Business Performance and Strategy Analyst – Talabat

talabat is looking for a Business Performance and Strategy Analyst to join its performance analysis and research function in Dubai. This role is focused on monitoring talabat’s core business performance, turning operational and financial data into insights that leadership and business teams can actually act on.

The day-to-day work involves tracking key performance metrics across talabat’s business, building and maintaining performance analysis frameworks, and flagging trends or anomalies that warrant deeper investigation or leadership attention. This isn’t just reporting — it requires genuine analytical judgment about what the numbers are actually saying and why, and the ability to translate that into clear recommendations for business and strategy teams.

Because talabat operates across multiple markets and business lines, this Analyst will need to work with data from varied sources and present findings in a way that’s consistent and comparable, while still capturing the nuance of different market conditions.

This role suits someone with strong analytical and research skills, ideally with experience in business performance analysis, strategy, or financial analysis, who enjoys digging into data to find the story behind the numbers rather than just producing dashboards.

Business performance only improves when someone is consistently, rigorously tracking it and asking why the numbers look the way they do, and that's exactly the function this Analyst role performs for talabat's core business. In a company operating across multiple markets and verticals, performance data can easily become noisy or misleading if nobody is actively reconciling it and checking it against business reality, so the quality of this Analyst's work directly affects whether leadership is making decisions based on an accurate picture or a flattering one. Catching a negative trend early — a market where performance is quietly slipping, a metric that's drifting from its historical pattern — gives the business time to respond before the issue becomes a quarter-defining problem, which is a very different outcome than discovering it after the fact. The strategy side of this role also matters: performance analysis that's genuinely insightful, not just descriptive, feeds directly into strategic decisions about where to invest, where to pull back, and what's actually working. Because talabat operates in a competitive, fast-moving quick-commerce and delivery market, having sharp, timely performance analysis isn't a nice-to-have support function, it's one of the inputs that determines how quickly and intelligently the business can respond to a shifting market.

A Business Performance and Strategy Analyst role at talabat gives an analytically minded professional direct exposure to how a major regional consumer technology platform actually tracks and interprets its own performance, which is substantively different experience from performance analysis at a smaller or less data-rich organization. Working with talabat's scale of operational and market data builds genuinely advanced analytical skills — pattern recognition across markets, building frameworks that hold up under real business complexity — that are highly valued in business analytics, strategy, and finance roles across industries. The role also sits at a useful intersection between pure financial analysis and broader business strategy, which means an Analyst here builds a dual skill set that opens doors to either a deeper finance/analytics career path or a pivot toward strategy and business development roles, depending on where interests land. talabat's standing as a leading platform in its space also means strong performance in this role is visible to senior business and strategy leadership, creating a credible path toward senior analyst, strategy manager, or business intelligence leadership roles over time. Working in a fast-growing consumer tech environment additionally offers a pace of learning and exposure to real business decision-making that's hard to replicate in slower-moving industries, which is a genuine career accelerant for analysts early or mid-career. On top of the experience itself, talabat offers competitive regional tech-sector compensation for roles that combine strong analytical rigor with real business impact.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business, or a related analytical field
• Three to five years of experience in business performance analysis, strategy, financial analysis, or a related research role
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including comfort with large or varied datasets
• Experience building performance tracking frameworks or recurring analytical reporting
• Excellent written communication skills for translating data into clear business recommendations
• Proficiency with data analysis tools such as Excel, SQL, or BI platforms