Senior Supply Associate

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East — making it easy to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Our purpose is simple: to simplify and improve people’s lives and build an awesome organisation that inspires.</span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since 2012, Careem has enabled earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of more than 70 million customers, and built a platform where the region’s best talent and entrepreneurs thrive. We operate in 70+ cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong data-stringify-type="bold"><em data-stringify-type="italic">We’re now entering our next chapter — one powered by AI. We’re looking for AI talent: curious problem-solvers who know how to apply AI to build tools, automate workflows, and create real impact. Whether it’s streamlining operations, enhancing customer experience, or reimagining internal systems — we want people who can make Careem work smarter and move faster.</em></strong></span></p></div><div id="message-list_1781612598.842119"> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div><strong><br>About the team</strong><br><br>Careem Grocery is on a mission to reinvent the way people shop for groceries, pharmacy items, and retail products. As an exciting new vertical within Careem — a startup within a startup — we are in the early stages of building our product and facing a wide range of meaningful and fundamental challenges. Our goal is to achieve rapid growth and deliver a delightful experience for our customers across the region.<br><br><strong><br>About the role</strong><br><br>We are looking for a highly organized and detail-oriented Supply Chain Coordinator to join our Grocery team. Based in Karachi, this role will support the Careem Grocery operations remotely across UAE. You will play a critical role in ensuring inventory availability, coordinating with suppliers and internal stakeholders, and driving efficient supply chain processes.<br><br><strong><br>What you'll do</strong></div> <ul> <li>Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers to ensure timely product availability and delivery</li> <li>Collaborate with demand planning, commercial, and supply chain teams to maintain optimal inventory levels and assortment</li> <li>Conduct regular supplier performance reviews and identify opportunities for improvement</li> <li>Proactively resolve supplier issues and disputes</li> <li>Manage delivery schedules between distribution centers (DC), suppliers, and stores to enable seamless inventory transfer</li> <li>Coordinate timely returns of damaged, expired, or non-usable items from stores back to suppliers</li> <li>Maintain and update SKU master-data to ensure accurate product information across systems</li> <li>Investigate non-delivered items through root cause analysis (RCA) and implement actions to improve fill-rates and reduce out-of-stock situations</li> <li>Oversee promotional stock transfers across DCs, suppliers, and stores to ensure high availability during campaigns</li> </ul> <div><br><br><strong>What you'll need</strong></div> <ul> <li>Minimum 2+ years of experience in a supply chain or similar operational role; experience in tech, logistics, or startups is a plus</li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably with a focus on Supply Chain or Operations Management</li> <li>Strong analytical skills and advanced proficiency in Excel; SQL knowledge is a bonus</li> <li>High attention to detail and the ability to follow up rigorously on daily operations</li> <li>Grit and a hands-on mindset to tackle challenges head-on and drive execution</li> <li>Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work across supplier and DC operational teams</li> <li>Self-starter attitude with the ability to independently extract and analyze data to support decisions</li> </ul> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <p><strong>What we’ll provide you</strong></p> <p>We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.</li> <li>Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.</li> <li>Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.</li> <li>Work 4 days a week in office &amp; 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)</li> <li>Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.</li> </ul> <br><strong>Location</strong>: Karachi, with remote support responsibilities for Grocery operations in UAE</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div id="message-list_1781636400000.C0BATRZL2JZ"></div> </div>