Business Development Manager

3 days ago


Makkah Al Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia Careem Full time

Careem is the leading technology platform for the greater Middle East. A pioneer of the region’s ride-hailing economy, Careem is expanding services across its platform to include payments, delivery and mass transportation. Careem’s mission is to simplify and improve the lives of people and build a lasting institution that inspires. Established in July 2012, Careem operates in more than 120 cities across 15 countries and has created more than one million job opportunities in the region.

Careem Grocery is on a mission to reinvent the way people shop for grocery, pharmacy and retail products. As an exciting new vertical within Careem (a startup within a startup), we’re in the early stages of building our product and have plenty of interesting and fundamental challenges to solve in order to achieve our ambitious growth goals in this burgeoning space.

**About the role**:
As a BD Manager, you’ll be responsible for sourcing SKUs from various suppliers, while leading negotiations to ensure the best selection and margins possible

We’re looking for someone with food and/or grocery industry experience, ideally in one or more of the following categories: Fresh products, Fruits & Vegetables, packaged food or non-food.

**What you’ll do**:

- Build strong relationships with your suppliers and lead negotiations to ensure the best assortment and margins
- Buy and manage assortment by sourcing the best items and brands possible in order to provide the best experience for our customers
- Partner with Category Managers to identify key consumer trends in our business
- Ensure that we have an updated assortment based on the Commercial team recommendations
- Work across categories, with different internal category stakeholders, including food & non food products
- Collaborate with various functions including commercial, supply chain and store operations teams
- Help to create smooth logístical relationships with Supply Chain and Suppliers

**What you’ll need**:

- At least 4+ years of experience in the Food or FMCG retail sector in Buying or Category Management. Time spent in tech or a start-up is a plus
- A strong understanding of the Middle East grocery/convenience market - and a willingness to disrupt the way it currently operates
- Experience negotiating with business development partners, FMCG or brand owners. You will be proactively reaching out to brands to build a partnership.
- You are an excellent communicator with any audience with stellar stakeholder management - You can easily explain complex concepts to people of any level
- Grittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and address something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away

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