Software Engineering Manager

About Company

Our client is a brand co-creation platform that transforms powerful ideas into authentic, profitable, and experience-led brands that can define the future of brands in key consumption categories. They now have 10 brands that are active and these are available across its own D2C channel, ecomm platforms and general and modern trade channels.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Lead Brand Marketing, Strategy, Content and Communication for existing and new brands
• Creating Brand positioning and differentiation strategies, generating brand anticipation and planning Brand launch keeping in mind the key insights gained from customer and competitor analysis
• Translate brand strategies into brand plans, brand positioning, category, product planning and go-to-market execution plans
• Accountable to lead marketing campaigns, content, understanding the brand well, and integrating the brand communication across all channels
• Own and drive social media presence for the brand
• Develop & conduct marketing campaigns to increase traffic & conversion
• Create & deliver ambitious growth plans for the brand's D2C platforms and take onus of D2C business delivery.
• Driving performance on all performance-marketing channels such as Facebook, Google etc, as well as organic, direct and affiliate sources of revenue and traffic.
• Oversee operation of own websites, app(s), content platform(s) and any other digital D2C initiatives.
• Responsible for customer retention marketing activities and merchandising strategy for scaling up revenue.
• Plan and deliver on retention targets within time and budget with focus on key channels such as Email, SMS & Push Notifications.
• Work closely on increase conversions, cross-sell, and drive platform specific influencer activities, and focus on upselling to increase the customer engagement via multiple digital channels.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE TEAM:

• 7-10 years business and / or marketing experience in relevant start-up/ e-commerce/ D2C/FMCG organizations handling a large brand or 2/3 independent brands.
• Experience working for multiple brands at a time
• Strong experience using performance marketing to drive traffic growth and brand awareness
• Expertise in a similar role as well as experience building effective multi-channel marketing strategies, including affiliate marketing, PPC, SEO, social media and other digital channels.
• Experience in managing digital first brands both from width & depth point of view
• Strength working with cross functional teams in a high growth environment
• Experience in creating end to end online customer journey

• Budget: Management of budget for Hardware Asset Management tools, services and staffing (permanent and temporary)
• Talent management: Permanent, contract, temporary and graduate trainees
• Matrix management: Management of staff with Hardware Asset Management responsibility in other business units
• Lead third-party Hardware Asset Management resources: Supervisory responsibility for third-party resources supporting Hardware Asset Management activity
• Financial: Oversight of spending on technology asset support, which includes hardware, software, cloud services, support, maintenance and hardware disposal
• Environment: Endpoints and edge devices, software and service asset vendors, on-premises data center assets, and cloud services
• Other: Liability management and remediation tracking

The IT asset manager will:

• Ensure that appropriate resources (people, tools, services) and processes are in place to gather and analyze data relating to technology asset life cycles and related processes.
• Promote and advocate the value of Hardware Asset Management to various leaders. This includes developing and promoting effective Hardware Asset Management strategies, policy, approaches and practices across the full range of digital technology assets used within the organization.
• Identify and report on breaches of Hardware Asset Management policy, and track remedial action.
• Report on (or develop reporting on) remediation of digital technology asset-related risks and progress of optimization activity.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting, and that data completeness and quality issues are quickly identified and escalated to the responsible data or process owners.
• Gather data on and provide analysis of all activities that have an impact on the value, cost and risk of digital technology asset life cycles.
• Provide finance with the data to support the analysis of digital technology asset project and maintenance budgets and business cases.
• Assign responsibilities for sub disciplines, such as IT asset disposition (ITAD).
• Ensure that Hardware Asset Management -related tools and services are properly evaluated, selected, implemented, configured and maintained, with appropriate integration with other sources of organizational data.
• Provide access to technology asset data in support of essential activities required to support the effective running of the business.
• Manage the everyday functions of the core Hardware Asset Management team. This includes staffing, budgeting and other relevant management functions required to hold all IT and business stakeholders accountable for optimizing the cost, risk and benefit of digital technology assets throughout their life cycle.
• Managing the deployment and collection of devices and other hardware assets to the associates or offices.

The IT asset manager acts in a leadership role and must demonstrate the following leadership attributes:

• Strategic thinking — An understanding of strategic business objectives and the ability to develop a vision and strategy for Hardware Asset Management and execute it effectively in order to drive results toward those objectives
• Interpersonal skills — Proven ability to collaborate, build relationships and influence individuals at all levels in a matrix management environment (as well as external vendors and service providers) to ensure that segregation and overlapping roles are identified and coordinated
• Strategic relationship management — Includes working with vendors during compliance audits
• Strategic vision — Ability to sense emerging needs and drive change as Hardware Asset Management develops and matures to meet organizational and technology challenges

The Hardware asset manager must have the following skills:

• Strong communication skills with a proven ability to understand key business and technical concepts, and then effectively communicate these concepts with technical staff, business stakeholders and senior management
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to perform under pressure and to manage multiple priorities with competing demands for resources
• Strong analytical, data processing and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in process formulation and improvement
• Ability to read and interrupt contracts to properly manage digital technology, which includes license and maintenance agreements
• Ability to manage the deployment and collection of devices and other hardware assets to the associates or offices in a large scale. Demonstrable experience of managing assets in hundreds of thousands will be required.

The Hardware asset manager must have in-depth knowledge and experience of the following:

• Technology asset life cycle (whether digital technology, information, financial or physical assets), best practice governance, tools and services
• Policy, process, and procedure development and implementation
• Technology contracts and their likely cost implications through the technology asset life cycle
• Engagement with sourcing, procurement and vendor management legal, tax and accountancy advisors for additional information
• Data processing, analysis and quality management tools
• Ability to manage effective deployment, collection and disposition of assets and managing the devices through its lifecycle

Additionally, an understanding of IT business continuity, cybersecurity, and integrated risk management and optimization methodologies is highly desirable, along with knowledge of IT management.

The following experience is considered essential:

• A management role, including engagement with sourcing, procurement and vendor management, business stakeholders and frontline operational IT staff
• Prior Hardware Asset Management roles (hardware or software) or demonstrable experience of working with IT asset management professionals to deliver Hardware Asset Management capability and improved business outcomes
• Atleast 16 years of experience with IT, enterprise asset management or information management
• Demonstrated leadership experience building cross-organizational consensus with exposure to technology providers and/or business clients
• Demonstrated experience in liaising with middle and senior management
• Experience with building business requirements for digital technology tools and services, developing business cases, and selecting solutions using RFP documentation and processes
• Experience leading system or tool implementations, with responsibility for verifying capabilities, outputs, dependencies and implementation scope
• Experience managing deployment, collection and disposition of assets in a large scale with globally distributed workforce.

The following experience is considered desirable, but not mandatory:

• 13+ years of experience working in the working in a large IT/ITeS organization
• 13+ years of experience in managing external IT service providers handling digital technology assets
• Experience with ServiceNow platform

This is a sensitive role dealing with commercial risks and significant costs. The organization must have a high level of confidence in the integrity and track record of the individual appointed to this role.

The following certifications are considered desirable, but not mandatory:

• ITIL v3 Foundation certification
• Certified IT Asset Manager
• COBIT 5 Foundation

• An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in finance, IT, engineering, business management or a related field
• Tertiary qualifications in financial accounting, project management or data analysis, or a legal or paralegal qualification that includes contract, copyright or intellectual property law are preferred

Must have exp in Django. [ Mandatory]

• The ability to problem-solve and critically think.
• High level of knowledge of Python and the Django framework.
• Familiarity with event driven programming as well as the MVC.
• Good understanding of SQL databases.
• Good understanding of REST APIs.

We aspire to build a high-quality, innovative & robust software. If you are a hands-on platform builder with significant experience in developing scalable data platforms, look no further. Click on Apply and we will reach out to you soon.

Your responsibilities as an Engineer: 

•     Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.

•     Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.

•     Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.

•     Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.

•     Obtains and licenses software by obtaining required information from vendors; recommending purchases; testing and approving products.

•     Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment

•     Participate in educational opportunities & read professional publications;

•     Protects operations by keeping information confidential.

•     Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.

•     Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

•     Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.

Skill sets we require:

•     Proven work experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer

•     Experience designing interactive applications

•     Ability to develop software in or other programming languages like JIRA or Postman

•     Excellent knowledge of relational databases, MYSQL and Restful API

•     Experience developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (Laravlel, Codeigniter and Magento)

•     Experience with test-driven development

•     Proficiency in software engineering tools

•     Ability to document requirements and specifications

Experience & Pedigree: 

•     Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in any of the relevant background with strategic communications focus
• 1+ years of related experience in content development and distribution over the web for a product based firm
• Should be able to understand buyers’ journey and develop content as per the requirement.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Manage multiple projects and deliver work in a timely fashion with a positive “can-do” attitude
• Must have ability to work independently as well as in partnership with team
• Impeccable spelling and grammar
• Great research and organisational skills
• Up to date with recent trends and social media
• Experience with hashtags keyword and SEO research

About CITTA

The Lexicon Group, under the leadership of Pankaj Sharma has journeyed from very humble beginnings and has seen upward growth year after year. The Lexicon Group started from education but has now diversified to other sectors like FMCG, Ed-tech, Law Aggregator Platform, Media, Fitness etc. The latest addition to the kitty of The Lexicon Group has been a newspaper (Pune Mirror and Civic Mirror), which has been taken over from the Times of India Group. The motto for The Lexicon Group is mindfully chosen ‘Believe in Yourself’, probably the three strongest words listed together which have the potential of changing lives if you believe in them and that is what Lexicon group try to ensure.

CITTA (Lexicon Lifestyle Private Limited) is a premium-quality natural baby bath and skincare brand that is safe, tested and gentle. CITTA Products are Free of Toxins, Parabens, Sulphates, Silicones, Mineral Oil, and Allergens and are Dermatologically Tested. We are a cruelty-free brand. We are expanding our core team, which is determined to achieve results.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement HR strategies and initiatives aligned with the overall business strategy
• Bridge management and employee relations by addressing demands, grievances or other issues
• Manage the recruitment and selection process
• Support current and future business needs through the development, engagement, motivation and preservation of human capital
• Create and execute customer engagement, satisfaction and retention plans
• Develop and monitor overall HR strategies, systems, tactics and procedures across the organization
• Nurture a positive working environment
• Oversee and manage a performance appraisal system that drives high performance
• Maintain pay plan and benefits program
• Assess training needs to apply and monitor training programs
• Report to management and provide decision support through HR metrics
• Ensure legal compliance throughout human resource management

Must Haves:

• Proven working experience as HR Manager or other HR Executive
• People-oriented and results-driven
• Demonstrable experience with Human Resources metrics
• Knowledge of HR systems and databases
• Ability to architect strategy along with leadership skills
• Excellent active listening, negotiation and presentation skills
• Competence to build and effectively manage interpersonal relationships at all levels of the company

Perks:

• Excellent growth opportunity
• Best salary in the industry

The company is headquartered in Pune.