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About Hamleys:

Hamleys is not just a Toy Store but an entire Toy experience. Currently there are more 125 stores in India and we are present in more than 20 countries. 365 days of play is the brand philosophy of Hamleys. At Hamleys we believe in giving our customers an Instore experience that helps him build memories for lifetime.

Job Title: Fun Consultant

Grade: A1

Role:

• Warmly welcome and approach each customer – customer’s inclination to shop starts right from the first step & eye contact.
• Believes and lives the attitude of “Sheer customer delight” – go beyond
• To efficiently adhere to all “company procedures and policies.”
• To work with the team to achieve award winning “customer service.”

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to achieve store KPIs.
• Utilize the knowledge of trends and guide each customer on “what suits better” – in line with the customer needs, individuality and product range.
• Believes and lives the attitude of “Sheer customer delight” – go beyond

Desired Skills & Abilities

• Superior understanding of Indian retailing and global trends.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills - understand customer needs
• Good at relationship building - conversion to sales
• Ability to follow brand and store guidelines
• Good operations experience – receiving stock, inventory keeping, cash handling etc.

JOB DETAILS:

Job Role: Lead I - Software Engineering - Java, Spring Boot, Microservices

Industry: Global digital transformation solutions provider

Work Mode: 3 days in office, Hybrid model. 

Salary: Best in Industry

Experience: 5-7 years

Location: Trivandrum, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Java Developer Experience: 5+ years

Job Summary: We are looking for a Senior Java Developer with strong experience in Spring Boot and Microservices to work on high-performance applications for a leading financial services client. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Java backend development, cloud (preferably GCP), and strong problem-solving abilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Java-based microservices using Spring Boot

• Collaborate with Product Owners and teams to gather and review requirements

• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and unit testing

• Ensure application performance, scalability, and security

• Contribute to solution architecture and design documentation

• Support Agile development processes including daily stand-ups and sprint planning

• Mentor junior developers and lead small modules or features

Required Skills:

• Java, Spring Boot, Microservices architecture

• GCP (or other cloud platforms like AWS)

• REST/SOAP APIs, Hibernate, SQL, Tomcat

• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Bitbucket

• Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)

• Unit testing (JUnit), debugging and troubleshooting

• Good communication and team leadership skills

Preferred Skills:

• Frontend familiarity (Angular, AJAX)

• Experience with API documentation tools (Swagger)

• Understanding of design patterns and UML

• Exposure to Confluence, Jira

Must-Haves

Java/J2EE (5+ years), Spring/Spring Boot (5+ years), Microservices (5+ years), AWS/GCP/Azure (mandatory), CI/CD (Jenkins, SonarQube, Git)

Mandatory Skills Required: Strong proficiency in Java, spring boot, microservices, GCP/AWS.

Experience Required: Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience

Java, Spring Boot, Microservices architecture

GCP (or other cloud platforms like AWS)

REST/SOAP APIs, Hibernate, SQL, Tomcat

CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Bitbucket

Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)

Unit testing (JUnit), debugging and troubleshooting

Good communication and team leadership skills

Notice period - 0 to 15 days only (Immediate or candidates who are serving notice period and who can join by Feb)

Job stability is mandatory

Location: Trivandrum, Kochi

Virtual Interview: 31st Jan-Saturday

Nice to Haves

Frontend familiarity (Angular, AJAX)

Experience with API documentation tools (Swagger)

Understanding of design patterns and UML

Exposure to Confluence, Jira

Key Responsibilities:

● Client Engagement: Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned clients, understanding their unique operation processes and requirements. Build and maintain strong relationships to facilitate successful implementations.

● Project Management: Lead the end-to-end implementatio, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align resources and objectives.

● Process Analysis and Improvement: Evaluate clients' existing operation workflows, identify inefficiencies, and recommend optimized processes leveraging platform. Utilize process mapping and data analysis to drive continuous improvement.

● Data Analysis: Analyze substantial datasets to ensure accurate configuration and integration . Employ statistical tools and SQL-based queries to interpret data and provide actionable insights.

● Problem Solving: Break down complex problems into manageable components, developing effective solutions in collaboration with clients and internal teams.

● Process Excellence: Advocate for and implement best practices in process management, utilizing methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma to enhance operational efficiency.

● Customer Excellence: Ensure a superior customer experience by proactively addressing client needs, providing training and support, and promptly resolving any issues that arise.

Qualifications:

● 1 to 3 years of experience in project management, preferably in financial services, software implementation, consulting or analytics.

● Strong analytical skills with experience in data analysis, SQL querying, and handling large datasets.

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage client relationships effectively.

● Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects concurrently.

● Proven expertise in financial operation processes and related software solutions is a plus

● Proficiency in developing business intelligence solutions or with low-code tools is a plus

Why Join ?

● Opportunity to work with a cutting-edge financial technology company.

● Collaborative and innovative work environment.

● Competitive compensation and benefits package.

● Professional development and growth opportunities.

Job Title: Area Sales Manager – B2B School Sales

Location: Thrissur & Cochin, Kerala

Experience: 1 to 4 years

Salary: ₹3.5 – ₹4 LPA

Industry: Education / EdTech / B2B Sales

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly motivated and energetic Area Sales Manager to drive B2B sales in the school segment across Thrissur and Cochin. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing new business opportunities, maintaining strong relationships with school decision-makers, and achieving sales targets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify and onboard new schools in the assigned territory (Thrissur & Cochin).
• Build and maintain strong relationships with principals, school management, and key decision-makers.
• Pitch educational products/services to schools and ensure timely closures.
• Achieve monthly and quarterly sales targets.
• Conduct product demos and training sessions for clients.
• Work closely with the marketing and operations team to ensure seamless delivery and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor competition and market trends to strategize accordingly.
• Maintain accurate records of sales, client interactions, and follow-ups via CRM tools or reporting formats.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline (MBA is a plus).
• 1–4 years of experience in B2B sales, preferably in the education sector or similar.
• Prior experience in school sales will be a strong advantage.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong negotiation and presentation abilities.
• Self-driven and target-oriented.
• Willingness to travel locally within assigned areas (Thrissur & Cochin).

Benefits:

• Fixed salary: ₹3.5 – ₹4 LPA (based on experience and interview performance).
• Incentives based on sales performance.
• Travel reimbursement.
• Career growth opportunities in a fast-growing sector.

Housing.com

Role: Team Manager

Department: Developer Sales

Location: Kochi

Housing.com

Founded in 2012 and acquired by REA India in 2017, Housing.com is India’s most innovative real estate advertising platform for homeowners, landlords, developers, and real estate brokers. The company offers listings for new homes, resale homes, rentals, plots and co-living spaces in India. Backed by strong research and analytics, the company’s experts provide comprehensive real estate services that cover advertising and marketing, sales solutions for real estate developers, personalized search, virtual viewing, AR&VR content, home loans, end-to-end transaction services, and post-transaction services to consumers for both buying and renting.

What does this role hold for you…??

●       Accountable for maintaining relationships with priority clients.

●       Drive growth through sales planning and precise actualization and sell online space to key accounts.

●       Accountable for data management to ensure 100% coverage in assigned territory and tracking other key parameters.

●       Ensure client management, negotiation & contract development.

●       Handle client acquisition campaigns and generate leads to build a flagship brand for property services in the respective region.

●       Accountable for service delivery and ensuring client retention.

●       Provide market insights and data assessment for the marketing team to launch the right promotional and customer communication initiatives.

●       Map new projects & new builders in designated territories and acquire new projects & builders to ensure coverage across the designated territories.

●       Ensuring efficient Relationship Management with existing clients to ensure 100% coverage of new projects launched by them.

Apply if you have…

·        Worked in a real estate business.

·        Dexterity in creating and delivering presentations.

·        Passion for selling and dexterity in communicating with people at all levels.

• Performs implementation of high level design and specifications.
• Develops low level design, class diagrams, flow charts.
• Performs Unit testing of individually developed components and fix errors, if any
• Assist in preparation of design, technical reference & operational documentation, packaging document in collaboration with the Lead.
• Strives for technology innovation in terms of exploring new and efficient ways of writing code
• Is responsible for writing simple, reusable code by following coding standards
• Ensure proper documentation of implementation and reviews.
• Ensure timely follow ups and escalations with leads with respect to any process gaps/risks/impediments.

Work Location: TVM/Kochi/Bangalore

Experience: 6-10years

• At least 5 years of experience in SailPoint IdentityIQ architecture, design, development, configuration, testing, integration, and deployment. 
• Must have experience in application onboarding, provisioning, workflow customization, access review etc. 
• SailPoint connector development experience with both out-of-the-box and custom connectors. 
• Sound experience in developing applications using Java, JEE components. 
• At least 3+ year of experience with Java, BeanShell/JavaScript, JSP/Servlets, SQL, Powershell, and XML. 
• Experience in any other IDM suite (OIM, IBM, Sun, CA, Novell) is an added advantage 
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Technical Lead - .NET

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver technical systems
• Maintain adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
• Participate in the development and review of documents to comply with SDLC methodologies [e.g., Engineering Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), estimation, Solution Design Document (SDD) and Software Architecture Documents (SAD)]
• Provide support and documentation to assist in sustaining the project during the transition to production where necessary
• Adhere to Application Engineering methodologies, standards, code reviews
• Provide feedback regarding application engineering methodologies, standards, and leading practices when appropriate
• Identify potential points of contention for missed activities and notify project leadership of situation and remediation plan
• Minimize technical exposure and risk on projects
• Provide technical guidance to development team members
• Technical deliverables (i.e., code and documentation) on projects assigned
• Translate detailed Requirements and Design and Solution Architecture deliverables into detailed design specifications
• Maintain effective and consistent communication within the team, with peers, the leadership team, and the peers in other IT groups
• Proactively raise issues to Technical and Group Leads when necessary
• Produce high-quality application engineering deliverables in accordance with the project timeline
• Build and unit test a project to detailed design specifications
• Provide thought leadership and technical guidance to engineering staff
• Review of code completed
• Review performance of developers
• Proactively anticipate project issues before they occur; define the problem; identify possible causes; work with the team to identify solutions; select and implement the most appropriate solution
• Apply judgment in implementing Application Engineering methodologies, processes, and practices to specific requirements of projects/programs which may include product design engineering, information security, code maintainability and reliability

Requirements:

Must Have:

• Bachelor’s OR master’s degree in a technical field and/or equivalent work experience
• At least 3 years acting a senior architecture / technical lead role in a comparable organization
• Significant experience of deploying large, enterprise-wide implementations to significant user volumes
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience leading a team of developers - defining work breakdown structures/tasks, assigning the teamwork items, monitoring, and ensuring quality and adherence to standards etc.
• At least 8 years of relevant hands-on work experience building, integrating, and delivering enterprise-wide web and windows applications using Microsoft and other technologies for large organizations on complex projects
• 8+ years of ASP.Net MVC, ASP.Net experience
• 8+ years of experience of working with applications that have a SQL Server backend
• 5+ years of experience with Object-Relational Mappers such as Entity Framework, ADO.NET, Dapper
• Expert level knowledge of .NET Web API is required. .NET Core knowledge is preferred, but Web API experience with legacy .NET is ok
• 5+ years of experience with GIT
• 3+ years of experience of Azure Devops
• In-depth knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) principles, and familiarity with many design patterns for Software applications.
• Demonstrated expertise in application design and construction, work breakdown structure of items, design and code reviews, unit test and build activities, deployment and performance related activities, documentation, support, and training/mentoring
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

Nice to have:

• Ideally experience working with SSRS, SSIS
• Experience with MongoDB or another document database would be a plus
• Knowledge and experience with working on N-Tier applications.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships
• Experience working on projects following Agile methodologies would be ideal
• Experience working with Azure or other cloud providers would be ideal
• Ability to work within diverse, global, virtual teams.
• Proven ability to thrive under pressure
• Some experience with design and prototyping tools and diagramming is desired

Job Responsibilities
● Implement and maintain Django-based applications

● Use server-side logic to integrate user-facing elements.

● Develop software related to asset management

● Write and implement software solutions that integrate different systems.

● Identify and suggest various opportunities to improve efficiency and functionality.

● Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the HTML coder, and yourself

● Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components

● Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

● Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

● Should have the ability to work with old and new versions of django.

● Understand existing code base and adapt to business needs as required

Required Skills
● 3 years experience in software industry

● Minimum 2 year experience in Python

● Minimum 1 Year experience in Django

● Basic understanding of front end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery

● Ability to build user interfaces using the latest web standards

● Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

● Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes

● Strong unit test and debugging skills

● Experience working in Linux

● Excellent problem solving skills

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills

● Ability to work well in a team development environment

About :

1. Employee Management at your Fingertips. PagarBook - India's Best Payroll and Attendance
2. Management tool for Small & Medium Enterprises. Using PagarBook, a business owner can maintain all the records of their employees digitally and can get insights around the same.
3. PagarBook is free & easy to use employee management, work & payroll management software app where you can manage all your staff and employee’s attendance, record the work done by your staff and employees and their salary, payments & advances can also be recorded in this app.
4. Sms & WhatsApp notification to employees and staff about payments, bonuses, daily work, attendance & leaves.
5. The Sales would be done for premium desktop version of the application
6. Benefits of desktop application:
1. Better and Easier accessibility, also available on mobile web
2. Access to rich reports which gives you business knowledge, spend
3. Unlimited free upgrades for a year

About Sales team:

The field sales team at PagarBook is all about solving SME’s customer problems and ensuring we deliver compelling value propositions.

On a typical day, the sales team:

• drives the adoption of a premium version of Pagarbook, sold at a subscription fee per annum
• never-say-no attitude, and comes with a win-all attitude
• At the same time, a core ingredient of the DNA is customer empathy
• We should always ensure the customer is well informed of all the benefits of the solution, before we close the sales.

Responsibilities and Duties of sales associate:

• You will pitch about PagarBook desktop solution on field to customers
• You will explain the benefits of PagarBook desktop solution to customers
  • Better and Easier accessibility, also available on mobile web
  • Access to rich reports which gives you business knowledge, spend
  • Unlimited free upgrades for a year
  • Bulk update features
  • Expense management
• The users can register on the desktop for a free trial for 7 days first
• Sales associate would convert the customer into a paid customer

Mandatory requirements:

• Having your own bike is a must
• Smartphone is a must
• Field sales experience is a must (telecom, FMCG and financial sales experience adds more weightage)
• Graduation in any field is sufficient

Benefits:

• Fixed salary upto 25k
• Targets based incentives (no upper cap, average ~10k per month):
• Petrol allowance ~upto INR 3,000 (on actual bills)
• Initial job posting would be for 3 months - based on good performance, conversion to full time employment would be granted

Key Areas of Responsibility (KRAs):

• Onboarding of Customers
  • Meet 30 new clients a day (tracked)
  • Get free trial enabled for 20 clients a day
  • Get 3 sales (paid customers, 10% conversion) per day - non-negotiable output
• Retaining customer accounts
  • While we build new businesses, cross-selling would be key
  • Customers should keep using PagarBook desktop beyond 30 days of activation
• Grow customer basket size
  • Identify key SME clusters in the city and prepare an acquisition plan
  • Go aggressive and acquire
• Business acumen & key skills
  • Strong knowledge on PagarBook sales process, services and product
  • Local Market and competition knowledge and clear articulation of PagarBook advantages
  • Strong negotiation and influencing skills to create win-win
  • Give continuous feedback to internal teams to improve our customer service level

Finally, remember, you are the PagarBook brand ambassador on the ground! All the best.