Senior Bakery & RTE Manager

Job description / Role

About Careem

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.

What You'll Do

As a Sr 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. 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 experience in restaurants or large scale kitchens and bakery in managing daily operations and preparing a range of bakery and ready-to-eat meal products.

Responsible For

• Set up and run the central cloud kitchen, in preparing and making bread, cakes, and other baked goods.
• Ensure accurate control over the ordering of raw materials and their respective sections.
• Supervise all kitchen sections to ensure efficiency and quality.
• Identify key consumer trends in online grocery and Q-commerce business and decide the assortment for bakery, pastry, and ready-to-eat categories.
• Strive to continuously update and maintain assortment strategies to reflect market trends, local needs, and preferences based on data-driven analysis.
• Collaborate with various functions including commercial, supply chain, and store operations teams to ensure end-to-end quality control and management of the products.
• Hire and train the required staff for the cloud kitchen.

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 6+ years of experience in running a kitchen or a restaurant with deep expertise in baking.
• Expertise in food preparation, cooking techniques, and kitchen management.
• Strong knowledge of food safety standards and regulations.
• Proven experience managing kitchen staff and inventory.
• Creativity in menu and recipe design.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Culinary degree or relevant certification (preferred).

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 office & 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.