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 with more than 3,000+ employees! 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!
Our philosophy is to make sure we do what is right for our ecosystem - our customers, our partners, our people, our riders, and the communities in which we operate. Our #techforgood program allows our customers a safe and convenient way to contribute to important causes in their community through donating to local and international charities directly on talabat with a focus on food insecurity in the region. Since its inception in 2020, we have facilitated the donation of well over 1 million meals to those in need, as well as donated over $1.5 million to charity with the help of our partners and customers. talabat is part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food delivery and q-commerce.
Who are weWhen 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 with more than 3,000+ employees! 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!
Our philosophy is to make sure we do what is right for our ecosystem - our customers, our partners, our people, our riders, and the communities in which we operate. Our #techforgood program allows our customers a safe and convenient way to contribute to important causes in their community through donating to local and international charities directly on talabat with a focus on food insecurity in the region. Since its inception in 2020, we have facilitated the donation of well over 1 million meals to those in need, as well as donated over $1.5 million to charity with the help of our partners and customers. talabat is part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food delivery and q-commerce.
As Talabat continues to grow and keep ahead of the curve we have launched our very own end-end grocery service across the MENA region: tMart
Role SummaryWe're looking for an Inventory Control Lead to join the team and focus on growing our own Grocery Store tMart, which is the region's first cloud store concept offering 30-minutedelivery of groceries at hypermarket prices. The service has expanded rapidly across Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and Iraq!
This role will require you to maintain inventory on the stocks in the warehouse and talabat mart stores
What's On Your Plate
Monitoring stock level and records accuracy of 100K lines
Leading a team of 4 direct reports (inventory controllers), accountable for their performance
Planning and execution of spot checks and cycle counts in a timely manner
Reporting directly to top management for modifications and shrinks
Reviewing all inventory control processes and making sure we always run lean and efficient processes
Maintaining optimal inventory profitability levels and issuung recommendations to improve GMROI
Coming up with new reports that have a direct impact on business performance
Accountable for the overall Inventory and quality control of warehouse and inventory control of tmart stores of in the UAE
Establishing relationships with main departments stakeholders: operations, commercial, demand planning, finance, etc. to ensure smooth collaboration across divisions
Guidance to operations to maintain shrink and modification rate low as it affects the P&L
Responsible for warehouse inventory by performing spot checks and cycle counts following predifened periodic cycle counts
What Did We Order
Prior experience as an inventory controller
Data and detail oriented
Excellent analytical and communication skills, and always hands-on with several tools
Ability to interact/guide the senior-level executives and can manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders
Tech Savvy
Provides day-to-day supervision to a team including coaching on performance, coordinating activities, checking on quality and work progress
Leads, coordinating and facilitating the work of others, has supervisory responsibilities
Takes a broad perspective to problems and spots new, less obvious solutions
Performs a variety of the most complex tasks and/or leads one or more teams