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01/08 Subah Jaiwal
HR at Weareholidays

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WeAreHolidays - Manager - Strategic initiatives - IIM/XLRI/ISB (2-5 yrs)

Delhi/NCR/Gurgaon Job Code: 243175

Company profile & Job Description :

WeAreHolidays is one of India's fastest growing travel startups. WeAreHolidays (WAH Holidays Private Limited), a 2011 company, was founded with the vision of creating the largest marketplace offering vacation options for Indians traveling abroad.

Its founding team has extensive experience of working at MakeMyTrip, and includes Engineers (from IIT & other reputed institutes), Management graduates (from IIM & other reputed institutes) and numerous souls who- ve chosen the road less travelled on their entrepreneurial journeys.

It is a venture-funded company with Matrix Partners (Silicon Valley & India based) as the lead investor. Matrix Partners has invested in several market leaders in the consumer technology space including Quikr (online classifieds), Olacabs (cab marketplace), Stayzilla (stays marketplace), LimeRoad (social commerce marketplace), Mswipe (mobile POS), NewsHunt (local language mobile platform) and U2opia (social mobile apps) among others. The company also has Blume ventures as one of its investors. Blume Ventures has investments in some of the leading companies in the Indian internet space. It also has Rajesh Sawhney (Founder GSF accelerator), Sachin Bhatia (Co-Founder, MakeMyTrip.com) & Anupam Mittal (Founder, Shaadi.com) as investors.

Read more about the company here - Culture code at WeAreHolidays Since its launch, WeAreHolidays has been in numerous national publications and media outlets including the Times of India, Mint, The Economic Times, CNBC

Awaaz, Corporate Dossier, Your Story and many others. WeAreHolidays has thousands of customers and is growing at a phenomenal pace in India.

As someone who would be joining the team, you need to be a self-starter and show strong ownership/commitment and have experience in incubating and maturing a business in this fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Above all we- re looking for an - I Will- attitude over a - We Shall- one.

Job description - Manager - Strategic initiatives

WeAreHolidays (WAH) works on a unique marketplace model, where our customers are serviced directly through one of our on-ground partners/agents. New initiative manager would work across payments, fulfillment and marketplace provider network on all new projects.

The individual would work directly with the CEO & core team to deliver on specific initiatives.

The ideal candidate for this profile will be someone :

- With excellent judgment; data-driven decision maker.

- The person has to be extremely adaptive in nature and willing to work in extremely pressure situations

- Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills, with a creative and flexible attitude.

- Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo).

- Is able to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business.

- Thinks big, without losing the details.

- Expects and requires innovation of her/his team.

- Has passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others.

- Is a Graduate/MBA from a tier 1 institute.

- Bonus points for previous start-up experience.

- Strong inter-personal skills, intense curiosity, and a desire and ability to "get things done".

- Able to thrive in a fast paced and dynamic start up environment.

- Hungry for growth with fire in the belly.

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