Regional Category Manager - Imports

at  Talabat

Company Description
Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, has been offering convenience and reliability to its customers. talabat’s local roots run deep, offering a real understanding of the needs of the communities we serve in eight countries across the region. We harness innovative technology and knowledge to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurants and local shops, and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities daily. At talabat, we foster an innovative environment where our talabaty employees can strive to create a positive impact across the region through the use of our platform.
Job Description

• NECESSARY SKILL SET:

• Strong understanding of the impact of imported products on Commercial 4Ps (Pricing, Promotion,
  Presentation, Product)
• Strong analytical skills - monitoring of Imports portfolio performance for the whole region (sales,
  profitability, availability, inventories etc.), extracting insights from the data to improve and optimize
  Imports performance across the region (action plan recommendations for local markets including

expertise in recommending categories to penetrate and brands to introduce)

• Easiness to work with the data & various data tools and easiness of presenting data in a

compelling/concise way
- Suppliers management (negotiations, on-boarding, maintaining good relations) - both local (agent

companies) and international (consolidators from various regions)

• Good time management skills in order to push all stakeholders involved to follow agreed timelines
• Meticulous while managing compliance part of the imports process
• Candidate must be well versed in retail (assortment with focus on imported items), experience in working for

a well-known consolidator could be a strong plus (preferably serving MENA clients).

• Responsible for managing the Imports assortment at the regional level + driving the intivite to penetrate

more categories (frozen, chilled, non-food) and new origins.

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