Sr. Manager New Ventures

Job Description

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.Role SummaryStrategy team within Talabat is a small, multicultural team of ex-consultants and industry veterans. As a Sr. Manager - New Ventures in the strategy team you will work on a wide range of high priority projects. In this role, you will get to work on challenging business problems - where to grow next, how is a strategic initiative performing and how to turnaround an initiative etc. Working with stakeholders from different parts of the business, you can expect exposure to different aspects of Talabat and interact with the senior leadership at Talabat.What?s on Your Plate?

• Develop analytical and conceptual frameworks to help leadership prioritise potential strategic initiatives and new sub business/products
• Identify new/emerging use cases and develop business case and commercial strategy
• Conduct market/industry studies, interviews with market participants, voice of customer research, benchmark/baseline exercises and other methods of primary and secondary data collection
• Continuously monitor and analyze competitor business models and product portfolios in key markets
• Execute opportunity sizing, profitability assessments, monetization models and other quantitative analyses
• Develop strategy and go-to-market by working with business-unit, product and local markets
• Identify and implement strategic partnership and investments/M&A
• Project-manage discussions with multiple internal and external stakeholders to ensure momentum

• Strong track-record of problem-solving, including structuring problems, performing detailed analysis, and developing & implementing recommendations
• Highly motivated and driven individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced, enthusiastic corporate environment
• Relevant education background, including MBA or strategy, innovation, or computer science degree from a top-tier academic institution
• 5+ years of professional experience, especially working with the strategy, business development or corporate development arm of a leading tech company and/or a top-tier management consulting firm. Startup experience a bonus
• Strong analytical and communication skills (both verbal and written) ? super comfortable with PowerPoint and Excel.
• Comfortable with continuous engagement with C-level and senior leadership

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