Manager – CEO Office, Corporate Strategy and Strategic Initiatives – Talabat

talabat is hiring a Manager for its CEO Office, Corporate Strategy and Strategic Initiatives team in Dubai, a role positioned right at the center of how the company’s top leadership sets direction and tracks follow-through. This is a high-visibility strategy role working directly with the CEO, CFO, and senior leadership across one of the region’s best-known consumer tech platforms.

The work spans helping shape talabat’s strategic roadmap, coordinating cross-functional initiatives that leadership has prioritized, and making sure strategic decisions actually translate into execution rather than staying as slide decks. That means a mix of structured analysis, stakeholder coordination across business units, and a fair amount of judgment about which initiatives need the CEO Office’s direct attention versus which can run independently with lighter oversight.

Because this role sits inside the CEO Office rather than a single business unit, the Manager will be expected to operate with real breadth, engaging with teams across talabat’s different verticals and markets, and to communicate clearly and credibly with senior leadership on a regular basis.

This is a strong fit for someone with a strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or similar high-rigor analytical background who wants to apply those skills inside a fast-moving, large-scale consumer technology business rather than from the outside looking in.

A CEO Office strategy function exists because even the clearest strategic vision falls apart if nobody is tracking whether it's actually being executed, and this Manager role is one of the people whose job is to make sure talabat's strategic priorities don't just live in leadership conversations but turn into coordinated action across the business. Working this close to the CEO and CFO means decisions made or informed in this role have outsized reach — a strategic recommendation that shapes resource allocation or market prioritization here can influence how multiple business units operate for quarters at a time. The cross-functional coordination part of the job matters just as much as the analytical part, because large consumer platforms like talabat run many parallel initiatives across verticals and markets, and without someone actively connecting those dots at the CEO Office level, strategic priorities compete with each other instead of reinforcing one another. There's also a credibility function built into this role: when strategic initiatives are tracked and reported accurately to senior leadership, it builds the kind of trust that lets leadership delegate more and intervene less, which is good for organizational speed. In a business operating at talabat's scale and pace, having rigorous, well-coordinated strategic follow-through at the CEO Office level is a genuine competitive advantage, not just good internal process.

Few roles offer the combination of strategic scope and direct senior leadership exposure that a CEO Office strategy position provides, and that combination is exactly why this kind of role is often a deliberate career accelerant for people coming from strategy consulting or corporate strategy backgrounds. Working directly with talabat's CEO and CFO on strategic initiatives gives a Manager visibility into executive decision-making that most mid-career professionals don't get access to until much later, and that exposure builds both strategic judgment and an understanding of how a major consumer technology platform actually operates at the highest level. talabat's position as one of the region's leading delivery and quick-commerce platforms also means the strategic problems tackled here are genuinely substantial — market expansion, competitive positioning, cross-vertical integration — rather than incremental, which makes for a much richer strategic portfolio to draw on in future roles. This kind of CEO Office experience is also highly portable: the skills built here — structured strategic thinking, cross-functional coordination at scale, and comfort operating with senior executives — translate directly into future general management, strategy leadership, or even C-suite track roles across industries, not just within consumer tech. Beyond the strategic experience itself, talabat offers competitive compensation for the regional tech sector and the kind of fast career progression that comes from being visible to, and trusted by, the most senior leadership in the company from early in a tenure.

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent advanced degree is an advantage
• Minimum six years of experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or a comparable high-rigor analytical role
• Strong structured problem-solving and strategic analysis skills
• Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives involving senior stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort presenting to C-level executives
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-ambiguity environment with shifting priorities