About the opportunity
Role Summary: We’re looking for a Fresh Food Commercial Specialist 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 Fresh Food Category Manager in:
Collecting retail audit from competition
Visit to tMart stores to monitor freshness and quality
Visit the central market and decide on item selection
Work closely with the demand planners and the suppliers to ensure timely and efficient delivery of fresh food products.
Working on reports
Working on admin related duties like updating price changes, content update on the app etc
Following up with suppliers on listings, pricing, product availability
Any other ad hoc requests from the manager
What you need to be successful
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.
Who we are
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
