Managing Director, Japan
Tokyo
City Teams – Japan /
On-site
Lalamove is disrupting the logistics industry by connecting customers and drivers directly through our technology. We offer customers a lightning-fast and convenient way to book delivery and moving services whether they are at their home, at work, or on the go. People talk about O2O, we live it. Onto our 10th year now operating across four continents, but our aspirations don’t stop there as our model has the ability to transform how goods are moved in any city worldwide.
Currently, we are looking for a high-caliber individual to join as Managing Director, Japan. 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 Japan.
What you'll 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 the city level
- Business Development: Oversees 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 metricsFinancial 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 that facilitates effective communication between departments
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree from a reputable university.
- More than 8 years of 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, and offer strategies in a proactive approach is essential to the success of this role
- Proven track record in Management skills in Japan
- 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 both English and Japanese is a must
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