Category Manager - Holiday Business - Online/Internet - IIM/XLRI/FMS/MDI

Hiring for a growing company, which is on its way of encompassing all the components of holiday ecosystem. The company is a a one-stop shop to discover, plan and book customized holiday. Currently serving 65+ destinations and hosting a network of 650+ expert travel partners, the highly tech-driven product witnesses around 20 lakh visitors every month and operates with a versatile team of 500+ people.

Role: Category Manager

Location: Gurgaon

Key Responsibilities:

- End to end P&L and strategic ownership of your categories in the holiday business

- Ensure growth and profitability of your category

- Develop a comprehensive understanding of your customer market, needs and behavior to ensure that company has a ready strategy to keep driving growth & profitability in the category

- Focus on developing the right expert partner base to provide high degree of value to customers

- Evaluate end to end supply chains and develop strategies to ensure company is able to offer best possible experience to its travelers

- Groom your team continuously to create a superior execution engine

- Ensure all goals of all key category metrics are being consistently met

- Enable 6-12 M strategic planning in your category

- Conceptualize, plan and execute strategic initiatives which enhances customer experience across the customer lifecycle

- Own end-to-end impact delivery of projects - including ideation, problem solving, developing execution plan, implementation and process stabilization

- Partner with relevant stakeholders (Product, Technology, Marketing, Contracting, Finance, Operations etc.) to drive cross-functional initiatives and deliver project outcomes which positively impacts your category

- Regularly analyze external market trends, internal metrics and competitor strategies to generate business insights and enable gap analysis.

- Help your manager in developing an overall strategy for the category cluster (such as international holidays, domestic holidays etc.)

Desired Skills and Experience:

- Awesome Problem Solving - should be able to structure a problem, analyze data to derive insights and generate hypothesis, identify possible solutions, and determine the scope of the project

- Superb communication skills - should be able to facilitate working meetings, ask good questions, listen to the answers (really listen), and absorb what's being said

- Ability to handle and analyses data

- Good Stakeholder management - The ability to coordinate with multiple business stakeholders is also an important part of the job. You will have to break down their business problems into quantifiable metrics and insights that make sense to them

- Good team management skills - ability to manage - crack- teams focused on driving innovation and executing across company.

Education & Experience:

- Tier 1 Graduate school. 3-5 years of Experience in Tier 1 consulting firm. OR

- Tier 1 MBA School with 2-3 years of Experience. Start-up experience a bonus. OR

- Tier 1 MBA School with 1-2 years of Tier 1 Consulting Experience