Category Manager - MENA (Assortment)
talabat
Date: 5 hours ago
City: Dubai
Contract type: Full time

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 over 70+ 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
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 over 70+ 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
- Set Assortment Guidelines by Country ( Breadth & Depth)
- Lead with local teams on SKU Limit, Brand Limit, by category depending on Different Category Roles
- Develop reports to assess the performance of the categories by country, covering low performing items, GMROI, Potential categories for assortment increase/ decrease, Cohorts & Csat scores.
- Lead with country teams on Identifying Brands that are Available in Targeted players in the market& Support country teams on Tracking newly listed items by Market for Main Suppliers
- Lead with Country teams on doing Gap Analysis of Tmart Assortment vs. Competition
- Support on exploring and listing exclusive brands & SKUs
- Lead with country teams on doing category performance reviews, by doing proper category rationalization exercises to identify items that need to be closed out and categories that require more listings
- Lead with country teams on identifying category roles and item roles by country taking into consideration different market dynamics and consumer behaviours
- Identify categories that require having investors and follow through on implementation
- Come up with special projects that help differentiate Tmart from competition and provide local teams with the needed support on implementation
- You have 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.
- You have built teams and led cross-functional projects at scale.
- 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.
- You are willing to do anything necessary for the project to succeed, including working on the warehouse floor when you are short staffed to making a customer delivery, or to take customer calls. No job is too insignificant, no detail is too small for you.
- You are able to interact with senior-level executives and can manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders. You are someone energized by the unknown and look forward to learning each day on the job. You have excellent analytical and communication skills, and always like to be hands-on with several tools.
- You have excellent analytical and communication skills, and always like to be hands-on with several tools.
- Additionally, you have robust interpersonal and intercultural skills. You can inspire several teams and stakeholders to rally behind a mission.
- Language skills: Fluent English and Arabic would be highly advantageous.
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