Reporting to:                         Managing Director

Connects with:                      Other Heads, Directors, Studio Manager

Basedin:                            Mumbai

Key responsibilities :

• Lead the analysis, conceptual thinking and strategic approach to a client brief with the support of the senior team
• Write fee proposals and company presentations for presentation to prospective clients
• Lead creative brainstorm meetings (internally and with clients) to develop Agency’s analysis, conceptual thinking and strategic approach to a client brief with the support of the project team
• Present Agency’s approach, rationale and concepts to a client with the support of the management team
• Direct and coordinate design team members to deliver the required solution to a project brief
• Review Agency’s work and act as final ‘quality control’ viewing the project through the client’s eyes
• Be responsible for team motivation, career development and project recruitment/resourcing to deliver a project to the required level of detail
• Be responsible for internal cost control and project spend regarding time spent and costs accrued against a project
• Be responsible for project administration, notes and client correspondence

Other duties and responsibilities:

• Develop Agency’s design approach and design strategies           
• Write articles that relate to your area of work
• Identify and develop new business opportunities                                   
• Support PR effort by talking to the media where required, providing source material for press releases and keeping the PR Coordinator
• informed of openings and key dates for PR opportunities

Knowledge, skills and abilities required:

Experience:            

• At least 10 years experience in commercial design agency or architectural firm
• Client  & project management
• Budget management

Knowledge:                      

• Degree level education in a design discipline
• Knowledge and passion for great design
• Extensive knowledge and experience of the 5 key design stages

Skills:                                

• Creative thinking
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing
• Computer literacy, good/advanced knowledge of various design software packages and willingness to develop technical skill
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to manage your own workload to achieve the required work on-time and to the required level of finish and detail

Attitude:                       

• Commitment to the company’s philosophy and aims
•  Flexible, willingness to complete tasks to deadlines and occasional late working if required (as per industry standard)
•  Diligent and tenacious.
• Calm, unflappable manner
• Positive, energetic and can-do attitude, social interaction

What to do if you are the person

Write to – sanjeev@bullzi-inc.com or vidya@bullzi-inc.com immediately

This position is for the India operations of the global leaders in the legal and taxation publishing and knowledge vertical.

It is based in Gurgaon and reports to the Managing Director.

Purpose

The  APD – Legal & Tax Publishing drives performance against the agreed legal and tax publishing schedule within budgeted costs. Performance includes delivering budgeted revenue for scheduled publishing events, managing within assigned product/editorial cost targets and providing effective leadership for the editorial teams.

The APD ensures the integrity; utility and currency of editorial content are maintained across the editorial teams. The APD is responsible for ensuring that the editorial teams’ portfolio responsibilities are met or exceeded including strict adherence to the publishing schedule and compliance with standards, including editorial benchmarks and quality assurance measures.

Primary responsibilities of the role include: integration of publishing process of any assets/titles acquired; managing the publishing programme; maintaining financial performance of the portfolio by actively managing key cost drivers and individual product margin; leadership of the legal and tax editorial dept; and working with marketing in the formulation and implementation of strategy for the development of new and existing products within the portfolio through the annual product review cycle and product development process.

Responsibilities also include: reporting monthly results and formulating budget/RF; overseeing process and quality improvement initiatives within the team to achieve best practice; managing key author and customer relationships; and managing key relationships with other departments.

The APD is required to formulate and drive necessary change programmes to improve performance and/or reduce costs and is required to promote and instill company values.

The APD will contribute as required to the formulation of market entry or acquisition opportunities for example, providing any necessary support and input into the creation of product concepts, editorial resource planning and author acquisition for new markets or other revenue generating opportunities.
Accountabilities

•    Publishing Schedule – Deliver the legal and tax publishing schedule as agreed at Budget or revised forecast.
•    Financial Accountability – Set budget/RF cost targets, manage production and editorial costs within forecast, drive productivity improvement and provide thorough financial reporting of progress against plan on a monthly basis.
•    Leadership – Provide strong leadership and management of legal and tax editorial teams to promote ownership, common vision and objectives to support strategic goals for Indian markets.
•    Portfolio Management – Actively manage the product portfolio including identifying key profit drivers and diluters and overseeing the implementation of a robust and sustainable product development pipeline designed to meet the growth expectations for each market as determined in consultation with the Content Manager and MD.
•    New market opportunities – Provide all necessary input and support, as required, for new market opportunities including for example: the formulation of product concepts for market testing; editorial resource planning;
•    Performance Management – Responsible for performance management and development for first-line supervisors, including regular coaching and mentoring and delivering formal performance evaluations.
•    Best Practice – Implement any necessary change programmes to achieve best practice work processes and ensure adherence to guidelines, policies, procedures and checklists.  Embed into organizational measures of performance.
•    Communication – Build effective relationships with colleagues, customers (internal and external) and senior management to ensure efficient execution of day-to-day operations and strategic plans.
•    External Relationships – Provide effective guidance and management of key external relationships, including contract negotiation, as required.

Qualifications, Competence and Experience

QUALIFICATIONS:
•    University degree or equivalent in law, qualified lawyer
•    Significant senior management experience
•    Publishing experience will be an advantage
•    Strong relationship-building and performance management skills
•    Strong commercial/business acumen
•    Demonstrated financial and budget management skills, including experience in financial reporting
•    Understanding of printing
•    Sound level of computer literacy
•    Computer skills in Microsoft Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint
•    Working knowledge of technologies used in the publishing process such as SGML/HTML/XML
•    Working knowledge of publishing workflow from idea conception through to receipt by customer
•    Excellent communication, organisation and problem-solving skills.

COMPETENCIES:
•    Build successful team
•    Coaching and mentoring
•    Developing people
•    Leadership
•    Business/commercial acumen
•    Decision making
•    Planning and organising
•    Drive for results
•    Change leadership
•    Communication
•    Leading through vision and values
•    Balance between quality and production

EXPERIENCE :
•    At least 15 years work experience, with at least 5 years experience at a senior management level.
•    A proven track-record in the successful application of law qualification, either as an advocate at a minimum High Court level or within a large organisation as legal advisor / counsel
•    A proven track-record in developing and maintaining relationships at a high level ( judges, senior advocates, CEOs, directors ) within either the corporate or legal market

How to apply

Write to sanjeev@bullzi-inc.com in confidence OR call Sanjeev roy at 0124-4042994

This position is with the leader in online and home video rentals. The company is a well funded strong brand name and headquatered out of Bangalore. It already has operations in 6 cities and has a very strong presence in Chennai.

The Job

Profit centre head for Chennai. Responsible for growth of customer base, providing the best customer service, leading and managing a cross functional team and continuously reviewing and improving on return on investments.

– Will  work with multiple sales channels and continuosly work out the best ‘Cost of acquisition’ for new customers

– Seek out mutually beneficial alliances with other corporations and organisations

– Seek customer feedback and monitor the service provided on a daily basis

– Look to keep and get the best talent across disciplines

Qualifications

– Candidate will have atleast 10 + years of experience of which atleast 4 have been in positions of leadership managing multi fuctional teams

– Have sales experience from a consumer electronics/durables/fmcg handling distribution along with experience in telecom/insurance/loan selling in a leadership position

– Has managed customer service expectations

– Understands logistics and has been directly responsible for managing the logistics (stocks) in a multi SKU company in any previous assignment

– Has experience of managing multiple sales channels

– Is open to trying newer methods continuously and learning

– Is a great executor

Compensation

Significantly higher than industry

Write immediately to – sanjeev@bullzi-inc.com

A senior technology professional with at least 7 to 10 years in a leadership role:

1.      Hands on knowledge and experience of building and maintaining industrial-scale, consumer facing, mission-critical, Web-based platforms with high levels of scalability, performance and up-time (24X7).

2.      Knowledge of concepts and platforms for distributed file and operating systems, databases, building scaleable systems using commodity hardware, clustering, storage networks, other systems such as load-balancers, anti-spam filters etc.

3.      Knowledge of Open Source platforms, particularly LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) – Web18’s products are largely built on this the LAMP architecture

4.      Knowledge and experience of Web application development (including Web2.0 technologies such as Ajax, Flash, Web-crawlers, indexing, streaming media, etc..)

5.      Experience of negotiating with vendors (hardware, software, hosting/Telco etc.)

6.      Leadership skills: ability to motivate and lead a medium-sized team of software and hardware engineers

7.      Ability to attract new talent and mentor and grow existing high-performers

8.      Process discipline: put in place proper processes for product life-cycle management and documentation practices

9.      Service orientation: Work in partnership with the senior team (COOs, CFO, Senior Editors, CEO) to meet and exceed their requirements and deliver the best technology platform in the industry bar none … at the lowest cost!

10.     Action-oriented: Our Client is a fast-paced Consumer Internet company and part ofa large group, the fastest growing media conglomerate in India.

The role is Mumbai-based and the timing is immediate

Qualifications

– Engineering graduate from a reputed institute OR comparable degree

– Overall experience between 18 and 20 years of which 7-10 in leadership positions

– Demonstrated technical skills and collaborative approach

Write immediately to sanjeev@bullzi-inc.com 

Role
The role is to lead the design and implementation of all the products at the company. The ideal candidate has extensive experience designing, building, and deploying public consumer facing web sites and some major products. The client seeks an experienced technologist who loves technology, thrives in a multi-disciplinary collaborative environment, and doesn´t mind rolling up their sleeves to code. The successful candidate will be part of the senior management team of the company.
Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural platform design and release products;
• Design, build, and test products;
• Help to build & lead the development team
• Be the first to help us get to the market
• Be a visionary, an evangelist, an entrepreneur & an innovative individual to lead the change.

Requirements
Extensive (10 years plus) and demonstrable experience architecting, building, and deploying large multi-tiered consumer-facing products; Ability to handle multiple concurrent projects. Experience building scalable, flexible, robust, and secure architectures for high traffic websites; Driven by agile methodologies and test-driven development; Willingness to “own the code” and build pieces of the system; Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and technical team management; Solid knowledge of .Net/SQL/HTML/ XML/CSS/Javascript/Ajax/Flash, web application architecture, scalable deployment
Work Experience:

• 10+ years experience in Software development, Product Development, Project Management etc
• At least 4+ years managing a mid-size development team of 20 -30 engineers & testers
• Should have experience developing and managing ecommerce websites in the full PLC
• Should have hands-on development skills in .NET, SQL 2005 and web technologies
• Should be able to Architect and provide technical leadership to team
• Should have managed IT networks and be comfortable with networking and systems management
• Should have good understanding of the Testing – (Manual & Automated)
• Experience with systems integration a plus
• Good People Management & Leadership Skills
• Should have Experience in running technology division of a startup

Location: Bangalore
Compensation: Based on experience/skills
Benchmark Companies: The ideal candidate will come from one of the travel sites, portals, large e-com based sites.

Interested candidates please write immediately to – vidya@bullzi-inc.com OR sanjeev@bullzi-inc.com

Reporting to:    CFO

Job Summary
•    Responsible for leading a team of professionals in India and the United States
•    Oversight of  all aspects of Financial management including:
•    US SEC Reporting and compliance with Sarbanes Oxley
•    US GAAP & Indian GAAP Accounting; Budgeting; MIS;
•    Treasury & Cash Management; Statutory Compliances under India laws
•    Direct and indirect taxation

Key responsibilities  
•    Supervision of accounting functions in India and US
•    Accounts closure and consolidation under US & Indian GAAP.
•    Smoothly managing the quarterly and annual earnings release process – liaising with international lawyers and auditors
•    Ensuring quarterly and annual reporting to US investors and compliance under US SEC regulations.
•    Integration of the ERP system (SUN) with other IT systems of the Company.
•    Efficient cash management for funds of roughly Rs. 250 crores in India and US.
•    Implementation of effective internal controls across the organization including compliance with SOX 404
•    Direct and indirect taxation – returns, assessments, tax planning
•    Investor Relationship management
•    Future assignments include migration to IFRS and an Indian public listing.

Professional Qualification 
Essential:    CA
Experience:        12 yrs of experience in service sector desirable      but not essential

Other skills & qualities:    * Sound knowledge of the priciples and practice of accounting
*Exposure to US GAAP / IFRS and Sarbanes Oxley desirable
* Strong interpersonal / communication skills.
* Ability to manage a professional team
* Strong systems skills and hands on exposure to ERP systems.
* Ability to multi-task and meet critical deadlines
* Sound problem solving and analytical skills
* Attention to detail.
* Ability to work independently, yet cooperatively and constructively, in a team environment.

Please apply in confidence to : vidya@bullzi-inc.com OR sanjeev@bullzi-inc.com

The Company

A globally renowned advertising agency. One of the marque brands in the communication business. Has created some of the most enduring brands that are global leaders. Has recently started operations in India.

Approach to the work is highly media agnostic

The Job

The Direcor Operations will manage the entire delivery aspect for the agency. This includes deliveries to deadlines, quality control, cost management, people management et al.

He will manage deliveries from  the approved concept and media stage into execution. Will therefore need to have thorough knowledge of all media – print, audio-visual, digital, ambient, customer contact programmes… Will take the decisions on outsourcing and inetrnal resources. WIll be connected to what is new and how it works.

Will set up the systems and processes that are sensitive to the business and still protect the integrity of the operations.Will take the final call on the delivery team.

This is a senior position and part of the group that will run the agency.

The position is based in Mumbai.
Remuneration includes ESOPs besides a very attractive package.

The Right Candidate

Has atleast 10-12 years experience in an agency/media set up. is currently in a leadership position

Strong leadership qualities. Strong communication. High integrity. Very high and infectious energy.

Thorough knowledge of different media and consumer contact points.

Has carried delivery responsibilities in more than two media – print, audio-visual, digital, events, feet -on-street etc.

Strong on processes and systems. Good understanding of business and finance.

Call on +919811110747 or write to sanjeev@bullzi-inc.com

The Organisation

Our client is:

– A Top 10 advertising network
– Part of a global conglomerate with specific strengths in Asia
– India has been a traditionally strong market for this agency
– Agency had embarked 3 years ago on an ambitious plan of growth and restructuring which is now paying off. Size has doubled. new divisions have been acquired. Significant businesses have been added.
– Now is the time for focus on product.

The Candidate

– Minimum 14 years experience of which 3/4 years in a business head position in advertising
– Must have lead multi functional teams
– Experience in career of leading large brands desired
– Credentials must include the championing of great brand campaigns
– This is a leadership position in the largest and most competitive market in India. Exceptional leadership abilities are being sought.
– A passion for the product and love of the business is critical
– Experience of pitching for and winning significant businesses desired

Applying

In the strictest confidence, write to – sanjeev@bullzi-inc.com or call Sanjeev Roy on = +919811110747

Digital is beginning to move from being a side dish to centre of plate in advertising. The leaders of the advertising/communication business will be those who have mastered the digital medium and use the skills and knowledge of brand building and consumer understanding to build great brands.

Our client’s business is based on this premise and is amongst the most successful businesses of the last decade. It is now part of a global conglomerate but continues its existence as a separate company. It has a pan India presence and the Mumbai office is over a year old with significant businesses to its credit.

The Assignment

– Profit centre head for the office

– Growing the business and the reputation in the market

– Leading a team of talented individuals

– Providing the ‘brand’ perspective to solutions

– Leading the Client Management function

The Candidate

– An advertising professional with 8-11 years work experience in the client servicing function

– Understands the language of brands and knows  how communication plays a role in them

– Has experience of working on significant brands and has proven client handling credentials

– Has handled a  growing team for at least 5 years

– Ideally handled new business pitches

If you believe you are the person for this role and are ready to perform a bigger role, write to vidya@bullzi-inc.com or sanjeev@bullzi-inc.com. Alternatively call Vidya at +919322037070 or Sanjeev at +919811110747. Needless to say confidence will be maintained.

The Company

India’s largest Learning and Development Company. Multiple locations. Different practices. Experiencing exponential growth with a vision of growing 10 times within 36 months.

Expect employee base (current approx 650) to treble/quadruple over the same time period.

The Talent Requirement

– Across the spectrum, from entry level to Business Heads, Functional Heads.

– Managing the pipeline on account of attrition and growth

– Multiple channel expertise

– Managing on boarding

The Candidate

– Experience of handling large volume talent acquisition programmes

– National level exposure

– Must be from services industry, financial services will be a distinct advantage

– This is a leadership position and the candidate will be expected to handle Business Heads and manage their expectations

– Experience between 8-12 years

Prospects

– Position reports to the CEO

– Can grow into the company HR Head role.

Write to sanjeev@bullzi-inc.com or vidya@bullzi-inc.com with your profile or call at 0124-4042994