Manager - Supply Acquisition & Growth

About the company: Hafla.com is a one-stop shop to discover, book, and pay for everything needed for an event. The three-way marketplace brings together event hosts, planners, and providers (venues, equipment rental companies, caterers, decorators, artists) to transact in an eCommerce-like, easy & fast, experience.

About the role: We are looking for rockstars who can join our supply & growth team to acquire relevant suppliers and drive growth for Equipment & Decor Verticals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyzing data or insights to guide Vertical Growth
• Engage with potential suppliers for partnership, qualify and sign-up
• Liaise with the content team and take end to end ownership of listing products of signed-up suppliers onto the website
• Foster trust relationships with suppliers to achieve better pricing and quality of services
• Coordinating with the internal team members and suppliers to ensure fulfillment & quality of upcoming events
• Devising long-term development strategies for product categories

Skill set required:

• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Strong communication & negotiation skills to convince and unlock value
• Analytical, good command over G-Sheets for data analytics and forecasting.
• High degree of ownership towards work with great zeal and enthusiasm to build something new
• Hands on experience with analyzing big data and making forecasts. SQL & Tableau skills would be a plus
• Ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor in any field, MBA will be a bonus
• Mandatory Experience : 2+ Years of work experience in Supply Acquisition/ Category Management.
• Proven hustler in fast moving start-up / consumer tech is preferred
• Events experience would be a plus

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Application Question(s):

• Do you have experience in the events industry?
• Do you have experience in SQL/Tableau?
• Do you have mastery over advanced MS Excel?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Supply Acquisition/Relationship Management: 2 years (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)
• Hindi/Urdu (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• UAE Driving License (Preferred)