Managing Director

• A managing director for India operations is a senior leadership role in our fast growing organization. The managing director oversees the organization's day-to-day operations and provides strategic input to the board and implements business strategy decided by the board/CEO.
• The role encompasses a broad range of responsibilities including making major corporate decisions, managing budgets and resources, leading employees, liaising with stakeholders, and being the public face of the company. A managing director is accountable to the board of directors and must align their actions with the overall strategic goals set for the organization by the Board.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• The core responsibilities of a managing director focus on the execution of business strategy. This includes:
  
  

Strategic Planning

• A key duty is contributing to strategic planning discussions to set organizational goals and priorities. The managing director provides input on feasibility, resource needs, and operational requirements to implement strategic plans.
• Once plans are finalized, the managing director spearheads the execution through budgets, workforce direction, and establishing policies and procedures to actualize the strategy.
  
  

Financial Management

• Manage the overall P&L of India operations.
  
  

Operations Management

• Day-to-day operations oversight ranging from sales (both staffing and services), marketing campaigns, infrastructure, and recruitment.
  
  

People Management

• As the leader of the management team, the MD motivates and oversees the executive staff, managers, and wider employee base. Building a workplace culture that is in line with Fasttek Global culture.
  
  

Compliance & Governance

• Managing director must ensure proper compliance with regulations, legal obligations, risk management practices, and good governance principles. This includes accountability, transparency, ethical behavior, data protection, safety policies and all government requirements (eg., Professional Tax, Yearend reporting, etc) .
  
  

External Representation

• As the senior most executive, present FastSwitch’s public face of the organization to our customers. Showcase FastSwitch’s capabilities in forums such as NASSCOM etc to build the overall brand.
  
  

Skills Required

Strategic Thinking

• The ability to analyze the competitive landscape, identify opportunities worth pursuing and respond to external threats with appropriate strategies.
  
  

Commercial Acumen

• A managing director must have strong business instincts and acumen spanning operations, marketing, finance, accounting and be able to evaluate commercial risks rationally. Ability to deal with Indian Government,
  
  

Relationship building

• Excellent capability to build and maintain senior leadership relationships that exist and new ones that would be needed.
  
  

Communication Skills

• Excellent communication skills that inspire employees, provide clarity on vision/goals, influence stakeholders, and project confidence when representing the organization publicly.
  
  

Decision Making

• With an array of complex decisions across functions, managing director must have decisiveness rooted in sound judgment, logic, objectivity and the readiness to take responsibility for outcomes.
  
  

Working with Indian Government requirements

• Ability to work with Indian Government on occasional basis and represent company interests.
  
  

Experience And Education Requirement

• Minimum 5 years in a Senior Leadership role (IT Services Sales/Delivery). Understands the Indian market both from Customer and employee resource perspective, having sold/delivered IT Services
• At least 2 years working with a US parent company.
• 2 years of experience dealing with Indian Government regulations in assistance with Chartered Accountants
• 2 years of experience working with NASSCOM or similar organizations
• Bachelors degree from a reputed University
  
  

Additional Info

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet . We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories . Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra . We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years !

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused .

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest . Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Benefits

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
  
  

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Workplaces in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 , 2022 and 2023!

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