Category Operations Manager

Urban Company; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Urban Company, a technology platform delivering home services, invites a Supply Chain Manager to drive operational excellence across cities. You will lead partner onboarding, training, and quality improvements, a core operations role shaping daily outcomes.

You will also steer central growth tracks, work with cross-functional teams, and scale category volumes while maintaining exceptional customer and partner experiences. Entrepreneurial spirit is valued.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years experience in an ops-related/consulting/strategy role.
• Demonstrated leadership of teams and projects – the ability to influence and lead.
• Ability to deliver under tight timelines
• Super energetic, loves challenges and solving them.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational excellence for set of cities; onboarding and training of new partners; improve partner quality.
• Lead central growth tracks for the category and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Execute projects focused on quality, service excellence, and innovation.
• Scale category volumes and revenues while ensuring superior customer and partner experience.

Skills

Leadership

Operations management

Team management

Stakeholder management

Job description

• Urban Company is a technology platform offering customers a variety of services at home.
• Customers use our platform to book services such as beauty treatments, haircuts, massage
• therapy, cleaning, plumbing, carpentry, appliance repair, painting, etc., all delivered in the
• comfort of their home and at a time of their choosing. We promise our customers a
• high-quality, standardized, and reliable service experience. To fulfill this promise, we work
• closely with our hand-picked service partners, enabling them with technology, training,
• products, tools, financing, insurance, and brand, helping them succeed and deliver on this
• Urban Company started as UrbanClap in November 2014, when its founders, Abhiraj, Raghav, and Varun, realized that the home services industry was predominantly unorganized, fragmented, and offline.
• Customers found it challenging to avail quality services conveniently, and service professionals were struggling to make ends meet, having to rely upon several middlemen, contractors, and local aggregators.
• The founders felt that the industry was ripe for disruption, and launched Urban Company, with three key principles in mind -
• 1. Customer love: Build a platform that offers truly delightful and differentiated services
• 2. Partner empowerment: Build a deep, full-stack partnership with service partners, helping improve their earnings and overall livelihood
• 3. Technology first: Bring innovation and technology to an age-old industry

What You’ll Do:

• The most common question asked is, 'What does a typical day in the life of an SCM look like?'
• To answer that in brevity, no two days will be the same for you in this role:
• First focus is operational excellence for your set of cities - this involves selection and training of new partners and improving current partners' quality. This is the crux and main focus of the role. It is an operations-heavy role
• You will also be expected to take charge of key central growth tracks for the category
• Projects focused on improving quality and service excellence
• Projects focused on improving offerings and innovationCollaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure swift and robust execution.
• Scale the category volumes and revenues across your geographies, while ensuring superlative customer and partner experience at scale.
• In addition to maintaining operational excellence for your set of cities on a daily basis, you will also be expected to take charge of key central growth tracks for the category over time:
• Sustainable and profitable growth
• Building customer and partner love at scale
• Leading a team from the front and empowering them to win based on UC's values
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure swift and robust execution.

You are the owner of the business entrusted to you, and you have a direct influence on how the business shapes up. If you're an entrepreneur/intrapreneur at heart, then this is an opportunity for you to grab with both hands

What We Need:

• Minimum 2-4 years experience in an ops-related/consulting/strategy role.
• Demonstrated leadership of teams and projects – the ability to influence and lead.
• Someone who can deliver under tight timelines
• Super energetic, loves challenges and solving them.

What can you expect:

• A great work environment with massive ownership and growth opportunities - we hire folks for a career opportunity, not just the role.
• Energy and hustle of a startup with processes and depth of a big organization
• Expect to work with people you can learn from and are invested in your growth
• Opportunity to be part of the mission to transform customer and partner experience