Business Analytics Specialist – Growth and Marketing – Talabat

talabat is hiring a Business Analytics Specialist to sit within its Growth and Marketing function in Dubai, a role built for someone who’s comfortable translating raw data into decisions that actually move a fast-growing app forward. Rather than working in a purely technical analytics silo, this position sits close to the marketing and growth teams that plan campaigns, manage acquisition channels, and try to grow order frequency and customer lifetime value, which means the analysis produced here feeds directly into commercial decisions.

Day to day, the role likely involves pulling and analyzing data on customer acquisition, retention, campaign performance, and conversion funnels, then packaging those findings into reports, dashboards, or recommendations that growth and marketing stakeholders can act on. That can mean evaluating which acquisition channels are delivering efficient growth, measuring the impact of promotions or campaigns on order volume, or building models that help forecast growth trends. It’s a role that requires fluency in data tools alongside a genuine interest in the business questions behind the numbers, not analysis for its own sake, but analysis that answers the question of what the business should do differently.

The position sits within talabat’s Growth and Marketing organization in Dubai, working closely with marketing managers, growth leads, and likely product or data engineering teams who maintain the underlying data infrastructure. Because talabat operates across multiple markets as part of Delivery Hero, there’s often a regional dimension to this kind of work, comparing performance and trends across different countries even when based centrally in Dubai.

This role suits someone who enjoys sitting between data and business strategy — comfortable with SQL, spreadsheets, and dashboards, but equally comfortable presenting findings to non-technical stakeholders and pushing back on marketing plans when the data suggests a different approach. It’s a strong fit for an analytically minded person who wants their work to have visible, near-term commercial impact rather than sitting several layers removed from the business.

A Business Analytics Specialist embedded in Growth and Marketing has a direct line to how efficiently talabat spends its marketing budget and how effectively it grows and retains customers. Marketing decisions made without solid data behind them tend to waste spend on the wrong channels or the wrong customer segments, so someone in this role is effectively protecting the return on every dirham the growth team puts into acquisition and retention efforts. By analyzing which campaigns, channels, and offers actually move the needle on orders and retention, this role helps the marketing team double down on what works and cut what doesn't, which matters enormously in a competitive food and grocery delivery market where multiple platforms are fighting for the same customers. Good analytics work here also shapes how talabat forecasts growth, sets targets, and reports performance internally, which affects planning decisions well beyond the marketing team itself. In a market as competitive as UAE food delivery, the margin between a campaign that's genuinely efficient and one that just looks busy often comes down to exactly this kind of rigorous, data-backed analysis, making the role a meaningful lever on both growth and cost efficiency for the business.

Working as a Business Analytics Specialist inside a Growth and Marketing function is a strong way to build commercially-minded analytics experience, which is a different skill set from analytics roles that sit purely within a data or engineering organization. This role forces a person to connect numbers to business outcomes constantly, not just producing a report, but understanding what a marketing manager or growth lead will actually do differently because of it. That commercial fluency is highly valued and tends to open doors into growth strategy, marketing leadership, or even general management roles later on, because it demonstrates an ability to bridge technical and business thinking. The role also builds deep, practical experience with the kind of tools and metrics that matter across consumer tech broadly: SQL, dashboarding tools, funnel analysis, retention and LTV modeling, and marketing channel evaluation. These are highly transferable skills, valuable at any consumer-facing company, whether e-commerce, fintech, or another delivery platform. Working at talabat specifically adds the benefit of exposure to a large-scale, high-frequency transaction business, which produces enormous volumes of behavioral data, a very different and arguably richer analytical environment than a lower-frequency business would offer. Because talabat operates as part of Delivery Hero's international group, there's also potential exposure to how growth and marketing analytics work across other markets, which broadens perspective beyond just the UAE. For someone early or mid-career in analytics, this kind of role is a strong stepping stone toward more senior analytics, growth, or strategy positions, and it builds a habit of data-driven decision-making that carries value into almost any future role in a data-rich organization.

• Experience in business analytics, data analysis, or a similar analytical role, ideally supporting marketing or growth functions
• Strong SQL skills and comfort working with large datasets
• Proficiency with data visualization or BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker
• Solid understanding of marketing and growth metrics, such as CAC, retention, conversion, and LTV
• Excellent Excel or spreadsheet modeling skills
• Strong communication skills for presenting data insights to non-technical stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Economics, Business, or a related discipline
• Experience in e-commerce, delivery, or a consumer tech environment is a plus