Associate Category Manager

About the Opportunity

Role: Associate Category Manager

Level: Assistant Manager

Reporting To: Lead Category Manager

Location: Gurgaon

About The Function

With a deep understanding of Indian consumers travel preferences, the Holidays team offers a vast range of holiday packages for destinations across the world.

MMT Holidays is a leading name in the leisure travel space, serving over 3 lakh passengers annually. Our offerings span both domestic and international markets, catering to travellers across more than 50 destinations. With a strong focus on delivering exceptional travel experiences, we are a trusted choice for holiday packages.

Within this larger ecosystem, Tours & Attractions is a new line of business. The key goal of this vertical is to provide Domestic & Outbound Experiences & Attractions to Indian travelers. The Tours & Attractions function plays a critical role in enhancing holiday experiences by curating high quality on-ground offerings, including attraction tickets, guided tours, and activities worldwide. Catering to diverse traveller needs from curated sightseeing to flexible, build-your-own experiences the team combines destination expertise, strong supplier partnerships, and commercial insight to stay ahead in an evolving market.

About The Role

As an Associate Category Manager – T&A, you will play a pivotal role in driving growth and innovation within this category. The role demands a strong strategic mindset, backed by deep market insights and competitive benchmarking, to shape category performance and business direction.

You will lead high-impact initiatives, working cross-functionally with product, marketing, supply, and operations teams to ensure seamless execution and strategic alignment. A key responsibility will be to build performance dashboards that surface actionable insights, support data-driven decisions, and unlock new growth opportunities.

In addition, you will be instrumental in enhancing the overall customer experience by identifying friction points and collaborating on solutions. The role also involves supporting leadership with data-backed recommendations to steer the business forward.

What will you be doing

• Developing and driving annual growth roadmaps by leveraging insights from traveler segments, market trends, competitive landscapes, customer value analysis, funnel performance, and experimental pilots.
• Leading strategic, high-impact projects from ideation to execution, including building robust business plans and implementing phased rollouts aligned with the company's vision.
• Delivering actionable insights and enabling cross-functional execution across supply, sales, marketing, product, and post-sales teams.
• Designing, building, and refining performance dashboards and business intelligence tools to track progress against the annual operating plan.
• Collaborating closely with Marketing, Sales, Revenue, and Product teams to accelerate growth and drive business outcomes.
• Identifying and capitalizing on new growth opportunities through industry benchmarking and innovative strategies across related sectors.
• Owning and optimizing the end-to-end customer journey to ensure an aspiration-led, seamless travel experience and differentiated market positioning.
• Partnering with senior leadership to shape strategic priorities, support high-impact decision-making, and provide data-driven recommendations.

Qualification & Experience

• A master's degree from a reputed institute, along with 2 to 4 years of experience in managing a category within internet, e-commerce, travel organizations, or in a similar role.

Key Success Factors For The Role

• Strong collaboration skills with a proven track record of working effectively across Product, Tech, Supply, Marketing, and Sales functions.
• Sharp analytical thinking with a passion for data-driven problem solving and structured decision-making.
• Ability to think strategically while maintaining a strong execution focus to drive measurable business outcomes.
• Experience in scaling category portfolios and leading innovation-led growth initiatives.
• Ownership of end-to-end product journeys with a focus on cohort-specific experiences and customer-centric design.
• Agility to thrive in ambiguous environments, with a test-and-learn mindset and an iterative approach to driving performance improvements.