Cars24.com - General Manager - Core Analytics & Strategy

About CARS24 :

Founded in 2015, CARS24 is a tech-enabled used cars disruptor. It is India's largest platform for buying and selling used cars with presence across 100+ major cities in India. CARS24 is transforming the way India buys and sells cars. Unlike conventional buying & selling methods such as classifieds, our unique business model offers you the best price in the fastest possible time with expert assistance from start to finish. Using advanced Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence based auctions, we enable our channel partners across the country to participate in auctions for each car, ensuring the best deals for our customers

Role & Responsibilities :

- As a General Manager, you will be required to Scope, Manage and Own the analytical workplan by interpreting business needs

- Define the analytical roadmap of the attached business vertical and identify areas to proactively solve business problems

- Align with Stakeholders to agree on the requirements and expected output by defining the business objective to be achieved

- Create and oversee the production of technical project plans

- Ensure quality and timeliness of the team's deliverables

- Mentor the team by providing technical support and motivate them to promote professional growth

- As a Core Analytics team member, you would be responsible for researching, formulating and implementing innovative analytics solutions and accelerators, which would help functional heads and senior management in developing business-building strategies on a regular basis

- Typical business problems that you would be working on are Retail and Sales team performance maximization, improving customer conversion, exploring avenues to increase revenue & margins, improving customer satisfaction rating, improving marketing ROI, optimizing marketing campaigns etc.

- Work involves doing analysis on different stages of the business, performing RCAs and sharing actionable recommendations

- Work with the Business and Product Teams to define A/B test for different features and evaluate them to share final recommendation with the senior stakeholders

- Forecasting monthly targets for Retail and Sales teams, buyer & seller campaign optimization across different geographies like India, Australia, UAE, and Southeast Asia and building Market Mix Models

- Give data visibility to the business in a consumable form by presenting through visualization tools (preferably Tableau)

Must-Have Skills :

- Expertise and hands-on experience with SQL and MS Excel

- Good working knowledge of quantitative & statistical techniques

- Experienced in leading a team and managing its performance

- Experienced in managing Stakeholder and aligning expectations

- Ability to take end to end ownership: understanding the business expectation, deciding the approach and doing exploratory data analysis

- Generate Actionable Insights & Recommendations and drive adoption with the business

- Working knowledge of at least some of the Data Science techniques and algorithms

- Should be self-motivated to try new ideas & quickly iterate to reach the desired outcome

Good-to-have Skills :

- Working knowledge of Google Analytics and visualization tools such as Tableau will be an added advantage

- Prior experience of working with and managing very senior stakeholders will be an added advantage