Senior Manager Commercial

talabat; Muscat; On-site; OMR 12,000 - 15,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading local delivery platform is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager in Muscat, Oman, to enhance their Grocery Store concept. The role involves developing commercial strategies, negotiating supplier contracts, and ensuring the execution of operational standards. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience managing product categories in a retail setting, strong analytical skills, and fluency in English, with Arabic being an advantage. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team driving innovation in grocery delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product category management in a retail setting.
• Capability to build and lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and detailed-oriented approach.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement commercial strategies for the region.
• Negotiate contracts with suppliers and manage pricing strategies.
• Monitor market trends and optimize purchasing operations.

Skills

Team Building

Negotiation

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Project Management

Job description

Overview

talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform. Our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.

Role Summary

We’re looking for a Senior Commercial Manager 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!

What’s On Your Plate?

• Setting overall commercial strategy for the country (mission, format positioning), defining and approving strategic guidelines (i.e. Divisions/ Departments/Category plan, Sourcing, Layout, Communication, Private label, …), ensuring consistency of different Category Managers
• Negotiating contract deals with suppliers, in addition to building the foreign/imports and private label range
• Supporting in major negotiations with suppliers – international and local suppliers Advertising and research agencies, etc
• Finalizing policies, procedures and standards (i.e. service level, imports incidence, suppliers standards, categories maintenance, negotiating terms…)
• Setting the guidelines/processes for imports (suppliers standards, show trades activities, negotiation standards…) in line with the overall merchandise Strategy
• Ensuring proper implementation of policies, procedure and standards such as service level, imports, suppliers standards, categories maintenance, negotiating terms, etc. for each department in the Division
• Reviewing and periodically revising assortments and pricing decisions developed by the country manager
• Ensuring cost-saving and effective purchasing.
• Assess and reports to Regional Director of the Division across store - sales, gross margin, Profit & Loss - and consistency with the Company commercial strategy - price positioning, basic assortment, etc. and raising appropriate reports
• Reviews pricing strategy versus price audits by market, to ensure no margin erosions while maintaining our budgeted gross margin
• Ensuring cost-effective management of stores, suggesting/directing improvement actions/alignment with best practices and coordinating with Corporate Functions
• Monitoring trends in the marketplace, including the competition and validating action plans for improvement

Qualifications

• You have at least 5+ years of experience in progressive development and management of multiple product categories, matured by working for large retailers (FMCG), in an international setting.
• You have built teams and led cross-functional projects at scale.
• You are very detail-oriented, structured and know how to prioritize -- you consider yourself as someone who delivers solutions and not bottlenecks to be solved.
• You are willing to do anything necessary for the project to succeed, including working on the warehouse floor when you are short staffed to making a customer delivery, or to take customer calls. No job is too insignificant, no detail is too small for you.
• You are able to interact with senior-level executives and can manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders. You are someone energized by the unknown and look forward to learning each day on the job. You have excellent analytical and communication skills, and always like to be hands-on with several tools.
• You have excellent analytical and communication skills, and always like to be hands-on with several tools.
• Additionally, you have robust interpersonal and intercultural skills. You can inspire several teams and stakeholders to rally behind a mission.
• Language skills: Fluent English and Arabic would be highly advantageous.