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Elance is looking for a Category Manager to join its talent marketing group to help shape the site's online work categories for our target markets and communities.
The Category Manager is responsible for analyzing data sources and key industry trends to maintain and enhance Elance's professional skill database and will influence our platform's taxonomy, structure and user interaction by developing a framework for assessing each major category and providing daily category and skill-level operations reports.
In addition, the Category Manager will manage projects cross functionally with client and talent-focused teams to respond to supply and demand across categories and skill areas on the site. The ideal candidate is a driven individual with an inherent curiosity and enthusiasm for identifying developments across all online work industries, including technology, design, content, and others. Additionally, the ideal candidate is also deeply interested in understanding metrics while also enthusiastic about rolling up their sleeves and becoming an integral part of the Elance team.
Key Position Accountabilities:
•Expert on the health of Elance's most valuable categories and skills
•Led cross functional teams to improve the fill rate for key categories
•Develop and implement marketing plans that recruit new talent into key categories and ensure they are engaged
•Maintain and enhance Elance's skill taxonomy and overall category structure
•Analyze metrics and industry trends to develop suggestions and amendments to the database of skills
•Be our strategic leader for skills, including how skills are represented, structured and measured across the site
Your Qualifications:
•Extremely analytical with the ability to see patterns in data where others don't and make sound data-driven business recommendations
•Strong leadership abilities with proven success leading cross functional initiatives
•High comfortable working at both strategic and tactical levels
•Fantastic oral and written communications skills
•The ability to keep your finger on the pulse – you're always in the know of what's happening in the Elance marketplace
•A broad understanding of work industries and the ability to adapt to quickly evolving trends
•Demonstrated research skills and ability to quickly get up to speed
•Analytical nature – you embrace the numbers and leverage them to make key decisions.
•Highly detail-oriented, extremely well-organized
•3 – 5 years of work experience in category or product marketing, ideally at a web-based business
•Bachelor's degree required with comprehensive understanding of marketing, technology, and Elance's business model
•Previous experience in a marketplace operations role a huge plus
•Flexible, team player with a sense of humor
About Us
Why do great people and innovative companies come to Elance? They do what they love, work on what´s important, and want to embrace a new way to work that is transforming businesses and careers all over the world. If you want to join a company that is making a difference in people´s lives every day, Elance is for you.
We're always looking for bright and talented people to join us in building the world´s leading human cloud company. We provide an easy, cost-effective online employment platform to match up employers with a qualified and ready workforce that represents some of the best in technical, creative and administrative talent.
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