Product Manager II – Supply Chain

Jobsatdubai; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 335,000 - 614,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Flexible work arrangement

Remote work up to 30 days/year

Unlimited vacation days

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Careem, shaping the Grocery segment within the Everything App, seeks a Product Manager II to own the supply chain features and inventory optimization. You will drive product discovery, validation, and execution with cross-functional teams to improve stock availability and customer experience.

The role emphasizes analytical rigor, collaboration, and scaling of new features for a 30M+ user base, with a hybrid working model and a focus on impact across the Middle East region.

Qualifications

• Experience in product management with a focus on demand forecasting in fast-moving consumer spaces.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear product requirements and roadmaps.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data and drive decisions.
• Comfort with Lean and Agile methodologies and fast iteration cycles.
• Proven ability to manage relationships with stakeholders and executives.

Responsibilities

• Manage the complete feature lifecycle from planning and OKRs to backlog grooming and sprint execution.
• Identify and develop new products and enhancements to boost conversion and orders per user.
• Help define a compelling vision, roadmap, and portfolio strategy for the product area.
• Clarify business requirements and validate them against user needs and technical effort.
• Communicate features clearly to stakeholders and serve as the main point of contact for inquiries.
• Use quantitative and qualitative data to form hypotheses, test assumptions, and reduce risk.

Skills

Product management

Demand forecasting

Quick commerce / Grocery

Agile / Lean

Stakeholder management

Job description

Product Manager II – Supply Chain

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

About the team

Groceries is Careem’s latest rocketship and this role is a great opportunity to join the founding team for this exciting new pursuit. As a Product Manager II in the Grocery team, you will lead and own exciting features, products and services to ensure customers get what they want when they want it. This is an individual contributor role that requires exceptional analytical skills and close collaboration with our various teams. You will have an opportunity to drive the conceptualisation, development and rapid testing of new features that will help streamline inventory management and supply chain journey in order to ensure stock availability.

This is a central role and requires a unique blend of business, technical acumen, and peer-to-peer collaboration; including the ability to zoom out and see the big picture, but also the willingness and intellectual prowess to zoom in to the finer details that need to be addressed when scaling features to a user base of 30M+.

What you’ll do

• Manage the entire feature lifecycle, starting with planning and OKRs, all the way to managing backlog and agile iterations.


• Identify, conceptualise and develop new products as well as improvements to existing products with the goal of improving conversion and orders per user


• Help contribute to creating a compelling vision, mission, and roadmap for our product portfolio that energizes and builds momentum within the teams


• Clarify requirements from business stakeholders and validate them against user needs and tech effort, including company goals (write product requirement documents etc.)


• Communicate effectively with key stakeholders on product features and acting as the main point of contact for any enquiries.


• Gather and use quantitative and qualitative data, creating hypotheses and making informed product decisions, testing assumptions early to reduce risk up-front.


• Perform user lab testing and user interviews, to synthesize insights and feedback and disseminate that knowledge into the tech teams, building better products.

What you’ll need

• At least 2 to 4 years of prior experience working in a Product role of which at least 1-2 years in demand forecasting in the Quick commerce industry (Food, Grocery, …) or the broader e-commerce space


• Ability to get hands-on in a complex operational environment, to manage and close the loop on multiple concurring tasks.


• Experience with Lean and Agile methodologies and processes (e.g. sprints, kanban etc.)


• Good commercial awareness and be able to demonstrate your competence in analysing, reporting and efficiently responding to quantitative and qualitative data.


• Proven experience in developing and maintaining good relationships with key stakeholders, partners and executive management.

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.