Business Analyst

REf MJ :28

Bangalore, Chennai, Gurgaon, Pune

Job Description

• Understand and create functional requirements
• Document, define and review detailed business and functional requirements
• Facilitate / Arbitrate in cases where the requirements gathering becomes complex or controversial
• Work closely with developers and architects to build custom J2EE, Ruby & .NET applications
• Be involved with all phases of development (analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment)
• Coach and mentor team members
• Travel to work at client sites

Desired Skills & Experience

• 5+ years experience in systems analysis on development of new and replacement application projects
• Experience in gathering and developing detailed functional requirements for OO, multi-tier applications
• Experience in designing and facilitating user focus sessions
• Experience in leading process improvement efforts is very valuable
• Experience of or interest in working in an Agile environment
• Knowledge of a testing methodology and/or experience in testing (System, Unit, Integration, Interface)
• Understanding of data modeling, object modeling and OO design principles
• Strong understanding of capabilities and limitations of programming languages, middleware solutions, application servers and presentation layer tools is a plus, but not required
• Exceptional listening, written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrates initiative and competence; supports and encourages positive working behaviors in others

To Apply Email :writetotanveer@gmail.com

Senior Manager - Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Ref: MJ 27
Gurgaon

Job Description

- Analysis of the Analytics account and directives to Sr Execs/SEM Agency under the guidance of DGM-Online Marketing
- In charge of optimizing acquisition cost under the guidance of DGM-Online Marketing of all Products – Air, Hotels, Trains
- Competition Mapping and Analysis
- Usage Of Bid Optimization Tools
- Daily reconciliation of Clicks, Searches and Acquisition with the Ad Agency
- Thorough Knowledge of Google Analytics
- Extremely proficient on Excel
- Should have worked in the past on Daily Report Formats – Traffic Analysis through GA, Conversion Analysis from Google, Search funnels, Time Lag Reports, Action Reports

Desired Skills & Experience

Experience / Skills (Preferred):
- 4-8 years experience in handling different analytical tools such as Analytics Tools: Adwords, Adwords Editor, Analytics, WebTrends Analytics.

Qualifications - Minimum:
- Engineers/ MBA/B.A./B.S degree or equivalent in Business or Marketing
- Minimum 4 years experience in SEM

Company Description

An online travel portal used to make reservations for Flights, Hotel and Trains. Cleartrip is dedicated to making travel simple. It's one of the best travel portal in travel industry. It's quite easy and convenient to use by any first time traveler.

To apply - email writetotanveer@gmail.com

Sub Region India Delivery Manager

REf: MJ 26

Mumbai, Bangalore

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

•Controls and manages their portfolio of projects to deliver P&L in accordance with quarterly revenue / margin goals in respect of commitments in compliance with business processes

•Manage team utilisation and control residual in line with goals

•Through engagement with Client Principals, drives agreed investment activities into target accounts to acquire new business

•Engage with client to maximize revenue and follow up activities

•Build knowledge level and expertise. Support development of methodologies and IP

•Point of escalation for projects and coordination of efforts to resolve any issue in their sub region

•Responsibility for skills and people development within team

•Drives business development and pursuit in support to the sales team

•Jointly manages presales budget with sales team

•Enforces delivery mix as per guidance to maximize competitiveness and profitability.

•Responsible for engagement delivery within their sub region

•Provides guidance to PM delivering within their sub region to maximize margin and revenue

•Responsible for reviewing and optimising the risk budget within their portfolio to maximise profitability

•Manages a team of delivery professionals within their geography

•Fosters a proactive culture of KM in the team, in collaboration with the Solution BDM

•Responsible for utilization and residual within the team

•Collaborates with other PS teams to maximize delivery utilization

•Creates and maintains effective relationship as to insure client satisfaction

•Acts as sponsor within key engagements

•Contributes to organization’ profitability by generating and cultivating new business opportunities

Desired Skills & Experience

Key Requirements:

- The individual should have an experience of 15+ years in roles involving both P&L responsibility and delivery management.

- Should have a strong exposure to Project Delivery, Account Management, Account penetration.

- The individual should have directly led a team as a strong focus of the role is team management.

- The candidate should have strong established credentails in contributing to incremental revenue , gross margins etc.

To apply Email : writetotanveer@gmail.com

Employees to get 14% average pay hike in 2012

Employees can look forward to an average salary hike of 14% in 2012, up from 11% last year, while hiring activities would be robust in various services sectors, such as banking, experts believe.
Sectors like infrastructure could see average salary hike of as high as 16%, but the

increments could be lower at 5% in a few segments like aviation and textiles.

Across all the sectors, the companies are expected to dole out an average pay hike of 14% -- higher than 11% in 2011, but slightly below a record 14.5% average increment given to the employees in 2007.

"The 2012 is yet another year where job seekers are going to experience positive hiring and double-digit or an average of 14% pay hike, along with handsome incentive, bonuses and perks," MyHiringClub(dot)com CEO Rajesh Kumar said.

"India Inc is also trying very hard to come out with uncertainties in this year and planning to give more concentration on front of employees satisfaction," he said.

Echoing similar views, Concord HR World CEO Shekhar Ghotgalkar said that hiring activities are set to increase in 2012, especially in the services sector, and salaries are expected to rise by 10 to 12%.

Most new jobs are expected in IT, retail, FMCG, auto, infrastructure, construction, engineering and banking sectors.

"Banking recruitment numbers will see growth. As the government wants to open up the sector, a large number of jobs will be created if new licenses are issued," Ghotgalkar said.

The experts believe that hiring activities would be better than 2011 across all the sectors, barring aviation.

In terms of sectors, infrastructure space would see an estimated 16% salary rise, while the textile and aviation sectors would be at the lower end of the spectrum with an average of 5% hike, Kumar said.

The IT sector might see a 14% salary increment, followed by 13% in healthcare sector, 12% in retail and 11% in engineering and manufacturing.

The consumer durables and FMCG sectors would also see double-digit salary hikes.

Commenting on the trends in the IT sector, Zeeways' CEO and MD Syed Farooq said: "We are in process to increase our headcount in India as well our overseas offices also."

"Mid-size IT companies like us were scared in the previous (global economic) crises, but now things are over in Indian market. We have started focusing on creating new potential clients with a geographic mix-up suited to safeguard our sales and revenues," he added.

The increments would be promising not only at junior and middle levels, but senior management level employees are also expected to get 12-14 salary hikes this year.

Besides, functions such as sales, marketing, engineering, finance and human resources are expecting better salary increments in 2012.

Source : Hindustan Times

Product Marketing Manager

REf: MJ 25

Bangalore

Job Description

Product conceptualizations, forge partnerships with academic partners and create, plan and execute marketing plans for product.

Help in conducting survey through various channels to look for gaps in Higher education and conceptualize new products as per the consumer needs.

Ideated and co-develop new courses for working professionalsand in the Higher Education segment.

Build and maintain relationships with College Partners (National / Foreign) for theaccreditation of new course created.

Manage the entire product creation lifecycle, including content aggregation, faculty empanelment.

Create a good marketing strategy for the launch; coordinate with creative team to create marketing flyers, brochures, collaterals etc.

Formulation of activation plans for increase in the visibility, awareness of the product through Email / Newsletter and internet based marketing communication.

Responsible for sales conversion of the product through the above mentioned marketing campaign.

Skills

1) Excellent written / verbal communication

2) Possess creative ideas in conceptualizing innovating marketing strategies

3) Good in relationship managementskills

The client is into the business of imparting education both to corporate as well as individuals present even in the remotest part of India using technology as a backbone. It is a venture funded company having presence in 22 locations in India and are the leaders in online education in India

To apply Email writetotanveer@gmail.com

Group Head(Ecommerce/Online Businesses)

Ref:OJ 24

Bangalore

We are looking for candidates currently in top management with 13-18 years of overall work experience preferably with large/globally established MNCs. Ecommerce/Online Businesses domain expertise would be an added advantage.

Primary Skills:

• Should have played strategy intensive roles for a minimum of 5 years as part of the top management team in reputed IT organizations.

• Excellent people management skills is most important, should have expertise in handling teams of varied sizes and consistency in both India and overseas geographies.

• Extensive exposure to overseas/multi cultural work environment (especially US markets) is mandatory. .A 5 year work stint in senior management roles in the US would be a distinct plus.

• Aspirants for this position would be expected to have extensive client interfacing experience (excellent communication-both verbal & written & a pleasing personality)

• Academics-B.E/B.Tech + Masters (M.E/M.Tech/MBA/MS)

• Location: Bangalore

Note: We are keen on receiving applications from overseas candidates (US preferred).Our client is equipped to administer the hiring process for overseas candidates through their local /regional offices. If you are considering relocating back to India (Bangalore), this would be a golden opportunity.

Salary:

Very lucrative compensation structure and pther benifits

Industry:

IT Software, Software Services

Functional Area:

E-Commerce, Internet Technologies

Role Category:

Senior Management

Role:

Head/VP/GM-Quality

Keyskills:

People Management,Strategy planning,Talent Management,Ecommerce,Online business,internet technologies

To apply email writetotanveer@gmail.com

CTO | Online Display Advertising Technology Platform

Ref : OJ 23

Bangalore

Looking for a CTO with a sound blend of:

1. Domain Expertise in Online Display Advertising/ Digital Banners/ Online Space Trade/ Internet

2. Hands-On in Product Architecture, .Net and Opensource technologies

3. Strong Techno-Business Leadership

Broad areas of responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Web based Techno-Business Strategy, Product Architecture and Technology Direction for Online Display Advertising/ Online Banner Advertising, Internet Media Space Trading (Online Ad Exchange)

• Technology Implementation and Deployment (Should have hands-on experience in developing world class web based products preferably on .Net technologies with exposure on Opensource technologies like LAMP etc.)

• Techno-Business Leadership, Talent Scaling and Operations.

Salary:

INR 50,00,000 & above P.A

Industry:

IT Software, Software Services

Functional Area:

E-Commerce, Internet Technologies

Role Category:

Senior Management

Role:

Head/VP/GM-Technology(IT)/CTO

Keyskills:

CTO, CIO, Director, Director of Engineering, VP Engineering, Technology Head, IT Head, Product Architect, Architect, Online Advertising, Online Display Advertising, Internet, Media Space Trading, Internet Marketing, Banner exchange, Display Ad

Desired Competencies:

• Strategic Technology Direction

• Product Architecture & Engineering

• Product Solution Implementation

• Hands-On Design and Coding Expertise

• Web-based/ Online Business Strategy

• Key Account Engagement

• Executive-level Collaboration

• Product specific Project Management

• On-time Product/ Market Rollout

• Team Recruitment/ Mentoring/ Scaling

• Competitor Analysis and Intelligence



Domain and Area of exposure:

• Online Display Advertising / Digital Display Advertising

• Digital Banner Advertising / Banner Exchange

• Online Media Space Trading (Buying & Selling)

• Online Advertising Exchange/ Technology Platform

• Online Marketing / Internet Marketing / E-Commerce / High Traffic Website Management

• Performance based advertising, Contextual Advertising

To Apply Email : writetotanveer@gmail.com

India Inc to go slow on hiring in 2012

Likely to be lower in general than this year, but those in education, healthcare, energy and retail expected to be robust.

While India Inc is holding on to hiring plans despite sluggishness in the economy, human resource (HR) experts and hiring consultants expect this would be less on average than last year.

They expect hiring growth for 2012 in the range of six to eight per cent, compared to nine to 10 per cent in 2011.

Sangeeta Lala, vice-president, Team Lease, says hiring in the first two quarters of 2012-13, would be slow. She expects the trend to pick up pace close to July. “The retail and FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) sector would pick up pace, and I believe even banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) would improve on hiring next year. Overall, there would be an eight-nine per cent net rise in hiring around mid-2012, though some industries may reach even 15-20 per cent. Hotels and hospitality, where hiring was stable this year, are expected to march ahead next year,” says Lala.

The sluggish growth is evident in a Ma Foi Randstad Employment Survey of October. It shows a decrease of 229,500 jobs against the prediction of 1.6 million made at the beginning of 2011. “We have to acknowledge that uncertainty in the global economies has impacted the Indian market, in spite of the positive sentiments displayed at 2011 beginning. There might be a five-six per cent upward movement after March. While we cannot expect the robust sentiment of early 2011 to continue, the estimated healthy growth rate of the Indian economy at 7.8 per cent to eight per cent adds hope,” says E Balaji, managing director & chief economic officer, Ma Foi Randstad.

Amit Bansal, CEO, Purple Leap, says, “In engineering, the bulk of recruitment is in the information technology (IT) sector. The sentiment has changed over time. In mid-2011, there was a 25-30 per cent increase for freshers in IT. In the later half, that sentiment changed. People are cautious. I believe that in the first quarter of 2012, the sentiment would be to wait and watch.”

This is evident from some of the comments made by technology companies.While they said attrition would come down due to the economic uncertainty, many added that fresher intake might be lower than what it had been. For instance, iGATE Patni in a media report said campus hiring might come down significantly next year.

Source:Business Standard

Analysis Engineer/ Senior Analysis Engineer

Ref: MJ 22

Bangalore

Job Description

Senior CAE Analyst:

1. Should have 5-6 years of analysis experience.

2. Expert in using Ansys Workbench.

3.Must have Aerospace domain experience.

4.Hydraulics, pneumatics design experience is must.

CAE Analyst:

1. Should have 2-4 years of analysis experience.

2. Expert in using Hypermesh with Nastran/Patran.

3.Must have Aerostructures domain experience.

4.Hand calculations - Static, fatigue, damage tolerance experience is must.

Education: B.Tech/B.E/ Diploma/ M.Tech

Shortlisted candidates will have F2F discussion on 7th Jan(Saturday)/ 8th Jan'11(Sunday).

To apply email : writetotanveer@gmail.com

Top B-Schools and IIMs expect fewer recruiters, fewer jobs and lower salaries this time

Lessons in real life are often better than what's taught in the classrooms, even if they happen to be at the country's best Bschools. For students graduating in 2012, the real-time learning of managing their careers through economic volatility is the only consolation in what threatens to be a gloomy placement season across the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and at the Indian School of Business.

At least four IIM directors, two student heads of placement cells, recruitment managers, head-hunters and students told ETthey expect fewer recruiters, fewer jobs and lower salaries when the placement season kicks off next month.

They are bracing for the worst, and gently lowering expectations to cushion the impact on hundreds of students aspiring for dream jobs. Placing 350-odd students sitting for the final placements would be a challenge, admits Professor Amit Dhiman, IIM-Calcutta's placements chairperson.

"I want to understand how far the slowdown will impact us this year," says 24-yearold Vishal Sharma, a final-year student at IIM-Ahmedabad, flipping through a business magazine for articles on the slowdown. Batchmate R Sridhar is in touch with the alumni to gauge hiring sentiments across companies. The class of 2012 has seen global economic volatility at its worst. They sat for their entrance exams in late 2009, when the world economy was still reeling under the impact of the previous year's financial crisis.

They walked into the campus for the first day at school in June 2010, when the early hints of recovery were quite evident, at least in India. Those hopes have been belied as they prepare to pass out in a few months. "When we entered IIM-A in 2010, it was a good recovery year (after 2008 meltdown). But now when we are ready to enter the corporate world, there are fears of a double-dip recession," says Sridhar.

"The number of Day Zero finance jobs, including those from investment banks, are likely to go down," says Prof Dhiman. "But not every sector is doing badly. Consulting companies have multiple job offers, as do IT, technology product companies." Adds Debashis Chatterjee, director, IIMKozhikode: "The number of companies visiting and offers being made will be conservative."

FMCG and durables companies haven't dropped out. They are coming to the campus, but they will recruit fewer students. "Some have said they are coming just to maintain their relationship on campus. They will recruit only 1 or 2 people," says Dhiman. Some FMCG companies had hired 10-15 each last year. Pre-placement offers at IIM-C are down to 75 compared with 90-plus during the same time last year. Some Day 3, Day 4 companies have also dropped out.

"In 2009, we were banking on domestic offers. But this time, besides global offers, even the domestic ones will be affected," adds Dhiman. IIM-Bangalore has been tempering the hopes of its students for some time now, not just this year. "The students are mature now and many of them come with work experience; they understand they may not get their dream job.

Not everything is rosy," says Sapna Agarwal, head of career development services at the institute. The placement committee and faculty are trying to point students to other sectors that are equally good. "We have increased the bouquet of desirable companies. We are trying to help students understand the goodness of other industries (which may not have necessarily been part of their first choice)," says Agarwal.

Adds Ashish Dongre, an IIM-B PGP student, "The faculty is helping students come to terms with sustained recession." The Rs 1-crore salaries, foreign postings won't happen. "Instead of only Ivy League companies, middle and smaller companies are offering challenging and equally competitive jobs. It's right to bring down expectations," says Dongre.

At IIM-B, 370 students will line up for placements this year. "Most recruiters are reserving judgement on the number of people they are planning to hire," says Ashish Srivastava, placement committee member at XLRI-Jamshedpur.

"Most will recruit less. If the market picks up later, they will hire more from the market." "Consulting is looking fine, but finance is taking a hit. We are not sure about marketing yet, but no one seems to have any major expansion plans," he adds. Earlier in November, companies were enthusiastic in picking first-year students for six-week internships, raising hopes of a strong hiring sentiment. But free interns are one thing; paid hires are another.

Campus insiders say many students have cancelled holidays from their year-end schedules. CVs are being reworked and social networks actively accessed for the latest buzz on hiring. At IIM-Ranchi, consumer-facing companies, including those in the FMCG and durables sector, have been affected and a couple of those that had originally planned to visit the campus have backed out.

"It would have been a problem if we had a larger batch, even 120 students. But since we are going into final placements with only 44 students, we are not worried," says MJ Xavier, IIM-Ranchi director. Institutes placing a large number of students will surely face problems, he says. The average salary will come down this year.

"Those at the top of the class will still get good offers, but the average bunch will probably get a little less," he says. How much less is the questions B-school grads are fretting about. (Names of some students quoted in this story have been changed at their request.)

Reporting by Tapash Talukdar, Parag Dave (Ahmedabad), Devina Sengupta (Bangalore) and Sreeradha D Basu (Kolkata).

Source: Economic Times

It's happy new year for hiring; over 5 lakh new jobs in 2012

It's happy new year for hiring; over 5 lakh new jobs in 2012

The new year may bring in loads of cheers for job-seekers, as the experts expect the companies to hire more than five lakh new employees during 2012 despite the uncertainties prevailing about the overall economic scenario. Adding to the cheers of the job market, the employees could expect double-digit salary hikes during 2012.

"If all goes well, and depending on policies of the government and market situation, more than 5 lakh jobs will be created across all segments," executive search firm GlobalHunt's director Sunil Goel said.

The Indian job market in 2011, felt the ripple effects of the global economic uncertainty, but emerged out of it rather strong, as companies adopted a "cautiously optimistic" approach and experts believe in the new year jobs will continue to be added, albeit at a slower pace.

As per Monika Tripathi, vice president (Heading the IT, ITeS, Telecom and Research practices) at recruitment process outsourcing firm Elixir Consulting, "The IT/ITeS sector alone will generate as many as around 3 lakh jobs in 2012."

Elixir expects the hiring activities to increase by 7-8% in 2012, from the levels seen in 2011.

As the companies would increase their technology investments and entities from abroad look at India-based service providers or development centres, there is a bright prospect for both domestic as well as multinational companies based in India, in the IT/ITES segment.

In the coming months job, opportunities are expected to grow exponentially in sectors like retail, healthcare and IT & ITeS, defence, hospitality and consumer durable.

"Since the interest rates have hardened to all times high, they are bound to come down giving much needed respite to banking, this should give boost to real estate and automobile and hence these sectors are likely to see some hiring," executive search firm Symbiosis Management Consultants' CEO and Founder Vinay Grover said.

Echoing similar sentiments, Richie Madan, executive director at Elixir Consulting, "there is a great demand for talent across industries in India. The Retail, BFSI, FMCG, Hotels and Hospitality sectors would pick up pace and would improve in 2012."

FMCG, Pharma are insulated from recession and will remain constant, Grover said, while adding that E-Commerce being a new kid on the block will emerge as a saviour and will compensate for rather dull scenario.

As far as compensations are concerned, there is reason to cheer, the average salary increase would increase to at least 12%, from 11% in 2011.

Source:Hindustan Times

Financial and Planning Analyst

ZJ -21

Currently there is an opening for Financial and planning Analyst for a leading KPO based in Mumbai with 2-5 yrs of experience

We are looking at local Mumbai or Pune candidates only

Qualification: MBA/PGDBM

Job Purpose:

The Planning & Analysis is part of the ASIA Finance division and provides financial and related business information to senior management to allow them to make informed business decisions and set key strategic goals.

This includes weekly and monthly management reporting, forward looking exercises including Budget & Forecasting and preparation of analysis to the support decision making.

• The role offers a platform to participate in high profile launch of a Centre of Expertise site in Mumbai
• Opportunity to join one the leading financial Institutions in the world which prides itself on people development and mobility
• The role also provides a fantastic opportunity to build a career within the Finance Division and gain a holistic and deep knowledge and understanding of various businesses
• Interaction with people at all levels from different areas of the organisation (finance, business and infrastructure)
• The role provides a diverse and varied work coverage including monthly reporting, presentations, forecasting and ad hoc analysis
• Opportunity to work in a matrix organisation working with regional and country teams

Key Responsibilities:

Preparation of Performance Review Management Decks
• Assisting in analysis and preparing of materials for regional CEOs for their monthly regional Business Review across all businesses
• Assisting in coordination and production of materials for Monthly /Quarterly
• Preparing papers for monthly review with US Fed
• Sourcing of market data and macro economic statistics from Bloomberg / other data providers to be used in monthly business reviews and ad-hoc projects
• Devising meaningful and standardised reporting across all businesses
• Working with the wider team supervisor in a number of ad-hoc projects & presentations

Support of Country Senior Management
• Supporting ASIA country level senior management with monthly financial processes as well ad-hoc projects focused on country specific strategies
• Preparation of RCB performance scorecards
• Preparation of Country review decks covering all products

Performance Measurement and Related Analytics
• Performance measurement of businesses including analysing, investigating and explaining key movements and trends in major P&L lines to senior management
• Preparation of monthly financial metrics and key business drivers specific to different products

Balance Sheet Management and related Performance Metrics
• Collection, distribution and analysis of weekly and month end wide P&L and Balance Sheet estimates exclusively for senior management
• Analysis of Net Interest Margin

Expense and Headcount Analytics
• Provide meaningful analytics for expense and headcount
• Tracking of Compensation expenses (payout ratios, associated taxes and CAP rates)
• Preparation of FX analysis
• Preparation of management information for monthly Expense Leadership (ELC) Committee meetings

Weekly Outlook Process
• Assist in preparing weekly financial outlook for products together with a geographic view
• Assist region products in preparing outlooks
• Consolidation of regional results

Budgeting and Forecast Process
• Assisting in the quarterly forecasting exercise and annual Budget & Allocation processes

Month End Reporting activities
• Assist in key month end activities which provides oversight of completeness and accuracy of underlying management information
• Tax analysis and country liaison
• Support product control and financial control with key Management reporting

To Apply Email - writetotanveer@gmail.com