Overview

Role Summary

We’re looking for a Senior Operations Manager to join the team and focus on growing our Local shops business, which is the region’s biggest grocery aggregator enabling millions of consumers to order and get products from their favorite stores delivered to their homes.

What’s On Your Plate?

  • Managing the full operations end to end (team operations, 3pl management, vendor management, picker management, property/asset management, operational standards, expense control).
  • Stock management: Ensure correct processes, policies and proper management of store data to ensure only products available in the store are present on the app.
  • Picker process: Ensure efficient and correct pick and pack process and service level (picking up the correct item/quantity) & proper management of the staffing and scheduling as per demand to achieve desired UTR and service level.
  • 3PL personal management: hiring and managing strong 3PL partners who provide and manage manpower to improve our overall in-store operations.
  • Property / Asset Management: Proper management of the property and facility, plus asset management and tracking.
  • Expense Control: Identify potential opportunities to reduce expenses with the same operational efficiency.
  • Managing Productivity, work standards, and development of store staff.
  • Monitoring and managing the store costs VS budget for the section.
  • Ensuring continuous improvement of current performance VS accepted standard/best practices at the store (i.e. stock level, productivity, service level).
  • Monitoring the financial and operational performance of each store and initiating required actions for improvement.
  • Controlling and ensuring that equipment, infrastructure, etc. in stores are used and maintained properly.
  • Developing action plans with the department manager to address weak areas in need of improvement.
  • Instituting training and developmental programs for staff and monitoring effective implementation.
  • Monitoring product range availability according to selected store product range.
  • Develop preventive and regular maintenance plans.

What Did We Order?

  • You have at least 10+ years of experience in progressive development and management of multiple product categories, matured by working for large retailers, in an international setting. If you have worked for a fulfilment, operations, e-commerce, FMCG retail business it is a plus.
  • You have built teams and led cross-functional projects at scale.
  • You are very detail-oriented, structured, and know how to prioritize — you consider yourself as someone who delivers solutions and not bottlenecks to be solved.
  • You are able to 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.
  • Additionally, you have robust interpersonal and intercultural skills. You can inspire several teams and stakeholders to rally behind a mission.
  • Language skills: Fluent English and Arabic would be highly advantageous.

About Talabat

When you think of food delivery in the MENA region, we’d be pretty surprised if talabat didn’t pop into your mind first! Since delivering our first order in Kuwait in 2004, we’ve grown quite a lot over the past 17 years.

Today, we deliver hundreds of millions of food orders, grocery items and other products per year, to our customers in nine countries throughout the region. Our food delivery business works with over 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches, while our q-commerce concept, talabat mart, now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman Qatar, and the UAE in 30 minutes or less!