OlaCabs - Associate Program Manager - IIT/NIT/BITS/IIM/XLRI/FMS/MDI

Job Title : Associate Program Manager

Department / Group : OLA CABS

Location : Kolkata

Position Type : Full time

Reporting to : City Head

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 over 6,00,000 vehicles across cabs, auto-rickshaws and taxis. Ola has also introduced a range of shared mobility services on its platform 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

The job requires a gamut of roles and responsibilities -

- Identifying new marketing opportunities by analyzing data on location demographics, preferences and needs, business potential and competitor's strengths and weaknesses

- Lead the planning and implementation of a project to ensure results are delivered

- Come up with launch plan and onboard right internal and/or external teams for fastest time to market

- Coordinate frequently with stakeholders across different functions - Investors, Management etc.

- Advice on the new business Models, Build marketing strategies, customer Analystics

- Troubleshoot the business issues and data Interpretation and analytics

- Monitor report the progress of the projects

- Supplier Management: Ensure long term and profitable relationships with business partners and supply retention through effective reward and recognition programs.

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

- Building an A-Team: Responsible for hiring and managing a team that will consistently achieve / exceed growth targets.

- Forecasting: Manage and own metrics that objectively monitor the supply side of business. Balance inventory growth with demand to ensure optimization.

- Cross-functional approach: Directly coordinate with all support functions including marketing and analytics.

- Skills required (Technical, soft skills, specific tools, personality traits)

- Aptitude with strong analytical skills(tools - Excel) is essential. Have good reporting skills (MS Office)

- Execution oriented - getting things done on ground. Has a go-getter attitude.

- Obsession to quality.

- Passionate and owns up proactively. Should be a good salesman!

- Managed a closely-knit community of influencers (eg. Channel Partners / Agents / Drivers / unionsetc.)

- Has effectively managed a large team in the past and is objective approach towards goal-setting and monitoring.

Experience & Skills

- An ability to quickly understand and solve new problems

- Negotiation and conflict management

- Strong interpersonal skills

- Excellent data interpretation

- Stress tolerance

- Context-switching

- Need no external push to be motivated

- Proven leadership, supervisory and project management skills

- A tactical and strategic track record for delivering research-driven results

- Ability to motivate and lead a team and manage multiple requirements

- Innovative and people management with an understanding Competitive Analysis.

- Ready to travel across the locations

Qualifications - MBA

- Engineering degree from premier engineering college will be an preferred

- Candidates with prior FMCG/Telecom sales experience in top Retail, FMCG or Telecom companies

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