Category Manager - Insurance - IIM/IIT/ISB/MDI/FMS

Role - Manager - Insurance

Location - Bangalore

Employer - One of the largest Fintech Unicorns

Role Summary:

Being the Category Manager-Insurance is about building a value-centric platform for the business, the partners and the users for specific categories. This would require you to work closely with various cross-functional teams to scale and improve the experience, product features and services that help increase user satisfaction, improve customer experience and grow the category. The Category Manager serves a pivotal role, in building and managing the respective category business. The role demands a deep understanding of market segment and consumer needs/behaviour, and leading strategic and tactical initiatives for the growth of the category

Roles and responsibilities:

- Deep understanding of the markets, trends and consumer behaviour, to contribute to the category strategy

- Overlook end-to-end execution of category growth activities including CRM and marketing campaigns with multiple teams internally/all category-related marketing activities and user communication

- Manage partner relationships by ensuring the stability of the current process and working on building on innovative products in the category

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams - data science, engineering, marketing and analytics to lead category-specific initiatives

- Work with internal teams including operations, product and engineering to optimize key category metrics

- Active monitoring of the commercial performance for the category and strong understanding of the regulatory landscape

The growth path for this resource:

- Learn the processes internally to build a deeper understanding of the category

- Front-ending and managing external partnerships in the long run

- Contribute on ideas for scaling up the category

Skill Set required:

- 4-6 years of experience in a Fintech/tech company

- Background of General Insurance highly preferred

- Must be from Tier 1 MBA or Tier 1 Engineering

- Strong problem solving, quantitative and analytical abilities

- Hustler/willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done is a must

- An entrepreneurial drive to open up new opportunities for growth and strong execution rigour to follow it up

- Prior experience in working with highly skilled cross-functional teams

- Passion for solving problems creatively, starting small, failing fast, and applying your learning