Meesho - Senior Business Manager - Hardline (6-12 yrs)

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.