Justdial - General Manager/Assistant Vice President - Strategy & Operations - IIM/ISB/MDI/FMS

GM/AVP - Strategy & Operations

About Just Dial:

Justdial Ltd is India's No.1 Local Search Engine Company. Its offices are present in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Jaipur, and Chandigarh. The company has an employee strength of approximately 11,000 employees. The company offers its services all over India and US/ UK/ Canada/ UAE and has its presence on Phone, Web, WAP, SMS, and Mobile.

For more information about the company, you can visit the 'About Us' page of our website www.justdial.com

What do we offer you? :

- The opportunity to grow and work with some of the best Strategy, Tech, Business, and Product names in the industry

- Provide you insights into all aspects of building a high-growth & and ever-evolving successful digital company

- A highly-challenging environment with diversified tasks and direct ownership

- A position with significant and high-growth opportunities

- Opportunity to scale a massive platform that could yield professional satisfaction

- A pan-India, dynamic, and highly-motivated team experience

- Leading a sizeable team while scaling growth at Just Dial

- Competitive compensation package

As the GM/AVP, Strategy & Ops, you are expected to leverage your strategic thinking, analytical, and project management skills to help teams prioritise and drive key initiatives forward as per the defined business strategy at Just Dial. The role is highly visible across the company and to the senior leadership of JD. This role is based out of Mumbai.

- End-to-end development planning/program management in line with the development objectives; periodic review of development progress vs plan, review, and coordination

- Innovation in development to support improvements in quality and time

- Budget setting and Cost-to-complete review

- Leading the project execution on various fronts like merchant alliance, UGC, market research, vendor management, product catalogue, service catalogue & portfolio, onboarding, lead generation, and others

- Presenting data-driven, insightful, and compelling recommendations on high-priority strategic and operational initiatives

- Co-ordination with consumer-focused functions like tech, business, and content and corporate functions like legal, finance, HR, etc. wherever required

- Understand and study user's requirement and lead teams to source/curate content to showcase on our website/mobile site/app as per our user's expectation

- Increase user's time spent on our platform by providing them high quality content across different categories

- Understand marketing and product inputs for products and align operations accordingly

- Ensuring liveability readiness which includes working with various functions on resolving open issues etc.

- Regular monitoring of all Strategy and Operations functions including competition analysis

- Shortlist, recruit, and lead senior-level management based on the project requirements

- Regular knowledge transfer sessions and training to update the team and learn from everyone in the group

- Measure and track all key performance indicators and present these to management & the board of directors as and when necessary

Who do we want? :

- 10-14 years of experience

- Preferably MBA graduate from one of the top B-Schools or/and from premier institutes with an interest in eCommerce/ Internet/ Product/ Technology

- Experience in conducting and presenting quantitative & qualitative analyses and insights with simplicity, clarity, and confidence to various stakeholders including executive management

- A deep understanding of the strategy and business including its place within the market, the solutions it provides to existing problems, and the complete development process it requires

- Thrives in a high-speed product, strategic, and execution environments, able to make quick Plan B without impacting desired outcomes

- Should be able to keep the bigger picture in mind while effectively managing the details for smooth functioning of the processes

- A highly flexible and adaptable character that embraces challenges and does not work as per the clock

- Exceptional project management and stakeholder management skills

- Exceptional proficiency in data analysis and modeling (SQL proficiency a plus)

- An entrepreneurial, "roll up your sleeves" attitude and willingness to perform tasks with a range of difficulties from routine tasks to preparing analysis for senior management

- Should be highly result-oriented, and possess a data-driven approach

- Ability to gel well with cross-functional teams

- Ability to work in a dynamic environment and is a self-starter taking multiple initiatives for business prosperity

- Must have excellent problem-solving and people skills

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Location: Mumbai

Starting date: ASAP