Inventory Coordinator

Job description / Role

About the team

Careem Grocery is on a mission to reinvent how people shop for their daily essentials. As an exciting new vertical within Careem (a startup within a startup), we’re in the early stages of building our product. We have plenty of interesting and fundamental challenges to solve to achieve our ambitious goals.

What you'll do

• Lead day-to-day inventory management activities including but not limited to stock count, inventory adjustments, checks and investigations.
• Ensure seamless coordination across workstations to maintain flow and meet transfer order SLAs.
• Improve operational throughput by identifying bottlenecks and optimizing workflows.
• Manage and motivate a team of pickers, setting clear goals and expectations.
• Conduct shift planning, task allocation, and productivity management.
• Run onboarding and continuous training programs on SOPs, systems, and safety procedures.
• Build and maintain dashboards and trackers to monitor inventory accuracy.
• Use data to drive continuous improvement, solve operational problems, and hit performance targets.
• Leverage system-controlled transactions to minimize deviations.
• Develop and uphold standard operating procedures (SOPs) to ensure consistency, efficiency, and compliance.
• Monitor adherence to processes and identify areas for refinement and automation.
• Support rollouts of new operational initiatives and system changes.
• Enforce a safety-first culture through regular training, compliance checks, and risk mitigation practices.
• Maintain inventory accuracy through proper stock count check routines and plans.
• Investigate stock discrepancies, minimize shrinkage, and manage expired/damaged goods processes.

What you'll need

• 4+ years of experience in inventory management.
• Familiarity with ERP, WMS systems and digital tools used in day-to-day operations.
• Experience with dashboarding tools, spreadsheets, and performance analysis. SQL proficiency is a strong plus for extracting and working with operational data.
• Solid understanding of warehouse best practices, including inventory control, slotting, and space optimization.
• Hands-on, proactive, and solution-oriented — you’re comfortable on the warehouse floor, store environment and thrive under pressure.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to train, motivate, and drive accountability within your team.

What we’ll provide you

• We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full-time Careem colleague, you will be able to:
• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office and 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.

About the Company

We are a brand that aims to simplify people's lives by revolutionizing the transportation industry. A brand that strives to inspire everyone it interacts with, and supports every single person who dares to believe. #BeCareem

Careem is the MENA region's leading ride-hailing service and newest Tech Unicorn. With 30% monthly growth, we now operate in 50+ cities across 11 countries and host over 6 million users. With our recent Series D funding success, we are positioned on the cusp of significant scale and well on target to deliver our goal of creating one million jobs in the region by 2018.