General Manager - Groceries, KSA

About the Team

Careem Groceries is on a mission to reinvent the way people shop for grocery, pharmacy and retail products. As an exciting new vertical within Careem (a startup within a startup), we’re in the early stages of building our product and have plenty of interesting and fundamental challenges to solve in order to achieve our ambitious growth goals in this burgeoning space.

What you’ll do
As the General Manager, KSA you’ll be responsible for driving our strategies on assortment, pricing and promotions. This is a unique role with the opportunity to create genuine impact for the lives of everyday people in our region. You will report to the VP Groceries responsible for overall vertical. 

We’re looking for someone with an amazing understanding of grocery category management who can help us build our grocery dark store offering from the ground up. Our ideal candidate is someone with a strong sense of the industry, a knack for building selection in a customer obsessed manner and leveraging data-driven decision making, complemented by exceptional leadership skills and the ability to maintain strong external relationships so we unlock the best deals and execute seamlessly. 

• Establish strong relationships with suppliers & brands, originating new relationships to negotiate best-in-class deals
• Define an actionable strategy for Category Management (assortment, category hierarchy, pricing and promotions) based on Careem Grocery commercial strategy and guidelines
• Strive to continuously update and maintain assortment strategies to reflect market trends, local needs and preferences based on data-driven analysis
• Manage P&L for all categories - Manage budgets and define product margin targets by category
• Drive and own the reporting on category and item-level KPIs and performance to identify potential assortment improvements and derive strategies to improve supplier performance

Effectively partner with cross-functions including Supply Chain and Central Operations to optimize processes and achieve financial targets 

• Grow, lead and influence a team of Category Managers and Pricing Analysts
  
  

What you’ll need

Successful candidates will have a passionate commitment to improving the lives of people, an insane focus on excellence and customer centricity, and a strong alignment with our core values and purpose. 

• At least 10+ years of experience in category management or purchasing in the grocery industry. Time spent in tech, consulting, strategy, or a start-up is a plus. 
• You proactively recruit, coach and mentor top talent and ensure the team is fully engaged and delivering its very best work.
• You are an excellent communicator with any audience – executive, business, design or technology. You can easily explain complex concepts to people of any level.
• Experience in defining solutions to complex, strategic topics with a deeply analytical approach to issues. Sophisticated analytical capabilities is a plus.
• Grittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and address something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away