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Fresh Food Category Manager at Delivery Hero
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Job Descrption
As the region’s leading local tech organization, we’re proud to say that we have been delivering for millions of people right across MENA for the past 18 years.
We were founded in Kuwait in 2004, and acquired by Delivery Hero (DHER) in 2015. This gives us a unique outlook - local knowledge with global expertise. It also allows us to innovate, create, and bring new technologies for the betterment of the MENA region, such as q-commerce, sustainable packaging, cloud kitchens, autonomous delivery vehicles, robots, and drones.
We deliver across 9 countries with more than 4,500+ employees! Our food delivery business works with over 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches.
Our q-commerce concept, talabat mart (121 Stores), now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the UAE in 30 minutes or less!
talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries... worldwide
Job Description
Role Summary
We’re looking for a Fresh Food Category Manager 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!
The Fresh Food Category Manager will be primarily responsible for the planning, selecting and buying of merchandise for our tMart (Stores). Duties include market research, competitor analysis, product evaluations and testing, monitoring purchase orders and creating reports for the management team.
What’s On Your Plate?
• Research, select and purchase quality products
• Identifying and defining the best assortment based on the customer profile.
• Reactive and well connected to the market, to be able to close good deals (price, freshness, quantities) fast
• Must know the best source and origins of fruits and vegetables/ ability to calculate fast margins and good excel skills
• Update inventory and ensure that stock level is kept appropriate at all times
• Build new relationships with suppliers
• Analyze market trends and apply this knowledge to make buying decisions
• Comfortable with logistics flows (sea, air, road) and their impacts (freshness, lead time, price)
What Did We Order?
• 5 years’ experience in Bahrain (Major F&V companies in UAE)
• Very strong negotiation skills/ good product knowledge.
• F&V knowledge (items, origins, seasons, competition, suppliers, market trends, consumer behaviour, demographics specificities…)
• Expert on local production + import sourcing
• Able to quickly adapt in a changing environment/ agile
• Must have a driving license
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