Category Manager - Private Label

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.

We’re looking for a Regional Category Manager – Private Label 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!

What’s On Your Plate?

• Managing PL portfolio at the regional level (responsibility for sales, profitability, availability, inventory, strong presence of the portfolio in the app)
• Leading countries in managing local PL suppliers, full responsibility over regional/international PL suppliers, sourcing new potential suppliers while extending the portfolios
• Leading private label development process for new items (assortment selection, suppliers sourcing, packaging creation and launch preparation): multiple projects in multiple countries at the same time

Necessary skill set:

(A) Category Management

-Strong understanding of Commercial 4Ps (Pricing, Promotion, Presentation, Product)

-Strong analytical skills - monitoring of PL portfolio performance for the whole region (sales, profitability, availability, inventories etc.), extracting insights from the data to improve and optimize PL performance across the region (action plan recommendations for local markets)

-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 and international suppliers

(B) Brand Building

-Strong project management skills due to leading private label development process for new items

-Ability to work efficiently with external creative agency (packaging creation)

-Assuring maintenance of a consistent brand image of PL portfolio across the region (packaging standards, communication/promotional standards etc.), keeping local markets in line with regional guidelines

(C) Others

-Great eye for details while managing new PL items development processes (lots of steps, grasping knowledge from different areas like legal, quality, design)

-Impeccable time management skills in order to push all the projects efficiently and make sure that other stakeholders involved are following agreed timelines

-Arabic speaker would be a big help in checking Arabic language used on the labels of all PL items

This role should:

- Based on sales data take actions to optimize/uplift the PL portfolio's performance in each of the local markets

- Based on the service level and inventory stocks (final product & packaging) take actions to optimize the logistics and make sure that we never run out of stock

- Analyze communication/promotional activities and take actions to optimize them, share best practices across the region

- Create and execute different negotiations strategies to assure manufacturers for all PL project (we are still a growing business with limited volumes to secure, so it can be very challenging to find suppliers willing to be flexible in the areas that are crucial for us - core example MOQs)

What Did We Order?

• Exposure to multiple external (local & international suppliers, creative agency etc.) and internal stakeholders
• Indirectly leading a cross-functional team to achieve set targets
• Ability to influence others in order to facilitate and achieve targets better and faster
• Leading local markets and making sure they are in line with all the regional guidelines, so being able to precisely and concisely explain things is crucial.
• 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 someone energized by the unknown and look forward to learning each day on the job.
• Language skills: Fluent English and Arabic.