Commercial Initiatives Manager

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 50 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

You will get to be part of a dynamic and autonomous team from Careem veterans to new tigers who joined on a mission to build Careem Food all aligned on the same values of ownership, shooting to the moon and being of service to customers, partners, colleagues and captain in Abu Dhabi.

About the Role

The team is looking for a self-starting, enthusiastic and passionate individual who can partner with the UAE Food leadership team to ideate and execute on new initiatives that will drive business growth. It is a high visibility role that requires strong stakeholder management skills to drive outcomes and push our thinking to new levels. This role reports into the GM of the UAE food business.

What you'll do

Ideation of commercial projects:
Identify areas of opportunity for growth for the business, both in terms of topline as well as bottomline improvement, including liaising with multiple stakeholders to flesh out the details. This could include new revenue streams, on ground efforts to boost customer acquisition and community engagement activities as well as driving operational excellence.

Execution :
You will be responsible for the heavy lifting required for these projects to see the light of day. This will require both, stakeholder management (internal and external), as well as a bias for execution

Program Management:
Lead work streams and projects independently in cross-functional settings. Mitigate risks and obstacles to ensure project success.

Industry and competition:
Continuously monitor industry trends and gather competitive intelligence to identify opportunities/threats and feed into plans/strategy.

Analytics and insights:
Work closely with the data & analytics team to uncover strategic insights that help shape future plans, projects, etc. and aid regular decision making as well as use data to ideate on areas of future potential for growth.

What you'll need

The ideal candidate would be someone who has 3+ years of work experience in commercial and project/program management roles (experience in a high-growth tech startup and/ or a top-tier consulting environment highly desirable). Additional qualifications and skill sets include:

- Top notch problem solving and analytical ability
- Exceptional communication skills with a spike on executive communication
- Strong program management and change management skills
- Strong commercial and business acumen (in food tech is a bonus)
- Is passionately curious about the business and the market
- Is able to collaborate effectively and build stakeholder relationships
- Is solution-oriented and practical
- Is ambitious, self-driven and acts like an owner
- Incredibly strong stakeholder manager that can hold others accountable

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