About
The Manager, Special Projects & Performance role is part of the regional Chief Business Office organizational structure at talabat. The main focus of this position is to analyze talabat’s business performance and prepare data-driven insights for senior management. This role involves conducting in-depth market analyses to identify topline and bottom-line opportunities, leading special projects, and ensuring that talabat is on track to meet profit and loss (PnL) targets.
What’s On Your Plate?
This role will help drive strategic projects and generate insights for the business, focusing on four main areas:
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Reporting Business Performance:
- Analyze Data: Dive into talabat’s performance metrics to identify key trends, anomalies, and areas for improvement.
- Prepare Reports: Create comprehensive reports for senior management, highlighting key drivers of change and actionable insights.
- Communicate Findings: Present findings in a clear manner, translating complex data into understandable recommendations for decision-makers.
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Conducting Analytical Deep Dives:
- Country-Specific Analysis: Perform detailed analyses of different talabat markets to identify turnaround opportunities, growth, and profitability areas.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with various departments to understand and address cross-functional issues impacting business performance.
- Strategy Development: Develop and recommend strategies based on analysis to improve overall performance and achieve business objectives.
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Special Projects:
- Launching New Products: Develop business use cases with innovative ideas, working on their implementation to ensure alignment with strategic goals that add value to the business.
- PnL Management: Collaborate with local teams to develop talabat’s yearly budget, setting growth and profitability goals, and ensuring budgets are adhered to consistently across the organization.
What You Need to Be Successful
What Did We Order?
- Thought Leadership: Ability to drive innovation and impact.
- Analytical Mindset: Strong problem-solving skills focused on data-driven decisions.
- Curiosity: Eagerness to learn, explore, and drive creative solutions.
- Stakeholder Management: Skilled in engaging and managing diverse stakeholder interests.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Effective in working with teams across different functions to achieve common goals.
- Experience with financial modeling and PnL analysis: Strongly preferred.
- Experience using SQL, BigQuery, Looker, Tableau: Strongly preferred.
Who We Are
Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app, has been offering convenience and reliability to its customers across eight countries in the region. We harness innovative technology to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurants and local shops, and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities. At talabat, we foster an innovative environment where our employees can strive to create a positive impact across the region through the use of our platform.
