Director -Customer Support @Bangalore

This position has been forwarded to us by a NPA associate. Their client is a Nasdaq listed company with operations in over 120 countries, with solutions addressing a wide variety of enterprise customers.

Presently, we are on the look out for a topnotch professional to lead the regional ( catering to the Asia Pac customers) support center team in order to achieve direct and in direct client customer support to the client products and solutions.

The person would head a team of about 20 professionals to provide T1/T2 remote support with expected response time and meeting SLA agreements.

An Engineer with a strong exposure to customer support in one of following areas: SQL database, web application, CTI/PBX and VOIPs-would be the most preferred candidate!

Should you reach out to menon@optionsindia.com, I shall be glad to provide more information.

Here's a chance to woo at least 85 of the Fortune 100 companies!!

Practice Director-Telecom Software company in Mumbai

Here is an assignment from a fellow (overseas) NPA member.

The ideal person would

- have a good mix of project delivery, business development, account management and technical domain knowledge in telecoms software within tier 1 telecoms clients.

- presently be working in a big 4 consulting or tier 2 telecoms company

- be responsible for applications development and deployment and integration of intelligent software for Tier-1 telecommunication service providers to ensure voice, data, IP and content services over legacy and next generation networks.

Should you be a returned/returning Indian, this would be an excellent opportunity to utilise your business acumen and build a career in a company who are investing heavily in people development and their operational and business capability across Asia.

RSVP menon@optionsindia.com- before October 6th for more details and clarifications!

Happy hunting

IT requirements for Telecom @Mumbai

India is among the fastest growing telecom markets in the world.

We are presently working on some interesting mandates for middle and senior openings -apart from multiple openings in junior management -across projects in global design, development and deployment for telecom service fulfilment, assurance and billing systems.

Opportunities exist across departments like CRM, Billing, Data Warehousing, network and service management and such OSS/BSS (Operations Support Systems/Business Support Systems).

People having worked in software design and delivery are desired.

Specifically -experience and skills on Metasolv, Geneva, Oracle e-business suite, Amdocs Cramer, IBM Tivoli, Websphere Business Modeller/ Websphere Process Server is a big plus.

Should you be aware of professionals ie managers (at Senior Manager/Dy. GM levels - 10+ yrs experience), process managers, business analysts, delivery leads, testing engineers, architects (at Senior Manager/Dy. GM levels - 10+ yrs experience), please feel free to reach out to me or seema@optionsindia.com, and we shall be glad to keep you informed!

Have a great week ahead!

What are we presently working on?

The slow pace of the recruitment life cycle in the recent past, had probably psyched me too!! I just realise that its almost 3 months since I updated this section of my blog.

But as we reviewed last evening, there are opportunities galore..across industries,locations and levels. So let me try and list them out -not in any specific order, but more to try and capture the diversity.

-Country Manager for a MNC in the wimax space wanting to expand its presence in India. We are on the look out for a topnotch professional who has had strong grounding in the business unit operations and project deployment/ management in the burgeoning telecom industry. Be it from the Equipment manufacturers, or system integrator's and Tier 1 Operators!

-Director Sales to spearhead the penetration of a VC funded firm in the business of distributed water services sector in India.The project will provide access to affordable and clean drinking water to rural households, and hence requires the professional to work with various State government departments across the country.

-Director Rural Marketing based in Hyderabad. The onus is to provide ongoing outreach and education that effectively communicate the relationship of clean water, hygiene and good health. Ideal person would be familiar with all innovative methods to appeal to the consumers in the rural areas of India-be it advertising or folk music or street plays!

- Technical Architect for a IT startup setting up an offshore development centre for handling services for an American firm. Being the employee no. 2 in the firm, the role would involve the challenges of working in a bootstrapped environment, attracting and motivating talent to help shape the company...

-Business Development managers ( based in US and in Hyderabad) to represent a company in the Outsourced Product Development services domain. The decade old company has an impressive slew of products in house, and a powerhouse of talent -and is willing to reward attractive variable pay component to stretch the best!!

--A topnotch MNC player in the aseptic packaging is looking for Dairy/Food technologists with a strong grounding in microbiology -to help their clients adopt the best manufacturing practices, in a bid to raise the quality of raw milk sourcing/production and distribution in India.

- Treasury openings exist in Chennai and Hyderabad for professionals in the 3-8yrs experience.

Should you want to know specifically more about these openings, and similar ones not listed here, please also visit Seema's blog for IT positions, Sameer's for non IT positions, as also Karthik's blog for junior openings!! Of course, you can always reach out to me offline too -mailto:-menon@optionsindia.com for more clarifications.

Happy hunting!

Round up of jobs-as of 20th May

As I analyze the jobs posted on the NPA splitzone -the platform that about 400 of us associates of the global network use to share HOT candidates and HOT job openings, there are some interesting observations that are validated!!

1. There is hiring happening-as a trickle-but mostly these are all 'tough nuts to crack' types. "Wonderful to have' type requirements, which are almost perennially open-hoping and waiting for the 'elusive catch'!!

2. Almost all the positions posted are specialists in nature. Despite jobs being listed all across the globe, one underlying feature -is the lack of expat jobs!! Almost everyone wants local candidates to be hired -even if the positions are abroad.

As an associate from Israel explained it -"I serve Israeli clients in APAC and actually I am very busy and have lots of new openings in China, Singapore and AU. Lots of openings but slow to close if at all"

Well, I am hoping to get to work on a Nasdaq listed client of hers -who is looking for a VP Sales in India. 

3.Collaboration works better!! Over the past year-we have noticed that especially in cross border senior hires, it is very essential to be in sync with the cultural sensitivities-both at the client level and the candidate level-to make a great hire.

Recently, we closed a mandate for a Country Manager for a Canadian company referred to us by an American associate who successfully hand held us-by setting expectations and continuous communication!! The key is the 'consultative approach' that clinched us-instead of the usual 'commodity approach' when job descriptions are shared across the internet!

 

Well here is a sample of the indicative roles-let me know should you need more details, as we do not have the permission to reveal more information at this stage!

Test Equipment Engineer Salary Range: $65,000 - $74,000 Location: Alabama, USA

Maintenance Manager  Date: May 13, 2009 Salary Range: $65,000 - $80,000 Location: Ohio, USA

Senior Accountant Date: May 8, 2009 Salary Range: $60,000 - $65,000 Location: Florida, USA

Human Resources Manager Date: May 13, 2009 Salary Range: $70,0000  - $90,000 Location: Arkansas, USA

VP of Engineering Date: May 11, 2009 Salary Range : $170,000  - $200,000 Location: Washington, USA

General Manager - ECM Date: May 13, 2009 Salary Range: $150,000 - $300,000 Location: Queensland, Australia

Business Development Manager Date: May 11, 2009 Salary Range: $55,000 - $60,000  Location: New South Wales, Australia

Engineering Projects Manager Date: May 15, 2009 Salary Range: $150,000 - $160,000 Location: Victoria, Australia

Business Manager Date: May 15, 2009 Salary Range: $3,000 - $4,000 Location: Indonesia

Senior Information Systems Auditor Switzerland Date: May 12, 2009 Salary Range: $125,000 - $150,000 Location: Switzerland

 

By the way, hope you can review some of the jobs we are working in India-across different industries!

COO - for a turbine manufacturing company

Industrial Relations manager for a manufacturing co.

Employee Relations Manager - MNC firm

HR head for a growing services company

Director Product Development - MNC firm

Watch out for some senior openings coming up with an infrastructure (power) project and an auto manufacturing company shortly!!

Round up of jobs handled as of 30th March!

Hungry for Power!!

Its a feeling of deja vu as I try to list out some of the openings we are working on!!A lot of them happen to be in the infrastructure industry! In line with the latest 5 year plan -there are a lot of players in the power industry -trying to build capacity to bridge the growing demand and supply gap of almost 75000 MW!!

The positions are across the supply chain!! Across different levels and functions, for eg:

-Sr General manager-fund raising

-Sr Manager -civil construction

-Sales Manager-power generation equipment company

-Production manager -power generation company

-Quality and Materials Manager for a engineering company

-Legal professionals with exposure to power sector. Positions exist not just in the contracts area, but also in the litigation and at the legal research associate level!

Sticking to infra, we also have some positions for a company that handles turnkey projects-across the country-but for setting up water treatment plants in remote locations. Professionals with experience in project management, as well handling techno commercial functions, are in demand, as also those with experience in selling capital equipment.

In the telecom sector, not surprisingly-among the fastest growing markets in the world, we have mandates for:

1 Country Manager for a US based MNC in the telecom repair.

2. A Service centre manager to be based in the NCR Region.

3. Sales Manager for a MNC company in the wireless space

4. Sales positions in the telecom markets in AP. eg Zonal Business Head, as well as front line executives in the region, as the tele -operators expand their offerings. Ideal persons would be strong contenders from the FMCG industry with a good distribution profile.

5. An expert in the Broadband Remote Access Servers

We are also on the lookout for a Sales Head for a MNC in the construction chemicals client of ours. The ideal person would be a Civil Engineer with experience in technical selling thru a bunch of influencers, eg Architects, specifiers, consultants.

Last but not the least, a challenging assignment is to identify a textile engineer-who is familar with weaving from yarn to fabric, as also knowledgeable about ballistic testing in India. The ideal candidate would be responsible for setting up a state of art ballistic testing lab in India.

Should you wish to know more, please do give a shout. I shall be delighted to hear from you, if you can think of anyone with the above background!

RSVP menon@optionsindia.com

Hot jobs as of 28th January!

There are some roles that NEED to be filled urgently!!

Here are some of the roles that we at Options-and some of our associates have been entrusted with. Please feel free to reach out to menon@optionsindia.com, and I shall be glad to provide you with all the necessary inputs

CEO -EPC company -Delhi
R&D Head for a Pharma (Herbal) company in Philippines
SBU Head -transmission & distribution -Leading EPC -Delhi
Head -Litigation -for a power company -Hyderabad
Head -Budgets for a power project -Hyderabad
Project Head-power projects - Nagpur and Bilaspur
CFO in Chennai- expert in works contract , VAT
Transfer Pricing Expert-Mumbai/Delhi
Legal Head-Energy company-Chennai
CFO-Bulk drug firm -Hyderabad -CA, ACS must
VP Contracts & Bidding for EPC firm -Hyderabad.
IT architects in Datawarehousing/Intervowen/Pega/Vignette -Hyderabad &Chennai
BFSI Head-enterprise solutions sales-Mumbai

Looking forward to being of assistance asap!!

Marketing Head- India- MNC WiMAX and wireless industry

This is through another affiliate whose client, who with more than 3 million units deployed in 150 countries, is the world’s leading provider of innovative WiMAX and wireless broadband network solutions, designed to enable Personal Broadband to improve lifestyles and productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other services.

The client is looking for some to head India Market Development

Responsibilities

The incumbent, reporting to the VP of Corporate Strategy, will lead the corporate market development efforts in developing strategies and tactics for expanding the client's presence in service provider networks in India.

Specifically, the successful candidate will be responsible for anticipating customer and industry trends, and identifying / driving customer (OEM, integrators, local manufacturing and service providers), industry and company relationships,. The candidate will perform deep dives into selected strategic accounts to setup.

Primary Responsibilities:


The primary focus of the job is to figure out the client's long term business approach to Indian market which includes creating and closing partnerships, with key OEMs, channel partners, SI/services partners, software development companies, etc. This position will recommend key strategies for ALVR market entry and setup. The position will focus on setting up infrastructure for ALVR success in long term (3 – 5 years).

The ideal person would perhaps have:

* 10+ years of experience in the Telecom / Wireless industries.
* Demonstrated success in developing new business with wireless carriers and service providers.
* Proven experience in setting up large multimillion dollar deals.

Should you be aware of someone, please do feel free to reach out to menon@optionsindia.com!!

Opportunities for cutting edge work in avionics!

Thales group Thales group set to take off in India!!

With operations in 50 countries and 68,000 employees, Thales group is a world leader in Mission-critical information systems for the Aerospace, Defence and Security markets-and has been in Chennai for a little close to a year, hiring about 100 software engineers. The company is now said to be ramping up and is expected to treble its team strength in the next twelve months.

For all those techies-who wish to work with cutting edge technologies while still in India, here is a chance to work on aerospace applications..where the challenge is to develop error free systems.

Would you not want to rub shoulders with a team that has atleast a Nobel Prize winner this year??

While engineers from avionic domain are preferred, there is lot of room for those with embedded system programming, or even those from the telecom domain wanting to move, as well as those strong on Core Java, or C, C++, and even for those who have a strong grounding in setting up quality processes in a CMM level 3 company.

Should you wish to know more, please feel free to reach menon@optionsindia.com and I shall be glad to direct you accordingly...

Leadership positions- Telecom MNC in Bangalore

We are working on a mandate for hiring some topnotch professionals for a MNC telecom company in India.

There are a couple of exciting opportunities -based in Bangalore. Both of these postions report into the board, and involve a fair amount of international travel, as the customers/ business operations are spread across Asia and Europe.

We are looking for persons with over 20years experience in MNC organisations with matrix relationships and exposure to offshoring/outsourcing dynamics. One is a role handling customer relationships, and the other a Chief Technologist role-with some one very familiar with voice, mobile, data and ISP technologies and architecutre-and a good understanding of next generation networks.

Interviews are scheduled to happen later during this month. I shall be glad if you can help me reach out to the right profiles.

RSVP menon@optionsindia.com

Practice Head- Telecom enterprise applications @Chennai

Our Client is a specialized company providing outsourced technical support and customer service to technology clients in areas of:

o Consumer Technology Application Support
o Enterprise Technology Application Support
o Enterprise System Management Services
o Open Sources Technology Support

The ideal person we are looking for would have

- an overall experience of 14+ Years out of which 6 – 8 years managing an Enterprise Business in Networking or Telecom domain handling Client relationship management, people management, process creation and program management, and strategic planning.

- a proven track record in Resource Management, Metrics Management, Planning and Development of Middle Management, Goal setting, Conduct Reviews and give prompt feedbacks, setting and achieving new standards an taking full responsibility for Profit & Loss Management.

-A well rounded professional career with a balance of Technical and Management skills who enjoys working on diverse assignments in a fast paced environment to achieve business goals in a short time frame

Please feel free to reach me at my email id menon at optionsindia.com dot com!