Specialist Category Management - Fresh Food

Company Description

Talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, 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.

Job Description

Role Summary

We’re looking for a Specialist Category Management to join the 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! The fresh food department includes Produce, Deli, Bakery, Meat & Poultry, Fish & Seafood, and

Ready to eat.

What's On Your Plate?

Assists FF Category Manager in:

• Collect weekly price quotations from produce suppliers, compile data, and propose items allocations based on cost- supplier service levels
• Collecting retail audit from competition
• Generate daily/weekly availability performance, shrinkage, and sales reports to help drive category insights.
• Set up, launch, and activate promotional campaigns directly within the internal promo tool.
• Visit the central market and get update on new seasonal items available in market and decide on item selection
• Visit to tMart stores to monitor freshness and quality
• Work closely with the demand planners and the suppliers to ensure timely and efficient delivery of fresh food products.
• Working on admin related duties like updating price changes, rank change content update on the app etc
• Following up with suppliers on listings, pricing, product availability
• Any other ad hoc requests from the manager

Qualifications

What Did We Order?

• You have at least 3+ years of experience in progressive development and management of multiple fresh food categories, matured by working for large retailers (FMCG), in an international setting.
• You have technical fresh food knowledge that enables you to provide your manager with accurate information
• Has decent commercial knowledge such as profitability, margin calculations and feasibility and benchmarking knowledge.
• You are very detail-oriented, structured and know how to prioritize -- you consider yourself as someone who delivers solutions and not bottlenecks to be solved.