Public Policy Manager - Lodha Group - Mumbai

Designation: Public Policy Manager – Office of MLA, Malabar Hills: Mr. Mangal Prabhat Lodha 

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 3-8 yrs

Job Description:

 The Public Policy Manager for Mr. Mangal Prabhat Lodha [Honorable Member of Legislative Assembly, Malabar Hills (Maharashtra)], will support the honorable MLA in representing his positions to policymakers, industry associations and other groups and driving key social initiatives across Maharashtra and India . This position is based in Mumbai and will report to Mr. Mangal Prabhat Lodha and will be on the pay-rolls of Lodha Foundation.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

- Research based support:

- Keep track of the Indian political environment and highlight relevant policy issues to the MLA

- Provide views on key social and political issues through research backed by data

- Support the honorable MLA in his public speeches by providing data based well researched viewpoints

- Keep track of legislation and regulatory matters in the state of Maharashtra affecting citizens and advise Office of MLA with respect to policy challenges arising at the state governmental level.

- Drive key social initiatives

- Develop strategy and implement programs to achieve goals in public policy.

- Work with relevant agencies and bodies and non-governmental organizations on issues related public policy concerns like water supply, education, health, urban planning, sanitation, disaster management, industries, land etc.

- Design and implement local stakeholder programs.

- Other work

- Represent the honorable MLA in meetings with governments and elected officials.

- Actively maintain and promote the presence of the honorable MLA in social media

Competencies (key functional/technical/leadership/behavioral skills required for this job)

- Keen understanding of the Indian political systems and institutions, outstanding judgment and persuasive skills, creativity, and the ability to work in a dynamic environment. 

Desired Candidate Profile:

- 3 – 8 years of demonstrated experience managing legislation, clients during consulting assignment, and/or government relations and advocacy work.

- Experience in policy work for a NGO/Think tanks/MNC/Strategy Consulting preferred.

- Interest in emerging technologies and policy work.

- Proven written and oral communications skills.

- Advanced degree in related field, policy, law, sociology, business administration preferred, but not mandatory.

- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work with senior officials and government representatives.  

Suitable candidates can send their updated resumes to shalmali.sharma@lodhagroup.com

Marketing Stream Lead, MCOS - Capgemini - Mumbai

Title: Marketing Stream Lead, MCOS - IT Services

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 12+ yrs

Job Description:

You will be a part of the MCOS team and will be responsible for heading the Marketing function from offshore in perfect alignment with the Group’s strategy and direction.
MCOS (Marketing & Communications Offshore Services) is the Group-wide Marketing & Communications shared services organization providing services ranging from design, content and web to account based marketing, pursuit marketing, GTM program management and global campaign support.
 
Already a 100 people organization, the team has strong growth plans, with a vision to emerge as the world’s leading integrated marketing and communications services organization. 

Working closely with the Group Marketing Sponsor and MCOS Director, help build a strong Marketing Community offshore that is capable of catering to the ever growing needs of the organization.
 
Role & Responsibilities:
 

• Create a vibrant offshore Marketing community of skilled resources
• To work closely with stakeholders across the globe to drive marketing programs, along with their offshore teams
• Nurture and develop newer capabilities in the offshore like ‘Social Media Marketing’ & ‘Marketing Content creation’; liaise with key Sales and Marketing Leads to execute pilots and assessments
• Spot opportunities where the offshore Marketing Stream can add value and drive these opportunities
• Drive compelling Success Stories/ Reference Programs across the Group
• Leverage the existing shared services team across capabilities like design, IC, web and campaigns for all Marketing support
• Regular interactions with the existing stakeholders for a temperature check on current engagements
• Lead the current offshore marketing stream to achieve their individual objectives and the stream objectives and help the team perform at the next level
• Regular interactions with the team; work closely with each team member and help them in their area of expertise/business
• Identify/provide platforms for sharing best practices
• Organize & run L&D programs that is customized to the stream/individuals
• Facilitate timely reporting to MCOS Director and Stream Sponsor

Desired Candidate Profile

• 12+ years of experience in Corporate M&C, with 5-7 years in driving core  marketing programs in a Tier 1 IT Organization

• The person needs to have led a team of marketers in the recent past
• Outstanding communication skills, both oral and written is a must
• Strong interpersonal and executive interactions skills

• Ideally, should have supported large key accounts with penetration-focused marketing
• Should be able to write/review Marketing Content
• Should have an understanding of how to leverage Social Media for marketing
• Exposure to CRM, Siebel Marketing/Demand Gen programs desirable
• Should be proficient in running customer intimacy programs and thought leadership campaigns
• A track-record in working in an offshore-onshore model would be good to have

• Good team player and leader
• Should have the ability to comprehend complex thoughts and handle multi-skill projects
• Structured and process oriented
• Creative, innovative, and quality driven
• Excellent presentation skills and willingness to travel

Qualifications:

Post graduate degree/diploma in marketing from a reputed institution (Preferred. Not compulsory) and/or relevant experience working with Tier 1 IT organization

 Suitable candidates can send their updated resumes to veshali.wanchoo@capgemini.com

Lead Analyst: Statistical Modelling - WNS - Bangalore

Title: Lead Analyst: Statistical Modelling (Insurance domain:Claims/Marketing Analytics) 

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 4-7 yrs

Job Description: 

The senior statistician will demonstrate 4-7 years experience of using a variety of statistical tools and techniques. The candidate must possess hands-on experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining predictive statistical models, also should have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to manage a small team of statistical analysts. Will be required to develop and maintain detailed documentation for every activity/sub-activity and liaise with the domain lead throughout the project lifecycle.
 
Develop descriptive and predictive analytical solutions. Should have high degree of familiarity and confidence in using techniques such as customer segmentation, clustering, decision tree/CART/CHAID, logistic regression, customer lifetime value, survival analysis
 
Role & Responsibilities

• Deliver on analytics requests mostly unsupervised; should be able to draft a project plan from an analytics brief defining what the objective/problem is and able to identify appropriate solution(s), identify all the intermediary activities to reach the end state and complete the activities within the stipulated timelines.
• Build predictive models from start-to-finish (i.e. extract data, manipulate data, build model and validate model) and then deploy model on real data and track model performance. Recalibrate/refresh the models on regular time-intervals.
• Periodical review of effectiveness of models to determine readiness for business use
• Work with data team to understand the data availability and quality for analytic use, establish new data sources (with the DBA) where necessary
• Develop/maintain ongoing relationship with the domain lead
• Develop/maintain detailed documentation of best practices, model implementation framework and manuals for all analytical tasks/activities.
• Deliver commentary/key insights alongside analytical output for the on-shore team/key stakeholder(s)

Desired Candidate Profile:

Masters in Statistics / Economics from premium Institute
Excellent communication skills
Must have hands-on experience in building statistical models using SAS Enterprise Miner / Enterprise Guide/ Base SAS and using data mining tools such as Teradata SQL. Experience in using R is recommended.
Basic understanding of data warehousing principles/architecture
Proficiency in data mining and statistical tools to conduct customer segmentation, clustering, decision tree/CART/CHAID, logistic regression, customer lifetime value, survival analysis
Experience in reporting analytic solutions, demonstrating good communication and presentation skills
Should be very detail oriented and committed to producing high quality results within strict deadlines
Ability to performing work with minimal supervision within a collaborative group environment
Proficient in using SAS, SAS EG, SAS EM, R, SQL, Excel, VBA and PowerPoint

Suitable candidates can send their updated resumes to kabita.paul@wns.com

General Manager Marketing - Lodha Group - Mumbai

Designation: General Manager - Marketing

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 3-8 yrs

Job Description:

I.Financial 

Full accountability for development of pricing and pricing strategies along with commercial budget(s) spend and allocation. Responsibility towards maximizing gross contribution at segment and brand level at targeted sales volume

II.Market Complexity 

This role will lead the innovation & launch agenda across brands and segments as well as future hunting grounds

III.Leadership Responsibilities 

Leading and influencing a cross functional team and key stakeholders
Leading the concept development process
Leading commercialisation and revenue generation of new and ongoing brands


Purpose of Role 

The opportunity space is large and diverse, as well as attractive & challenging. This role will require strong strategic skills, as it will lead the thinking on overall strategy, business model, consumer initiatives, brand planning, and budget management across the various geographies & categories. A key part of this role is to also ensure the use of creative excellence, disciplined project leadership and management in crafting new opportunities from multiple start points. The ability to navigate through key stakeholders within the organization will be necessary for success and traction. As a key business stakeholder you will also be the repository of learning for future opportunities, on which the business will lean on for development of business strategies.


Top 3-5 Accountabilities 

(a) Revenue generation (residential sales turnover of Rs.7000 cr. in FY 2010-1; top 2 in India)
(b) P&L Management (brands with LCV ranging from Rs. 300 cr. to Rs. 18,000 cr. )
(c) Market Share (we are no. 1 in all India sales for CY 11 & in Mumbai Metropolitan Region the next 5 players add up to our numbers)
(d) Brand imagery (most desired real estate brand in Mumbai as per syndicated research by a top research firm and also the no.1 spender in the RE category)

Desired Candidate Profile

Candidates from top b-schools (IIMs, FMS, XLRI, IIFT, JBIMS, NMIMS) preferred batches would be 2003 - 2007) currently working with best FMCG, consumer durables, automobiles or other consumer facing businesses. Candidates should have had hands-on experience on marketing launches, using marketing channels to create qualitative quantitative value for the brand, anchoring research & consumer insights, exposure to brand management practices, proven marketing strategy execution capabilities.
People & Competencies
Personal
I.Leadership
II.Unhindered sense of team work and strong communication to build networks
III.Never giving-up spirit =>able to get action, convince and finally get agreement
IV.Flexibility, ability to adapt to fast-changing environment Business

I.Quality of thinking (strategic, structured and problem solving)
II.Vision based approach rather with the balance of task based
III.Able project manager
IV.Understand and influence the key functions to ensure strategy delivery
V.Output-orientated along consumer & market oriented

Suitable candidates can send their updated resumes to shalmali.sharma@lodhagroup.com