Porter - Category Manager (1-5 yrs)

Company Overview:

At Porter, we are passionate about improving productivity. We want to help businesses, large and small, optimize their last-mile operations and empower them to unleash the growth of their core functions. Last mile delivery logistics is one of the biggest and fastest growing sectors of the economy with a market cap upwards of 50 billion USD and a growth rate exceeding 15% CAGR.

Porter is the fastest growing leader in this sector with Pan India presence with operations in multiple cities, a fleet size exceeding 750k registered and a customer base with 15M being monthly active. Our industry-best technology platform has raised over 150 million USD from investors including Sequoia Capital, Kae Capital, Mahindra group, LGT Aspada,Tiger Global and Vitruvian Partners.

We are addressing a massive problem and going after a huge market. We're trying to create a household name in transportation and our ambition is to disrupt all facets of last mile logistics including warehousing and LTL transportation. At Porter, we're here to do the best work of our lives.

If you want to do the same and love the challenges and opportunities of a fast paced work environment, then we believe Porter is the right place for you.

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Supply & Demand planning.

- Formulating and executing strategies to ensure the targeted demand growth.

- Responsibility of handling the category team.

- Gather market and competitive intelligence from various sources and create actionable insights.

- Improve customer wallet share through cross-selling and other strategies

- Guide the team to achieve the organizational goals

- Manage team and ensure target delivery through the team.

- Ensure Customer and partner experience is intact for the category.

- Enhance the team skills toward the growth path in the organization.

- Use data to analyze & identify the process gaps for the improvement of the business numbers.

- Ensure smooth flow with the team and gather real-time feedback regarding the business impacts.

Skill :

- Ability to train, coach and support the team members

- Good team management skills

- Fluency in Tamil & English is mandatory

- Good Communication & Interpersonal Skills

- Should be extremely good in making reports, interpreting them and driving insights out of the same

- High ownership and responsiveness at all times

- Highly efficient in excel skills

- Basic knowledge of SQL

- Strong numerical and analytical skill