OLX - City Head - P&L - Cash My Car

City Head, OLX Cashmycar, Kolkata - India :

We are looking for a City Head for procurement business od used car dealers. You would be leading a team of over 50 people that would be managing end to end operations of an intermediary role - purchase of used cars from retail customers and sale of the same to used car dealers via different business channels. You will be responsible to hire, train and manage the performance of the buy side and sell side teams along with the alternate trade channels of franchise operations and company-owned, company-operated showrooms. This role is a middle management role from an organizational perspective and the senior-most role at a market level responsible for overall territory/business development and P&L responsibility for the market.

What you will be doing:

- You will be required to monitor and work closely with a team of channel leads, inspection engineers, telecallers, team leaders, relationship managers, and procurement executives.

- The role would need you to think strategically and work operationally at the same time.

- Working with the analytics team on a wide range of data points and drawing logical inferences to be factored in the business decision making would make the role successful.

- The role comes with high responsibility and high risk/reward quotient and needs a very high sense of agility, adaptability and - getting things done- approach.

- The desire to work in a young, creative, changing and data have driven environment with a high-performance team in a fast-moving sector is essential.

Who we are looking for :

- 7-12 years of managerial experience in sales and marketing roles with a proven track record of scaling up business operations.

- Prior experience of managing multi-layered sales teams is a must

- Ability to start operations from scratch and effectively lead a sales team to deliver growth and achieve targets with stringent timelines

- Hands-on leader with the desire to get hands dirty with day to day operations in a bid to scale up the overall business

- Ownership of complete business unit in terms of P&L shall be required

- Ability to adapt quickly to fast changing business requirements and unpredictability

- Stakeholder management - art of getting work done from multiple support functions

- Knowledge of used car business is an added advantage but not mandatory

What we'll give you :

- Contributing to the global OLX Group success

- International career and growth opportunities

- Work with an international team of top engineers learning from one another

- Opportunity to pursue you further academic goals

- Competitive salary and great benefits

What you need to know about us:

- OLX Cashmycar aims to tranform how the used cars are traded in India. With our worldwide expertise we are today growing in India with centres in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Pune enabling car owners to easily sell their cars through our secure and hassle-free process.

- OLX Cashmycar is part of the OLX Group, a global product and tech company with +20 brands, +5000 people and one mindset.

- Our mission is to help people upgrade their lives. We make it super easy for people to buy and sell almost anything, boosting local economies.

- Every month 350 million people use our market-leading trading platforms. We- re going for a billion. We estimate that 17 million things are exchanged on our apps and platforms every single month.

- We are proud to be different, and we work differently too. We combine the spirit and agility of a start-up with the maturity that comes from being part of a 100 year-old company.

- We bring together teams to collaborate in an inclusive environment where all voices are heard.

- We are curious, ambitious and allergic to corporate interference. We improvise, experiment and push each other further, embracing uncertainty and driving change.

- We are part of Naspers, a global internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Around a fifth of the world's population improve their daily lives using the products and services of companies that Naspers operates and invests in.

If you are as excited as us about this position and our company, we hope you join us! If you would like to learn more about the OLX Group, take a look at the other parts of our website and remember, we are an equal opportunities employer.