The Role
The Managing Director will lead operations, manage partnerships, drive business development, and oversee financial control to scale Lalamove as the leading intra-city delivery platform in the UK.
Summary Generated by Built In
Currently, we are looking for a high-caliber individual to join as Managing Director, London. The incumbent will lead the team to scale Lalamove and drive growth to achieve the ultimate goal of making Lalamove the leading intra-city delivery platform in the UK.
What You Will Do:
- Operations Management: deploy and manage driver operations, customer service, sales operations and marketing activities based on Lalamove standards. Implement local and global initiatives and SOPs
- Partnership Management: execution of regional and local partnerships to ensure consistent business user base growth at city level
- Business Development: oversee the business development of the platform. Acquire users and grow the business. Develop and cultivate strategic partnerships with customers and other stakeholders. Work closely with marketing both online and offline, and actively take part in spearheading local strategy
- Operations performance: identify and enforce best practices. Ensure high service standards are maintained across all operational metrics
- Financial control: budget, forecast and align business needs with control of operating expenses
What We Seek:
- Execution driven to implement and maintain strong business operations locally
- Structured mindset to prioritize projects, initiatives, tasks and deployments in order to achieve operational excellence with a high level of efficiency
- Data-driven to drive the local performance with objectivity using data and possess the ability to manage budgets and P&L and costs.
- Integrity and leadership: to make the right decisions for the business, go the extra mile to grow user and driver bases locally and lead and motivate others
- Strong communicator: to be able to articulate ideas clearly and succinctly and use a structured approach with proven ability to create a framework which facilitates effective communication between departments
What You'll Need:
- Minimum Bachelor's Degree from a reputable university.
- More than 8 years management experience in a start-up environment or similar industry (O2O / eCommerce/ logistics)
- Strategic thinker, able to see the big picture and achieve goals by breaking down the process and making suggestions on how to improve the process necessary to drive the agreed strategy
- Must act independently by taking initiative in projects, offer strategies
- Proactive approach is essential to the success of this role
- Proven track-record in Management skills in the UK
- Exceptional communication and negotiation abilities with strong organizational skills and capacity to work under pressure
- Strong alignment to our company's core values of passion, grit, humility and execution
- Fluency in English is a must
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Skills Required
- Minimum Bachelor's Degree from a reputable university
- More than 8 years management experience in a start-up environment or similar industry
- Proven track-record in Management skills in the UK
- Fluency in English
Lalamove Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Lalamove and has not been reviewed or approved by Lalamove.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentive programs such as missions, bonuses, and vehicle‑sticker promotions are highlighted as ways to boost driver earnings, with occasional commission reductions further enhancing take‑home. These extras can make the platform appealing for supplemental income and busy periods.
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Healthcare Strength — Corporate roles in some markets describe access to employer‑provided medical and dental coverage. This indicates a conventional health benefits baseline for office staff.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Office locations reference paid holidays, sick leave, and some work‑from‑home flexibility. This points to standard time‑off provisions for corporate employees in select markets.
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The Company
What We Do
Established in December 2013, Lalamove was created to make on-demand and same-day delivery possible for everyone at the touch of a button. Today, Lalamove operates in over 20 markets across Asia, Latin America, and the United States connecting over 7 million customers with a pool of over 700,000 driver partners. Our driver partners operate a vast array of vehicles to suit each market including lorries, trucks, vans and cars for deliveries of almost anything of any size. Fleets of two-wheel vehicles are also available for courier services providing fast and low-cost delivery solutions. Through dedicated mobile and web apps, Lalamove seamlessly connects users and drivers around the world to move things that matter.
