Vehicles Category Manager

Company Description

Carousell Group is the leading multi-category platform for secondhand in Greater Southeast Asia on a mission to make secondhand the first choice. Founded in August 2012 in Singapore, the Group has a leading presence in seven markets under the brands Carousell, Carousell Media Group, Cho Tot, Laku6, LuxLexicon, Mudah.my, OneShift, REFASH and Revo Financial, serving tens of millions of monthly active users. Carousell is backed by leading investors including Telenor Group, Rakuten Ventures, Naver, STIC Investments, 500 Global and Peak XV Partners (formerly known as Sequoia Capital India).

As a team of passionate individuals working together to solve meaningful problems, there is so much more for you to discover in a career with Carousell. Our culture is made up of hiring, developing, and promoting people who embody our values of HEART, which is an acronym for Humility, Empathy, Accountability, Relentlessly resourceful and Teamwork. Together as an organisation, we make magic happen.

About Cho Tot

Established in 2012, Chotot.com is the first re-commerce platform in Vietnam pioneering classified 4.0 with more than 1 billion page views every month. On average, 9 out of 10 Vietnamese people are aware of Cho Tot when asking about selling and buying in any category. With the motto “Muốn Là Có” (“A Way to Your Wants”), we leverage technology to build a simple, efficient, and reliable platform that meets all the wants and needs in all stages of your life. There are more than 60 categories on Chotot.com, meaning whether you are looking for a house, a car, a job, a pet, or a piece of vegetable, you can find them on our site. Whether you are passing things you once loved or giving them to people in need, we are here to assist.

At Cho Tot, you will be part of our young and dynamic team in a fast-moving and fun-loving environment. You will receive opportunities to reach all the potentials you can think of in your career ladder. Cho Tot provides a competitive salary and full benefits. More importantly, we are a family within the company to support each other to learn, grow and immerse in new experiences every day. Every member of our family will be there with you on your path of passion to deliver the best online classified site to serve Vietnamese people. Being part of a bigger global organization, at Cho Tot you will also be given opportunities to collaborate with global distributed teams across the world to tackle and provide solutions for some of the most challenging problems in the emerging internet business space. Since 2019, Cho Tot is part of Carousell.

Job Description

Vehicles Category/Vertical aka Chợ Tốt Xe (CTX) is the second biggest business unit at Cho Tot in terms of revenue. We aim to build a platform that can empower our buyers and sellers to buy and sell vehicles nationwide with confidence and at ease. And moving forward, we are on the way to make CTX as a platform of choice for every vehicle owner in Vietnam.

We invite you to join our Vehicles Business Unit as a Vertical Manager. You will contribute & make an impact through CTX is a specialized business. With the vision to provide the platform for transparent, efficient and effective vehicles transactions in Vietnam. It seeks to be the leading advocate of the right to own, use, and transfer vehicles; and valued by highly skilled automotive professionals and viewed by them as crucial to their success. And to fulfill this dream, we are looking for a competent leader for CTX.

The person is required to manage all aspects of this business vertical, including setting the long-term business strategies; understanding the pain points of all user types (buyers, sellers, dealer…) and/or unlocking the potential markets by optimizing the current features and/or developing brand new features; running the day-to-day operations; supporting Commercial team; and other ad-hoc request from higher levels. You will work closely with the Vertical Head/Diretor and C-suite team to bring CX to the higher levels of which has been defined as a success.

This exciting opportunity calls for driven candidates who not only possess strong entrepreneurial spirit but also desire to build a solid business. An analytical mind coupled with critical-thinking skill and operation ability would definitely be of great benefits to the job.

If you are ready for the challenge of leaving an impactful legacy onto the market leader who is more than eager to re-invent itself, give us a call!

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute comprehensive project plans for new markets, new business initiatives, business integrations, and other process changes, including coordination of resources, stakeholders, and technology platforms

• Responsible for the general management of CTX businesses, including strategies, daily operations and revenues targets.

• Track project performance and analyze the progress of tasks across all participants to accomplish short- and long-term goals.

• Responsible for defining the new products, features and pricing initiatives, and working closely with internal teams (marketing, product, technical, etc) to ensure successful roll-out of these projects.

• Measure impact of initiatives, decide and communicate success or failure, identify key learnings and integrate them in overall user, product & feature understanding

• Recruit and lead the team, carry out an effective leadership style to motivate and become the top performing team.

• Collaborate and maintain professional relationships with other internal teams (monetization, marketing, content and technical) to support the business goals.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience in a highly analytical and operational role in a fast-growth company, preferably in a reputable Technologies / Automotive / Management Consulting company.

• Strong interests and/or understanding of the Automotive industry is a plus.

• Proven leadership ability to influence, develop, and empower employees to achieve their best with a team approach.

• Proven record of being creative, resourceful, detail-oriented, highly organized and of effectively influencing and communicating cross-functionally.

• Analytical skills to understand Usage Data – you can ask the right questions and use tools available to answer at least some of them

• Understanding of User Research role and process – knowing what it can do and what it can’t and being able to facilitate the elements of the process when needed

• Obsession in learning how things work, in problem-solving and troubleshooting. 

• Passion for the industry of consumer internet products.

Additional Information

• Get 15 days of annual leave and 5 days of sick leave per year.

• Health insurance for employee and their family members.

• Get a 13th-month salary and annual performance bonus.

• Participate in regular team-building activities and company parties.

• Full of learning and training opportunities to grow your professional and personal skills.

• Our modern offices serve perfectly for a relaxed, yet productive work environment.

• You will grow with the FRUIT values of Fast Growth, Responsibility, User-first, Integrity, and Team.

Thank you for taking your time to read our job description and thank you in advance if you decide to apply for this position. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 2 weeks since application, otherwise we might meet when another chance arises.

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