A delivery platform with a high frequency essential use-case, millions of transactions and a large and growing regional ecosystem of customers, merchants and riders offers tremendous opportunities to embed financial services and commensurate challenges to conquer. Looking for a thoughtful, committed individual to support this effort in a role that can offer a wide scope across strategy and operations within our fintech team. The strategy & operations manager will work closely with the head of fintech at talabat in driving and executing the company’s fintech strategy.
- Building and optimizing talabat’s fintech strategy in the MENA region
- Act as the key resource to manage strategy-to-execution at talabat
- Support in P&L management for the fintech vertical
- Leading and executing new projects, ranging from evaluating options from execution & commercial viability standpoint to supporting rollouts in collaboration with cross functional teams
- Evaluating internal and/or external opportunities in line with our strategy, and project managing execution
- Working closely with key stakeholders within talabat and Delivery Hero
- Managing strategic external partnerships for fintech
- 5+ years experience in Strategy, Partnerships, Consulting or Operations roles at a tech, e-commerce or fintech company
- Understanding of fintech stream preferred, or ability to quickly adapt to complex concepts
- Solution oriented with a high sense of ownership and urgency
- Collaborative and open, with experience working with cross functional stakeholders such as product, legal, marketing,fraud and other business verticals
- Excellent presentation and project management skills
- Solid interpersonal and communication skills
- Quick learner and ability to size opportunities both from execution and business impact perspective
- Ability to convert large complex challenges into an executable step by step approach
- Baseline knowledge of the fintech industry
- Strong people and team management skills
talabat were founded in Kuwait in 2004, and acquired by Delivery Hero (DHER) in 2015. This gives them a unique outlook - local knowledge with global expertise. It also allows us to innovate, create, and bring new technologies for the betterment of the MENA region, such as q-commerce, sustainable packaging, cloud kitchens, autonomous delivery vehicles, robots, and drones.
