AVP - Marketplace/Business Head - Domestic Holiday Business - IIM/XLRI/FMS/MDI

Role Description: Domestic (India) Holiday Business Head (AVP - Market Place)

Location: Gurugram

Looking for someone who is up for the challenge to crack the tough nut of Indian domestic holiday market. The job requires naturally high customer service orientation, ability to solve large & tough business problems and lead the design of technology based solutions.

You can expect to spend a lot of time working on ambiguous problem statements and navigating these through logical decision making, analytical thinking and data backed approach

While being a part of senior management team you get to work with some of the brightest set of peers and work on the cutting edge business problem of - solving the India wide holiday market. 

Key Responsibilities:

Own end to end category strategy of domestic holiday business in company

- Complete P&L ownership of domestic (India) marketplace business

- Drive growth & profitability of category, evaluate various business models & accordingly design holiday supply & demand side strategies.

- Create and implement customer experience strategies (both traveler & vendor side)

- Create leadership position of Company in domestic(India) holiday market

- Develop proper planning & execution engine

- Understand the domestic holiday market and traveler landscape and imbibe deeper understanding of trends in the outbound travel space that can shape / define future of the domestic portfolio

- Developing deep domestic traveler understanding and trends and accordingly leading the evolution/innovation of travel product

- Drive destination strategy and its execution. Craft a unified strategy across destinations that helps achieves company goals in short and long term

- Own the Category Management metrics for each destination and craft improvement plans to impact key metrics for each quarter.

- Develop team to evaluate & launch new innovative categories in domestic category- religious, wildlife, adventure etc

- Focus on team grooming and successfully managing 100+ members. Create next generation leaders who can take ahead the domestic business as it grows 10x-20x

Desired Skills:

- Earlier P&L handling experience

- Strong Problem Solving

- Proven execution capability

- Team Management Experience

- Preferable if some experience in sales, operations or vendor management

Education & Experience:

- Tier MBA School + 2-3 years of Tier 1 consulting experience + 2-4 years of business experience. Start-up experience and exposure to team management a bonus. OR

- Tier 1 Graduate School with 5-7 years of experience. 2-3 years of consulting experience preferred. Start-up experience and exposure to team management a bonus. OR

- Tier 1 Schools and 4-7 years Startup business experience. Exposure to team management preferred