Assistant Category Manager

About the role

Requirements

• What Did We Order?
• - You have at least 5+ years of experience in progressive development and management of multiple product categories, matured by working for large retailers (FMCG), in an international setting.
• - You have built teams and led cross-functional projects at scale.
• - You are very detail-oriented, and structured and know how to prioritize -- you consider yourself as someone who delivers solutions and not bottlenecks to be solved.
• - You are willing to do anything necessary for the project to succeed, including working on the warehouse floor when you are short-staffed to make a customer delivery, or to take customer calls. No job is too insignificant, no detail is too small for you.
• - You can interact with senior-level executives and can manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders.
• - You are someone energized by the unknown and look forward to learning each day on the job. You have excellent analytical and communication skills and always like to be hands-on with several tools.
• - You have excellent analytical and communication skills and always like to be hands-on with
• - several tools.
• - Additionally, you have robust interpersonal and intercultural skills. You can inspire several teams and stakeholders to rally behind a mission.
• - Language skills: Fluent in English mandatory & Arabic can be a plus

Responsibilities

• What you’ll do (inferred from description):
• - Drive growth for tMart, Delivery Hero's cloud store concept offering 30-minute grocery delivery at hypermarket prices across multiple markets.
• - Own category strategy and management for grocery product categories, leading cross-functional projects at scale.
• - Collaborate with senior executives and stakeholders to align on goals and deliver solutions.
• - Be hands-on and willing to engage across operational levels, including on-the-ground tasks to ensure project success.

Skills

• Category management
• Cross-functional leadership
• Data analysis
• Stakeholder management
• Operational execution
• Warehousing/operations familiarity
• Hands-on with analytics/tools
• Interpersonal and intercultural skills
• English proficiency