Senior Category Manager

Category Manager I Product Business | Urban Company

About the Company

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

promise.

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

About the Role & Team

● Category Manager is responsible for driving on-ground operations. This

would primarily involve identifying vendors and improving the quality of the

inventory planning processes.

● This includes end-to-end ownership of the initiative, including problem

solving, analysis, process improvement, execution

● Support Business Heads in BAU category management activities related to

supply/demand planning, revenue planning

What you’ll do:

● Optimizing inventory planning for a B2B business by developing scalable and

data-driven models

● Identify key vendors and strategies to reduce the days of inventory for our B2B

business to ensure a negative working capital for the business

● Collaborating with central business teams and working closely with product and

data science teams to automate inventory planning processes

The ultimate goal is to ensure 100% timeliness and completeness of kits while keeping a

healthy day of inventory by leveraging scientific methodologies and automation to

streamline operations.

What we need:

● Sharp and hungry professionals willing to go above and beyond to create impact

● 6 months - 2 years of work experience

● Proficient in advanced Excel/ SQL/Tableau/Power BI

● Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, requires solving ambiguous problems,

and is highly outcome-oriented. We will look for candidates who display these

characteristics and have demonstrated the ability to solve problems on the ground.

● Hustle and get things done attitude

What can you expect:

● A great work environment with massive ownership and growth opportunities.

● Work closely with strong leaders who are amongst the best in the country when it

comes to operational excellence and consumer obsession

● A lot of freedom and ownership to propose and change the way we do things. We still

believe it is Day 0 and are hungry to improve and change

● Growth opportunities within UC via our robust internal mobility program

At Urban Company, we are committed to providing equal and fair opportunities in

employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We endeavor to maintain a work

environment free from harassment based on age, color, physical ability, marital status,

parental status, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity.