About Us :

Founded in Jan 2011 by IIT Bombay alumni Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati, Ola (formerly Olacabs), is India's most popular mobile app for personal transportation. Ola integrates city transportation for customers and driver partners onto a mobile technology platform ensuring convenient, transparent, and quick service fulfillment. Ola is committed to its mission of building mobility for a billion people. Using the Ola mobile app, users across 110 cities can book from a variety of vehicles across cabs, auto-rickshaws, and taxis. Ola has also introduced a range of shared mobility services on its platforms like Ola Shuttle and Ola Share for commute and ride-sharing respectively. The app is available on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms.

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Build and plan the short and long term strategy for the Region and take charge of executing it on the ground

- Responsible for Supply /Face of the business in the region

- Achieve revenue, profitability & growth by acquiring and managing Partners in the Region

- Managing the supply function in mapping, tracking, meeting, and delivery of accounts and identifying new opportunities for territory with a focus on market penetration

- Market share growth for the Region

- Expansion of new category (supply & topline for the new category)

- Building a high quality & high-performance supply acquisition channel.

- Coordinate with all the support functions like the product, operations, and marketing to achieve the desired results and targets/goals

- Hire and manage a high-performance team. Objectives of growth and performance are met and productive

- Effectively building a web of our business stakeholders (partnerships and managing relationships with Suppliers)

- Lead, Motivate & Manage team. Coach and review them to extract great performance

- Responsible for strategizing and handling day to day operations

- Create supply by creating strategic partnerships

- Manage key customer and vendor relationships

- Work with the sales team and internal operations to identify and bridge supply gaps including vendor identification and on-boarding

- Driving innovation for best in class partner training and quality supply

- Retain Ola as the preferred choice amongst operators and driver partners by ensuring a win-win for every stakeholder. Identify newer and innovative ways to engage partners continuously

Experience & Required Skill Sets :

- Candidate would be an MBA from IIM/ISB/FMS/XLRI with 8-10 years of experience and preferably from FMCG/Telecom background.

- Strong team management skills required - especially to deal with less educated, entrepreneurial driver-partners

- English & Hindi Knowledge must; local vernacular language preferred in regions

- Candidate should demonstrate the ability to work in a fast-paced, hyper-normal growth environment

- Experience in handling high volume transactions & large teams

- Strong analytical skills and orientation to understanding numbers

- Strong Relationship & People Management Skills

- Passion to explore in a chaotic startup environment with a Strong entrepreneurial mindset

- Excellent communication skills, Ability to do multitasking and deal with multi stakeholders.

- Handled a highly target driven sales force / Leadership team

- Managed a closely-knit community of influencers (e.g. Channel Partners / Agents / Drivers / etc.)

- Managed PnL and growth of different verticals/organizations

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