Junior Category Executive

Careem; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Remote work

Unlimited vacation

Hybrid schedule

Job summary

Careem is seeking a Junior Category Executive for the Groceries team to turn large data sets into actionable insights, dashboards, and presentations that guide supplier discussions and executive decisions. You will work with SQL and data tools in a fast-paced Q-commerce environment.

The role emphasizes analytical thinking, data storytelling, and building accessible dashboards for non-technical stakeholders, with a hybrid in-office and remote work setup.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of experience in analytical, commercial, or category role in retail / e-commerce.
• Strong ability to distill large data into clear insights and steps forward.
• Hands-on experience writing SQL queries and building dashboards for decision support.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large volumes of category, supplier, and customer data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Write and maintain SQL queries to extract, validate, and manipulate data for analysis.
• Automate reports and build dashboards for day-to-day performance monitoring of sales, pricing, margins, and stock.
• Design intuitive, self-serve dashboards for stakeholders to track performance without manual effort.
• Create decks for supplier reviews and senior management meetings, highlighting analytics.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Dashboards

BI tools

Excel/Sheets

Tools

BI tools

Job description

About the Company

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East — making it easy to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Our purpose is simple: to simplify and improve people’s lives and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has enabled earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of more than 70 million customers, and built a platform where the region’s best talent and entrepreneurs thrive. We operate in 70+ cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

We’re now entering our next chapter — one powered by AI. We’re looking for AI talent: curious problem-solvers who know how to apply AI to build tools, automate workflows, and create real impact. Whether it’s streamlining operations, enhancing customer experience, or reimagining internal systems — we want people who can make Careem work smarter and move faster.

About The Team

The Careem Groceries team is transforming the way people shop for everyday essentials by offering a fast, reliable, and seamless Q-commerce experience. Within this fast-paced environment, the Category Management team is responsible for building the right assortment, pricing, and promotions that delight customers while driving business growth.

About The Role

As a Junior Category Executive, you will be the analytical engine of the category team - turning large volumes of commercial data into clear insights, dashboards, and presentations that shape decisions with suppliers and senior management. This role is ideal for someone who is highly analytical, comfortable with SQL and data tools, and eager to build a career in category management within a fast-paced Q-commerce environment.

What You’ll Do

• Analyse large volumes of category, supplier, and customer data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities – and translate them into clear insights and actionable next steps.
• Write and maintain queries on Insights and in SQL to extract, validate, and manipulate data for category and commercial analysis.
• Automate recurring data reports and build dashboards to enable day-on-day monitoring of sales, pricing, margins, and stock availability.
• Design easy-to-use, self-serve dashboards that allow the category team and stakeholders to track performance without manual effort.
• Create creative, well-structured decks and presentations - both ad-hoc and on a regular cadence - for external supplier performance reviews and senior management meetings, showcasing analytics in a comprehensive and understandable way.
• Support commercial analysis across key Q-commerce levers, including ads monetization, margin analysis, and rebate structures.
• Track performance of the category - including sales, pricing, promotions, and availability - and proactively flag risks or opportunities to the Category Manager.
• Support the preparation of periodic business reviews with key suppliers, including data packs, performance summaries, and recommendations.
• Collaborate with category, supply chain, and content teams to ensure data-driven decision-making across assortment, pricing, and promotions.

What You’ll Need

• 1–2 years of experience in an analytical, commercial, or category role, preferably within retail, quick commerce, or e-commerce.
• Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to analyse large volumes of data and distil them into clear insights and recommended steps forward.
• Hands-on experience writing SQL queries; ability to build and run queries on Insights (or similar BI/reporting tools).
• Experience automating reports and building dashboards for day-on-day performance analysis; ability to create easy-to-use, intuitive dashboards for non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills - able to build creative, polished decks for supplier performance meetings and senior management, on both an ad-hoc and regular basis.
• Solid understanding of the Q-commerce business model, including ads monetization, margin analysis, and rebate structures.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets; familiarity with data visualization and reporting tools is a strong plus.
• Strong understanding of commercial KPIs and category performance metrics.
• Detail-oriented with solid organizational and time management abilities.
• A proactive attitude, willingness to learn, and the ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

What We’ll Provide You

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.