About The Team
Meesho is on a mission to democratize Internet commerce for everyone in India. Our primary responsibility, as the Business org, is to actively drive this mission from the frontlines. As a Senior Business Manager, you will play a huge role in driving growth across all categories. Our team holds end-to-end responsibility to launch and scale up categories, by ensuring the right selection, competitive pricing, and good quality.
Each category team has Senior Business Managers/Business Managers and a group of Assistant Business Managers and Key Account Managers, you'll closely work with the category marketing team, pricing team, quality team, and other category teams. Beyond this, you will also work closely with Product, Supplier Growth, User Growth, and Fulfillment & Experience teams.
We focus on personal growth and fun at work just as much as we do on working hard. That is why, we have regular 1-1s, regular outings, and timely rewards and recognitions.
About The Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Manager to lead & scale category business for Meesho. In this role, you will take ownership of this category and decide everything from deciding the right selection, pricing and growth strategy to shaping the user experience. You will also partner with the Product and Ops teams to build relevant products.
You will work in a fast-paced environment, creating new systems and processes. You will also ensure that we are balancing customer needs, competitive landscapes, and strategic priorities constantly.
What You Will Do
- You have to decide everything from right selection goals and pricing strategy to shaping the user experience.
- You have to decide right team structure to achieve your goals.
- You will also partner with the Product and Ops teams to build relevant products
- You will work in a fast-paced environment, creating new systems and processes.
- You will also ensure that we are balancing customer needs, competitive landscapes and strategic priorities constantly.
- You are expected to understand the market landscape, customer behavior and figure out existing gaps and work with stakeholders across teams and deliver on goals.
- You have to lead collaborations with Product and Tech, Fulfilment, Experience, and User Growth. Own business operational strategy including both financial and operational inputs/outputs, forecasting, monitoring, and reporting.
- You have to present customers with backward view, decision points or data-based arguments that enable delivering on the goal Manage programs to deliver on critical goals in a compressed time frame.
- Decide the roadmap for Meesho's business plans over the next 5 years.
What You Will Need
- Bachelors Degree & preferably Masters degree
- At least 6+ years of experience
- Contextual understanding of e-commerce business
- Ability to drive partnerships, take initiatives, and manage complex projects and teams
- Strong analytical skills and ability to work with a lot of detail
- Demonstrated fast track career growth (promotions and recognitions)
- Entrepreneurial and/or general management /management consulting experience is preferred
- Ability to figure out areas of improvement for different categories and Meesho business as a whole
- Ability to plan and deliver on business-related goals
- Ability to motivate and lead teams - i.e., sourcing supply and managing demand effectively
- Ruthless prioritization skills between immediate, medium, and long-term goals
- Candour and strong communication to align stakeholders on the long-term vision
- Ability to analyze data to identify points of failure or even success areas
- A person who has championed and demonstrated multiple Meesho Mantras in existing or previous roles