Category Manager

Job description / Role

Overview

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organization that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region's best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

About the Team

Careem Grocery 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.

About the Role

As a Category Manager, you'll be responsible for driving our strategies on assortment by defining our selection by store and working with other teams on sourcing, pricing, and promotions across our markets for categories. This is a unique role with the opportunity to create genuine impact for the lives of everyday people in our region. We're looking for someone with solid experience in procuring and managing the entire supply chain of products to ensure we provide the best quality products at the right price.

What You'll Do

• Build and lead the product line for Careem Groceries.
• Design the go-to-market strategy.
• Work with the team on maintaining the selection strategy in alignment with the overall department and business strategy and requirements.
• Work with the team to identify the selection that needs to be sourced within the categories.
• Identify and source key consumer trends in online grocery and Q-commerce business.
• Source and negotiate the required selection with the best prices, quality, and minimum MOQ that meets the business objectives, and ensure competitive commercial terms with the suppliers.
• Collaborate with the merchandising team to ensure the success of the launched campaigns.
• Collaborate with the supply chain team to ensure stock availability and smooth onboarding of the newly added items.
• Collaborate with the pricing team in sourcing competitive prices to maintain category profitability.
• Work closely with suppliers and maintain relationships through business reviews and growth planning.
• Work with the category assistant to ensure the hygiene of the item's content and maintain the right visibility on the app.

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 5+ years of experience in the grocery industry in buying or category management. Time spent in tech or a startup is a plus.
• Experience negotiating with manufacturers, FMCGs, or brand owners. You will be proactively reaching out to brands to build partnerships.
• You are an excellent communicator with strong influencing skills.
• You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and address something hands-on; you persevere when others fall away.
• Analytical skills are a big plus.

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 organization 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 the 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 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.