Showing posts with label MBA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MBA. Show all posts

Saturday, 16 January 2021

Human Resources Officer (Networking and Employer Branding)

 Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Human Resources Officer (Networking and Employer Branding)

New Delhi

HR.Support.India@new-delhi.msf.org

Vacancies:

1

Last date of application:

January 25, 2021

Expected starting date:

N/A

General

  • Position: Human Resources Officer (Networking and Employer Branding)
  • No. of vacancies: 1 (One)
  • Location of Job: MSF India Branch Office, New Delhi
  • Department: Human Resources
  • Reporting to: Deputy Head of Human Resources
  • Closing Date: 25th January 2021
  • Annual Salary (before TDS): INR 10,72,233 – INR 12,06,920
  • Email: HR.Support.India@new-delhi.msf.org

Background

MSF is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that intervenes in emergencies and crises, to relieve human suffering from unmet medical needs and to create a space for humanity. MSF works to provoke a social and political response that meets the essential needs, and respects and protects the dignity, of people in danger. MSF strives to innovate and incite change through its medical action, its “témoignage” and its active reflection on the situation of populations in danger. Respecting its Charter and shared principles, MSF is an independent movement of citizen associations that are integrated and open to their societies. In a spirit of volunteerism, acting in proximity to and in solidarity with assisted peoples, MSF’s members adhere to humanitarian principles and respect for medical ethics. MSF has worked in India since 1999, providing free-of-charge essential healthcare to people in remote areas, and specialist care for people affected by HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, kala azar and sexual and gender-based violence. We also respond to natural disasters and other emergencies, provide mental healthcare and advocate for the development of more effective and affordable medicines to improve access to treatment for people everywhere. We currently run projects in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, and Telangana. MSF has projects in more than 70 countries. MSF India is one of 24 institutional offices pooling funding, expertise and staff for MSF field operations worldwide. MSF was awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development in 1996 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. MSF India is a people-focused humanitarian organization that offers a diverse, collaborative, and inclusive work environment. We believe this approach enhances our work and we are committed to equity in employment. We embrace diverse backgrounds of people working together to exhibit their passion in action for the social mission of MSF. Médecins Sans Frontieres, as a responsible employer, invites persons with disability with an interest in the humanitarian area to apply for the vacant position.

Job Purpose

  • To recruit suitably qualified and experienced medical/paramedical and specialized professionals for regional missions in India, including emergency response activities in order to ensure regional

Tuesday, 12 January 2021

Assistant Director, University Partnerships (APAC)

 Coursera

Assistant Director, University Partnerships (APAC)

GURGAON  

PARTNERSHIPS & CONTENT STRATEGY – UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS

FULL-TIME EXEMPT

Coursera is a leading online learning platform for higher education, where 76 million learners from around the world come to learn skills of the future. More than 200 of the world’s top universities and industry educators partner with Coursera to offer courses, Specializations, certificates, and degree programs. Thousands of companies trust the company’s enterprise platform Coursera for Business to transform their talent. Coursera for Government equips government employees and citizens with in-demand skills to build a competitive workforce. Coursera for Campus empowers any university to offer high-quality, job-relevant online education to students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Coursera is backed by leading investors that include Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, Learn Capital, and SEEK Group.

 

The University partnerships team is responsible to source the best possible content and programs for our learners from 160+ of the best universities worldwide. This requires us to build strong and long-lasting relationships with our partners and to work closely with them to define and execute their strategy.

 

As part of the team, you will build and manage a portfolio of universities, working closely with them to build trusting relationships, proactively understanding their context and concerns, and help Coursera leverage such partnerships to achieve its goals.

 

Your work will demand that you can interface with a range of stakeholders from senior-level leadership to instructors and program managers. Central to your work is the ability to demonstrate and ensure Coursera’s value to the institution while shaping a strategy for the partnership that drives long-term engagement.

Your Responsibilities:

Source Content and Credentials: Source the content and credentials including degrees, MasterTracks™, specializations, courses to be delivered on Coursera platform and negotiate business and service terms associated with partner relationships

Relationships: Influence and inspire partners by engaging with university stakeholders at all levels including: faculty, deans, administrators, and provosts

Revenues: Grow revenues at a high rate by identifying, prioritizing, and executing on opportunities to create shared value across all of Coursera channels that can transform the lives of learners

Leadership: Align cross-functional teams to efficiently deliver for partners by acting as the primary Coursera contact, coordinating and inspiring teams to deliver success

Strategic initiatives: Drive adoption of strategic initiatives by developing campus-wide digital strategies, identify business opportunities, and shape solutions

Distribution: Help drive enrollments in B2C and B2B channels by working with other teams on value proposition, positioning, pricing, cohort targets, and marketing of your portfolio’s content. Ad hoc

Administrative Assistant

 The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)

Administrative Assistant

Organization: The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) is an international non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, dedicated to activities that result in: 1) new diagnostic tools; 2) expanded access to these tools; and 3) strengthened diagnostic testing capacity for poverty-related diseases in low- and middle-income countries. FIND India is a subsidiary of FIND, Geneva.

FIND is established in India as an independent non-profit Foundation created under Section 8 (Indian) Companies Act, 2013, with its offices in New Delhi. FIND India is the key implementing partner of Central TB Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt of India for strengthening and expanding TB laboratory diagnostic capacity within the National Tuberculosis Elimination Program (NTEP) supported by the Global Fund.

FIND India awarded as sub recipient under CDC-ASLM project “Laboratory Quality System Strengthening”, it has two activities 1) Implementation of GeneXpert / CBNAAT External Quality Assurance System in India 2) Strengthening TB Laboratory Management Towards Accreditation in India” (TBSLMTA)

Location: New Delhi

Your responsibilities:

• Assist in Travel arrangements process for project staff

• Assist in procurement of project related activities

• Assist in Claim submission to finance

• Supports in organizing internal and external meetings/workshops, conferences

• Reconcile travel related documents of the staff/consultants with onwards submission to finance department

• Coordinating with Project Coordinator and project staff for project related activities

• Verification of the travel claims, and compiling travel reports related to the project

• Reconcile all other relevant invoices and maintain project wise billing coordination

• Maintain a detailed record for quick and efficient retrieval of travel related information (project wise)

• Any additional task as deemed necessary for FIND, India

 

Qualifications and experience required:

• MBA/Postgraduate. • At least 3 years of work experience

• Candidates with experience of working in Travel, Event, Admin and Procurement experience in

Monday, 11 January 2021

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)

 The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)

Manager - Data Strategy & Analytics

Hyderabad, India

 

Description

Summary of the Position

The Data Strategy and Analytics Manager is a supervisory position with the Pricing, Strategy, and Analytics department. The Data Strategy and Analytics team performs a centralized business analytics function for USP – supporting all levels of the organization including the Executive Team. The Data Strategy and Analytics Manager perform an integral role in relation to data collection, modeling, and analysis. The Data Strategy and Analytics Manager perform and coordinate various analyses surrounding business problems and partners with the manager to make recommendations accordingly. She or he communicates analytical results to non-technical audiences – translating analyses into concise and clear business recommendations.

Roles and Responsibilities

·         Lead analytics for the India Site including developing and managing self-serving dashboards and providing insights and recommendations.

·         Collaborate with Sales and Marketing teams in India and global sites and conducts in-depth analysis to support strategic planning.

·         Build and manage the Analytics team at the India site as well as act as an individual contributor when needed.

·         Coach, mentor, and develop staff, including overseeing new employee onboarding and providing career development planning and opportunities.

·         Empower employees to take responsibility for their jobs and goals. Delegate responsibility and expect accountability and regular feedback.

·         Provides clear, thorough, accurate, and consistent analyses from a variety of disparate data sources including, but not limited to, sales transactions, operations, and web traffic data.

·         Creates highly sophisticated analytic frameworks and functional models to provide recommendations for solving key business problems.

·         Uses internal and external data sources to develop analytical models to answer business questions.

·         Acts as a thought partner with colleagues across USP on how to resolve unique business problems using analytics. Partners include program unit heads, site heads, and strategy leaders.

·         Takes complex data and distills it into relevant information, documents, and/or presentations for multiple-levels of leadership audiences.

·         Partake in data quality improvement and integration project as part of USP long-term data strategy.

·         Sets and manages internal partner expectations related to specific deliverables.

·         Project examples include forecasting, sales and revenue analysis, customer segmentation, business development, and growth strategy.

·         Develops ad hoc reports and analyses as needed.

·         Other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

·         MBA or other relevant master’s degree preferred such as Data Science, Analytics, Statistics, Information Systems, Computer or Health Science related fields.

·         Undergraduate degree required. Preferred majors in pharmacy, chemistry, biology, or other science degrees.

·         8 or more years of experience in applying analytics to solve broad strategic business problems.

·         2 years of management experience.

·         Proficient with MS Office Suite, Data Manipulation, Data Visualization.

·         Strong problem-solving techniques, ability to prioritize, and excellent communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

·         Advanced level analytical and strategic thinking skills required.

·         Advanced level of data interpretation and problem-solving skills required.

·         Highly proficient data manipulation skills including SQL and solid knowledge of relational

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AHMEDABAD

 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AHMEDABAD

 Requires

 Executive - Accreditation and Ranking

      Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) is one of the premier educational institutes of the world providing Post Graduate Programmes in Management. IIMA’s Accreditation and Ranking Department is looking for a young and dynamic Executive. The job description is as follows:

 

Job Description:

·      Ability to understand the information needs of the organisation and assist in the rankings and accreditations work for benchmarking purpose at large

·      Collate information (data and learnings) form internal departments, participants and stakeholders

·      Put in place mechanisms to ensure accuracy, quality and relevance of data and learnings

·      Create or augment MIS through collaborative efforts with technical teams and data sourcing points across functions, activities, projects, stakeholders to preserve and update data, content, learnings with the objective of systematic Information, Knowledge Management

·      Flexible and quick to adapt to dynamic information requests, plan and meet deadlines from external ranking, accreditation agencies and organizational requirements

·      Analyse ranking outcomes for benchmarking, understanding competitors, identify quality improvement areas, cause and effect of ranking scores across time line data through relevant statistical tools and techniques.

·    Write detailed reports, present results on how to best use ranking parameter scores, research/survey outcome findings

        ·      Perform administrative duties assigned and required on the job

 

Key Skills/Abilities:

·      Superior data management skills, including Microsoft Office suite and Use of Statistical tools and techniques

·      Good understanding of Higher Education Sector and ability to use internet, secondary research to articulate and identify emerging trends in the sector

        ·      Good understanding of Data Management System at organizational level

·      Extensive report writing and communication skills, with attention to detail, accuracy and quality consciousness

        ·      Ability to collaborate and work well across organization departments

        ·      Good interpersonal skills and strong networking

        ·      Multi-tasking with good time management skills

 

Qualification, Experience & Skill Requirements:

·      Desired candidate should be post graduate (full time Masters) completed with first class, from

a recognized university with relevant experience of 1-2 years in Higher Education Institutions or Market Research/Survey Organizations or similar. MBA with relevant experience in MIS and matching skills will be an advantage.

·      Graduates with first class from recognized university and with minimum 2-3 years of experience in similar roles with excellent writing, analytical and numerical skill may be considered.

 

Age: Max. 30 years as on the last date of application.

 

Salary & Allowances:

      Selected candidate will be offered a fixed term appointment initially for a period of three years on a consolidated monthly salary on CTC mode. The contract may be extended at the end of three years, if the performance is found satisfactory.

 Interested candidates are advised to APPLY ONLINE latest by January 27, 2021.

For more information click here and for online application click here

Sunday, 10 January 2021

United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)

 United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)

Senior Director, Regional Program Operations (Regional General Manager) South Asia

Hyderabad, India

Description

Summary of the Position

This is a supervisory leadership position that will lead the development and execution of strategies to advance public health through USP quality standards and allied products and services with the objective to enhance the quality of medicines, dietary supplements, and foods. This role is directly responsible for leading externally facing functions for USP in the South Asia region including customer engagement, customer service, external affairs including public policy and regulatory affairs, government & stakeholder relations, scientific affairs as well as education programs, verification programs, monograph donations, market research and insights, data analytics and other relevant activities.

The incumbent will establish strong and collaborative relationships with senior industry leaders and leading public officials and stakeholders in South Asia and represent the organization at high-level events. The incumbent will be responsible for market situation and analysis, new products/service introduction & launches, for the successful implementation of USP programs and new business development and will lead USP’s growth effort in the region by applying an in-depth understanding of the market, public health priorities, and strategic acumen.

Roles and Responsibilities

·         General Management:

·         Lead and manage USP South Asia’s Marketing, External Affairs, Scientific Affairs as well as Strategy & Insights units, aligned with USP corporate culture, mission, and public health programs in the region.

·         Matrix Management: Ensure that regionally based department staff collaborates closely with counterparts from across the USP global organization.

·         Talent and Leadership Development: Ensure talent recruitment, development, and retention as well the establishment of a leadership pipeline in the department

·         Strategy and Marketing :

·         Lead the development and execution of regional strategy, plans and programs, both short- and long-range to support business goals and the objectives of the organization by working closely with the USP global organization.

·         Identify and execute local growth plans in priority countries within the region, in partnership with the USP Global Organization.

·         Develop and hold a sophisticated understanding of the region to establish strategies for the priority countries.

·         Oversee the Strategy and Insights team (Includes Market Research and Data Analytics teams) who support global projects from India.

·         Customer Engagement (CE):

·         Drive visibility and engagement by representing USP in various industry forums and outreach, including CEO/CXO level executives in the industry, and continue to strengthen USP’s brand awareness

·         Lead locally based Customer Engagement (CE) staff by supporting and reviewing the implementation of regional CE goals. Develop capability among second-level leadership. Oversee the channel partners/distributors strategy and their performance in the region for ensuring new business development and sustaining existing business

·         Develop a keen understanding of customer needs, identify opportunities for USP to address those needs, and further the USP Mission. Work closely with the USP global organization to convert customer need and USP opportunities to programs where feasible

·         Promote all USP products, services, and programs at trade events, conference using the appropriate media, collateral, and promotional tools

·         Oversee, guide, and develop the capabilities of Customer Service Staff and ensure they are able to provide superior levels of support to all stakeholders.

USP Education:

·         Lead the USP Education initiatives in South Asia including the development of a long-term strategy

Saturday, 9 January 2021

Vital Strategies

 Vital Strategies

Position Description

Financial Controller

Location         India

Department    Finance

Openings        1

 

Job Brief

Financial Controller

Vital Strategies is an international public health organization. Our programs strengthen public health systems and address the world’s leading causes of illness, injury, and death. We currently work in 73 countries, supporting data-driven decision making in government, advancing evidence-based public health policies, and mounting strategic communication campaigns. Vital Strategies’ priorities are driven by the greatest potential to improve and save lives. They include non-communicable disease prevention, cardiovascular health promotion, tobacco control, road safety, obesity prevention, epidemic prevention, overdose prevention, environmental health, vital statistics systems building and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment research. Our programs are primarily concentrated in low-and middle-income countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific; The Overdose Prevention Program is our first initiative in the U.S. Please visit our website at www.vitalstrategies.org to find out more about our work.

Vital Strategies offers highly competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. Vital welcomes and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. As such, our commitment is to promote equal employment opportunities (EEO) for all applicants seeking employment.

About the Role:
 

Vital Strategies will be opening a new company office in India and this role will have responsibility for all financial and fiscal management of the local company operations. The Financial Controller will provide leadership and coordination in the business planning, finance, accounting, forecasting, budgeting, tax, and compliance efforts of the company. The Financial Controller will also be a key member of the India Senior Management team and will supervise the finance unit in India.

 

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Strategy & Leadership

·         Participate in key decisions as a member of the Sr. Management Team

·         Monitor and direct the implementation of strategic business plans with focus on financial and tax strategies; develop performance measures that support the company's strategic direction and funding

·         Maintain in-depth relations with all members of the India management team, NY SVP of Finance, International Finance Officer and CFO

·         Supervise the India finance & accounting team ensuring the department is staffed with qualified financial personnel and that there is support for the development of these team members

 

Finance, Accounting, Treasury

·         Oversee the accounting (payable, receivable, payroll, bank), compliance, legal, tax (TDS, GST, ITR), and treasury activities.

·         Oversees the general accounting function, which includes Billing/Credit/A/R, A/P, Bank accounting and operations, monthly closing, Audit, General Ledger Management, fixed assets, inter-company accounting, financial reporting, and balance sheet management

·         Manage the invoicing process with Headquarter and transfer pricing,

·         Manage reconciliation of Intercompany financial activities

·         Manage the capital request and budgeting processes

·         Prudent cash flow management, ensure timely payments, monitor cash balances and forecasts

·         Provide the Board and NY Finance team with financial reports

·         Manage any third parties to which functions have been outsourced

·         Oversee and ensure the company's transaction processing systems is compliant with Headquarter financial coding system (Program, department, …)

·         Implement operational best practices; establish a review process to continuously improve financial accounting practices, and related policies and procedures

·         Work closely with the local Operations Manager to update, implement, and provide guidance on finance-related business policies

·         Assumes principal responsibility for improving and standardizing financial consolidation and reporting processes across the company

·         Effectively communicate and present critical financial matters to the company director and Sr. Finance staff in NY

 

Financial Risk Management

·         Ensure the company complies with all legal and regulatory requirements

·         Understand and mitigate key elements of the company's risk profile.

·         Develop, implement, and maintain internal control procedures to provide reasonable assurance