Assistant Category Manager

Porter; Patna, Kamrup Metropolitan; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Porter is seeking an Assistant 2W Category Manager in Patna. You will oversee P&L for the two-wheeler category, lead a 20+ member team, and drive supply/demand pipeline, retention, and market intelligence. You will execute local marketing initiatives and analyze data to identify business improvements.

The role requires strong problem-solving, communication, and reporting skills, with a focus on delivering service quality for drivers and customers in the city.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or PG in sales and marketing.
• Strong communication and team management skills.
• Experience with supply/demand planning and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Handle P&L for 2W and Scooter category in the city.
• Build and manage a high-performing team (20+ members).
• Drive supply/demand acquisition and retention initiatives.
• Lead marketing and branding activities for the city.
• Gather market intelligence and prepare actionable insights.
• Analyze data and prepare reports to monitor performance.

Skills

Communication & team handling

Supply/Demand planning

Data analysis & problem solving

Reporting (MS Excel/Google Sheets)

Education

Bachelor's Degree or PG in Sales/Marketing

Tools

MS Excel

Google Sheets

Job description

About the Job

We are looking for people to join us on a journey that can improves a million lives on a daily basis. Assistant 2W category manager is primarily responsible for handling P&L for 2W and Scooter category in the city. The role requires good problem solving skills, data analysis and team handling skills.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Supply/ demand acquisition: constantly maintain an over-supplying effort by keeping a healthy pipeline of leads (by whatever channel it takes), by efficiently training and effectively retaining.
• Retention :Will be involved in supply/customer retention activities like calling, partner engagement validation, zonal wise supply fulfillment, customer retention,etc
• Community management: actively moderate (bring people together), leverage, and rule the driver /customer community to shape the best service quality to users and the best worth for drivers.
• Execute Marketing and Branding initiatives for the city as per the BTL plans
• Market intelligence: Gather market and competitive intelligence from various sources and create actionable insights
• Analyze data and prepare reports to monitor performances, find business problems and come up with solutions.
• Process improvement: Identify, build and enforce Standard Operating Procedures and Policies to support the activity and solve prevalent issues.
• Talent acquisition and management: Build a team that strives to win and constantly track the efficiency of your team and the service quality provided to the network, and deploy corrective/improvement. Will be leading a team of 20+ high performing individuals.

Educational qualifications preferred

• Institution tier: Bachelors Degree or Post Graduate in sales and Marketing

Required Competencies:

• Communication & team handling skills
• Supply/Demand planning
• Data analysis & problem solving
• Should be good in making reports (MS-Excel/google sheets,etc)