General Manager Russia

Description

Company Description

BlaBlaCar was created in 2006 with one dream in mind: fill the millions of empty seats on the road to create an efficient, affordable and friendly way to travel. Today, our global, trusted community counts 87 million members in 22 countries, enabling a smarter, large scale and truly sustainable transport network. 

Born from a simple idea of people sharing their rides, BlaBlaCar’s ambition is to become the go-to marketplace for shared road mobility. We offer a long-distance carpooling service, a commuting carpooling service, and a long-distance bus service. A filled bus emits one third of the emissions per passenger kilometer as an average car -- so we want to fill those seats too! 

In 2019, 100 million travelers used BlaBlaCar globally, saving 1.6 million tons of CO2. Meanwhile, we enabled human connections, bringing people closer together in more ways than one, with 87% of members believing  carpooling to be an enriching experience. 

BlaBlaCar offers a unique international environment with a team counting 40 nationalities, serving a global member-base from 8 offices in Berlin, Kiev, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris (HQ), São Paulo and Warsaw. English is the official spoken language across BlaBlaCar. We are privately-held and founder-led. Our team of 700 employees is entrepreneurial, passionate and fundamentally mission-driven.

Job Description

Why join us?

We launched our carpooling activity in Russia in 2014 that today accounts for more than 25M members. In 2018, we introduced a new bus offer to our platform, which we are extending thanks to the acquisition of BusFor, Russia largest online marketplace for bus travel. Following this important acquisition, we’re strengthening our management team to reach a new phase of growth and ultimately become the road transport leader in the country.

In this role, you will be the ambassador of our business in Russia. You will lead both the growing bus service and the carpooling business, with the ambition to shift consumers mindset to online booking and to build the multimodal platform of choice for Russia travelers.  

What you will directly contribute to:

• P&L owner of the entire Russian business
• Build and grow both carpooling and bus businesses from the ground up
• Define the local strategy (forecast definition, sales & marketing, offline distribution, promotions, bus supply etc.) and execute on it
• Lead PR and be the face of the company in Russia
• Lead the supply and operations team to source, negotiate and maintain relationship with bus partners
• Lead the local marketing team to create the most effective online and offline marketing campaigns in collaboration with BlaBlaCar central team
• This role reports directly to the VP CEE and Latam

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

• Strong professional with +10y  experience 
• Proven track record of building and growing a business from the ground up
• Ability to motivate and lead people, and hold employees accountable 
• Extensive experience in B2C marketplaces
• Strong operational excellence and analytical skills
• Strong entrepreneurial mindset and hands-on 
• Ability to represent the company publically 
• Russian native speaker
• Must be fluent in English

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