Marketplace Manager jobs in United Arab Emirates

Founded by Michael Lahyani in 2005 as a magazine (Al Bab World), Property Finder today is a single technology platform and brand across multiple countries in the MENA region. We offer the most advanced tools and best-in-class user experience for homeseekers, real estate brokers, and developers. Property Finder's most recent valuation secures our status among the Middle East's emerging unicorns, affirming a growth-oriented identity.

Over the years, we've expanded our operations to Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and secured a strategic shareholding in Hepsiemlak, the leading property portal in Turkey. With over 600+ dedicated people in 6 regional offices, we facilitate more than 14 million monthly visits across our platforms, solidifying our position as a regional powerhouse in the proptech space.

As the pioneering portal for homeseekers in the region, we are on a mission to motivate and inspire people to live the life they deserve.

Role Summary:

This role carries the overall accountability of the health and improvement of Property Finder’s business performance across all critical marketplace KPIs. In addition, it comes with the accountability of driving impact by determining, designing and implementing cross-functional initiatives that will help improve business performance where & when needed, in-line with Property Finder’s strategic goals, given the hyper growth we are targeting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee end-to-end Business Performance as measured by critical marketplace KPIs, and provide strategic inputs & recommendations to drive impact through transparent and well-understood business performance
• Establish and monitor appropriate key product, commercial and operational KPIs with particular focus on business performance
• Continuously evaluate the health of these KPIs and take corrective actions where/when needed
• Establish a state-of-the art “Business health alert mechanisms” that highlight challenges or strong performance in critical KPIs for us to separate signal from the noise and take action where we need to.
• Drive impact through the power of critical “X”BR forums, by establishing a common narrative and transparency and accountability for leadership of the organization
• Strategically design and run WBR and MBR where you tell an end-to-end story to the leaders of the organization (C-Suite and Director+), as to how Property Finder performed, establishing a common understanding (i.e., “Own the narrative”)
• Drive complex and detailed analyses in order to identify reasons when business performance is having extraordinary trends
• Present these findings periodically to leaders of the organization, and recommend small/large initiatives to improve performance
• Be the expert in “transaction data” in our markets, and guide the organization on the implications of recent trends, and develop a perspective on the future market trends to help guide our strategic thinking
• Most importantly: Determine, design and implement cross-functional initiatives stemming out of business performance improvement opportunities

Desired Qualifications:

• 12+ years of work experience - Experience in a top tier global management consulting company at least with a manager+ tenure is a must (i.e., Engagement Manager, Project Leader, Manager). Ideal candidate will also have an experience in a leading global tech company in a similar function
• Exposure to any of the following in a marketplace environment is a big plus: Business Health, Marketplace Dynamics (i.e., supply/demand dynamics), Business Analytics, FP&A in a reputable tech company or a top tier management consulting company
• Ability to establish itself through trust, credibility and gravitas, among the peers (leadership of the organization, that is Director and VP cohort) to be able to challenge where needed and partner where needed, to help drive growth
• We cannot emphasize enough the importance of the following: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with experience in presenting a lot of data through insights to audiences. Ideal candidate would have an obsession with “So what”, and experience in putting together presentations for senior audiences with a compelling storyline
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem solving skills
• Understanding of basic statistics (distributions, means, std deviations etc)
• Having an eye on detail, immediately picking up issues on trends, knowing where to look at and what to search for
• Proven record of high performance and achievements in education life and career
• Proven track record of understanding of an end-to-end analytics
• Fluency in English

Other Capabilities:

• Ability to build trust
• Ability to interpret context and draw business linkages