvement to achieve higher levels of customer service
• Coordinating with external dealers to obtain detailed information on market and consumer trends and feedback on customer satisfaction
• Maintaining strong relationships with key customers, distributors and wholesalers to ensure sustainable and repeat business
• Communicating and aligning with relevant internal stakeholders to ensure on-ground implementation of the sales strategy
• Leading talent acquisition activities to build a capable and effective sales force
• Assessing performance of direct reports and providing guidance, coaching and mentoring to direct reports

Technology Lead

This incorporates several tasks and responsibilities:

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes

• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns and MVP architecture

• Ability to create custom interactions with ViewGroups

• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

• Experience in AR or react native

• Knack for benchmarking and optimization

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
  Experience in RxJava, Kotlin development, Android Studio, Material Design, MVC/MVP/MVVM and RxAndroid (is a plus)