Manager, Strategy and Performance

The role involves analyzing talabat s business performance, preparing data-driven insights for senior management, conducting in-depth market analyses to unlock topline and bottom-line opportunities, leading special projects, and ensuring talabat is on track to hit PnL targets. WHAT S ON YOUR PLATE? • Strategic Leadership & Planning Vision Execution: Translate Group-level goals into localized Grocery and Retail strategies for various markets. • Annual Budgeting & OKRs: Lead the annual and quarterly planning cycles, setting aggressive yet realistic targets for revenue, cost, and market share. • Market Expansion: Evaluate new business opportunities, market entries, or service line extensions (e.g., talabat mart). Reporting Performance Management • Analyze Data: Dive into talabat s performance metrics, identifying key trends, anomalies, and areas for improvement. • Prepare Reports: Create comprehensive and insightful reports for senior management, highlighting key drivers of change and actionable insights. • Communicate Findings: Present findings in a clear and concise manner, often translating complex data into understandable recommendations for decision-makers. Conducting Analytical Deep Dives • Country-Specific Analysis: Perform detailed analyses of different talabat markets, focusing on identifying 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. Special projects: • Launching new products: Develop business use cases with innovative ideas and bring them to life by working on their implementation, ensuring they align with strategic goals and add value to the business. • PnL management: Budgeting: Collaborate with local teams to develop talabat s yearly budget, setting growth and profitability goals. • PnL management: Ensure that budgets are adhered to consistently across the organization and proactively identify and pursue opportunities to exceed financial targets and enhance overall profitability. Preferred candidates will be: • Bachelor's Degree from a reputed institution and in related field (MBA is a plus) • 5+ years of professional experience within the food delivery, e-commerce or management consulting industries (Past experience in subscription-focused business is a plus) • Strong finance acumen; experience in P&L analysis, financial modeling, budgeting, business impact analysis • Expertise with data tools: Big Query, SQL, Lookr etc. • Strong analytical and communication skills (both verbal and written) • Experience with PowerPoint and Excel And/ Or Google Slides/ Sheets. • Strong track-record of problem-solving, including structuring problems, performing detailed analysis, and translating data into actionable insights. • Proven experience in stakeholder management, relationship management, or similar roles within the food tech industry or related sectors. • Experience working closely with cross-functional teams is a plus