Assistant Category Manager

About the Position

Assistant Category Manager

Location: Salmiya, Kuwait

Talabat, part of the Delivery Hero Group, is the world’s pioneering local delivery platform. Our mission is to deliver an amazing experience-fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.

We’re looking for an Assistant Category Manager to join our team and focus on growing our own Grocery Store “tMart”, which is the region’s first cloud store concept offering 30-minute delivery of groceries at hypermarket prices. The service has expanded rapidly across Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman, and Iraq!

Responsibilities

• Full Ownership over the category management role in terms of Assortments, Pricing, Offers, and Supply.
• Ensuring proper implementation of the commercial strategy and strategic guidelines, including categories plan and pricing strategy.
• Providing input to the Ops team flows, adjacencies, tools and templates, fixtures, etc.
• Reviewing and resolving any issues with local suppliers by regularly visiting the suppliers' warehouse.
• Assortment:
  • Monitoring the daily availability list and ensuring new seasonal items are regularly listed by the supplier.
  • Ensuring cost efficiency across our consumers that meets their needs/wants.
  • Defining and maintaining the local assortment and integrating the basic assortment for the department/categories.
  • Providing regional teams with information regarding products and quantities needed for international and regional contracts.
  • Selecting local suppliers, negotiating, and purchasing in line with expected needs guided by standards such as cost price, discounts, rebates, payment terms, discounts, etc.
  • Regular market visits to check the assortment available in the country and pushing our suppliers to source them for us.
• Price:
  • Pricing the items based on Ministry pricing guidelines on a daily basis.
  • Collecting market prices and conducting country price audits.
• Promos:
  • Identifying local promo products and pricing each item and submitting forecasting/relevant reordering information to replenishment.
  • Developing the country promotion calendar.
  • Following up and ensuring effective execution of all activities required for each promotional event.
  • Analyzing and providing inputs for more effective promotional activities such as consumer preferences, local competitors, and trends.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience in progressive development and management of multiple product categories, matured by working for large retailers (FMCG), in an international setting.
• Experience in building teams and leading cross-functional projects at scale.
• Detail-oriented, structured, and able to prioritize effectively.
• Willingness to do anything necessary for the project to succeed, including working on the warehouse floor when short-staffed or taking customer calls.
• Ability to interact with senior-level executives and manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders.
• Energized by the unknown and eager to learn each day on the job.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, and always hands-on with several tools.
• Robust interpersonal and intercultural skills. Ability to inspire several teams and stakeholders to rally behind a mission.
• Language skills: Fluent in English (mandatory) & Arabic (plus).

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a pioneering local delivery platform.
• Be part of a global team operating in around 65 countries.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.

About the Company

Talabat, part of the Delivery Hero Group, is the world’s pioneering local delivery platform. Our mission is to deliver an amazing experience-fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.