Category Manager - Snack And Frozen

Job description / Role

About the team

You will be joining the Grocery team at Careem, where we are on a mission to redefine convenience across the region. The team is highly cross-functional and collaborative, working closely with operations, commercial, analytics, and product teams.

About the role

We are looking for a Category Manager to drive our Snacks & Frozen strategy and support the execution within the Grocery vertical. This role is based in Dubai and will play a key part in shaping the growth of our product portfolio, optimizing pricing, sourcing, and vendor relationships to ensure strong performance across the region.

What you’ll do

• Own the P&L for categories and assortment strategy for categories in the UAE.
• Develop strategic sourcing strategies, lead supplier negotiations and onboarding, ensuring alignment with Careem’s commercial requirements and expectations.
• Work closely with supply chain and demand planning teams to maintain high availability and optimized inventory levels.
• Partner with marketing and product teams to drive visibility, adoption, and conversion of SKUs.
• Monitor category performance, customer feedback, and market trends to refine strategies.
• Collaborate with legal, finance, and compliance to ensure all products meet regulatory standards.

What you’ll need

• 5–8 years of experience in category management, merchandising, procurement, or strategic sourcing — ideally in grocery retail or FMCG.
• Proven track record of owning commercial KPIs and delivering on margin and growth targets.
• Strong negotiation skills and experience managing supplier relationships.
• Analytical mindset with comfort in Excel and data tools to drive decisions.
• Entrepreneurial drive, ownership mindset, and bias for action.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.

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.