🚀 Category Manager | Urban Company Hiring
🏢 Company: Urban Company
Business Operations & Analytics Hiring
📄 Job Description
Urban Company is hiring Category Managers in Gurugram for a high-impact business operations role focused on analytics, category growth, and operational excellence. This role is ideal for professionals who enjoy solving business problems using data, working with cross-functional teams, and driving execution at scale. You will work closely with Operations, Product, Marketing, and Business teams to improve performance, identify growth opportunities, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
🛠 Key Responsibilities
- Leverage data to identify business opportunities and drive category growth
- Analyze large datasets to uncover trends, performance gaps, and actionable insights
- Build dashboards and monitor key business and operational metrics
- Automate reporting processes using Excel and SQL
- Partner with Operations, Product, Marketing, and Business teams on cross-functional initiatives
- Drive process improvements through root cause analysis and data-backed recommendations
- Own end-to-end execution of strategic and operational projects
- Support decision-making through business reporting, analysis, and performance tracking
- Improve operational efficiency and category performance through structured problem-solving
- Work in a fast-paced environment with a strong focus on business impact and execution excellence
🎓 Eligibility Criteria
- 1–3 years of experience in Business Operations, Strategy & Operations, Category Management, Analytics, Supply Operations, Consulting, or similar roles
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience handling large datasets
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is mandatory
- Working knowledge of SQL for data extraction and analysis is highly preferred
- Experience building dashboards using Power BI or Tableau will be an added advantage
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, ownership-driven environment
- Execution-focused mindset with a strong bias for action
⭐ Key Skills
- Business Operations
- Category Management
- Data Analysis
- Microsoft Excel
- SQL
- Dashboarding
- Power BI / Tableau
- Root Cause Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- Process Improvement
💰 Benefits
- Opportunity to work with one of India’s leading consumer service platforms
- Exposure to strategic business operations and category growth projects
- Hands-on role in analytics, dashboarding, and operational excellence
- Cross-functional exposure across Product, Operations, and Marketing teams
- Strong learning and career growth opportunities in high-impact business roles
⭐ Why Join Urban Company?
- Work on high-impact business problems using data and analytics
- Drive category growth and operational excellence at scale
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment
- Build strong expertise in strategy, analytics, and execution
- Accelerate your career in business operations and category management
🧠 Core Skills Required
- Business Analytics: Ability to analyze large datasets and generate actionable business insights.
- Excel Expertise: Strong hands-on knowledge of advanced Excel functions, reporting, and analysis.
- SQL Knowledge: Ability to extract, query, and analyze business data for decision-making.
- Dashboarding: Experience creating dashboards and tracking business metrics using BI tools.
- Problem Solving: Strong root cause analysis and structured problem-solving ability.
- Stakeholder Management: Effective collaboration with Product, Marketing, Operations, and Business teams.
- Execution Excellence: Strong ownership in driving end-to-end operational and strategic projects.
- Process Improvement: Capability to optimize workflows and improve business performance through data-backed decisions.
🎤 How to Prepare for the Interview
- Revise advanced Excel concepts such as Pivot Tables, Lookup functions, IF formulas, dashboards, and data cleaning.
- Prepare SQL basics including SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY, CASE WHEN, and filtering queries.
- Be ready to discuss projects where you solved business problems using data analysis.
- Prepare examples of process improvements, operational impact, or category growth initiatives you have driven.
- Review root cause analysis frameworks and structured problem-solving approaches.
- If you have used Power BI or Tableau, prepare to explain dashboards or reports you built.
- Highlight ownership, execution ability, and stakeholder management experience during the interview.
📩 How to Apply
Interested candidates can apply through the official application form below.