MagicBricks - Manager - Strategy & Operations

Designation - Manager-Strategy and Operations ( MB prime)

Location - Noida

About Magicbricks:

Magicbricks, a division of Times Internet Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd (The Times Group), is India's largest and most trusted property marketplace for all property-related needs, enabling buyers, sellers and renters through technology. It is India's No 1 property platform that provides a common platform for property buyers, sellers & renters to locate properties of interest across India, and source information about all property related matters. Magicbricks is and has been adjudged as the most preferred site in India, by independent surveys. We are 850+ employees, 11 business verticals with offices across 35 cities and headquartered in Noida.

Job Purpose :

Magicbricks has a vision to shape the future of real estate / Proptech in India. It is looking to incubate and / or scale several new businesses within the Real estate space. On such business is MB Prime, a premium subscription for Real Estate buyers. MB Prime business has grown several times over within a year of launch and we have big growth ambitions for the next two years. This role sits at the heart of developing expansion plan and executing it. The person will be responsible for handling mission critical projects, often cross-functional in nature with high impact on business metrics.

What you will deliver - Key Responsibilities :

- Set strategic direction for MB Prime business: Lead quarterly business planning and breaking it down into sprint plans for all functional areas within MB Prime

- Drive implementation of specific strategic initiatives: Be the real change-agent, lead or support the different functions in implementing the chosen strategies through operational deep-dives, detailed action planning as well as direct responsibility of delivering the targeted metrics

- Launch / incubate new ideas and initiatives: Evaluate specific business opportunities for new business, run pilot projects for proof of concept, take the idea to executive stage - Drive 0 to 1!

- Drive growth of business opportunities to scale: Directly take up any priority business projects that need exceptional rigor and/or specialist support to scale them to meaningful size - Drive x to 10x.

What you should be known for - Key competencies :

- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills - ability to work in a data-driven and hypothesis-based approach, with very good understanding of finding and using external data sources

- Strong understanding of business operations - key performance drivers and how to influence them

- Ability and willingness to dive deep into the operational areas for thorough implementation.

- Ability to manage relationships with people across hierarchies, particularly senior business leaders; demonstrated accomplishment in managing and motivating mid and junior level teams

- Ability to handle multi-tasking environment with a wide range of sensitive and confidential topics

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to present arguments in a compelling manner

- Passion for results, high degree of commitment with bias for execution excellence

- Strong team player, with high self-confidence and dynamism.

Experience: Candidate should have ideally 2-4 years of experience in strategy / operations or related areas for Indian or multinational organizations - either a top-tier management consulting firm or with mid-large Corporates. Understanding of the Indian consumer internet space is an added advantage.