Olacabs - Business Head - Operations

Job Description:

- The job requires a gamut of roles and responsibilities.

- Operations has to ensure smooth running of the machinery of the City, which requires end-to-end ownership of each and every process, function, men and money.

- One of the major responsibilities of this role would be to build and plan the short and long term strategy for the city and take charge of executing it on the ground.

- He would be responsible for the business growth in the city and drive the P&L for an entire product category.

- He has to coordinate with all the support functions like product, sales and marketing to achieve the desired results and targets.

- He has to install ownership and effective coordination across the functions. And act like a bridge between HO/Central team and local teams.

Key Responsibilities:

- Financial Planning and Performance: Own the P&L of the city. Make a growth plan in conjunction with other teams and ensure the targets are met. Creating strategies and Business products as per local demands with respect to supply side of the business.

- Supplier Management and Growth: Ensuring a long term and profitable relationship with all business partners. Manager Key accounts.

- Organization: Hire and manage a high performance team. Ensure their objectives of growth and performance are met.

- Competitive Understanding: Keep a close watch on competitive landscape in your city. Any opportunity in pricing, talent, business model tweaks should be utilized.

- Creating Brand amongst Suppliers: Initiation of partnerships and managing relationships with Suppliers; effectively building a web of our business partners.

- Inventory Planning: Understand demand patterns, forecast, and plan supply accordingly.

Desired Skills / Experience :

- Handled a target driven sales force / Leadership capabilities

- Managed a closely knit community of influencers (eg. Channel Partners / Agents / Drivers / etc.)

- Decision maker. Managed PnL and growth of a vertical / organization.