Associate Inventory Controller
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Talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide.
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Company Description
Talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door.
We operate in around 65 countries worldwide.
Headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.
Job Description** **Role Summary
- The Inventory Controller oversees inventory performance across multiple stores, ensuring strong stock
- governance in both 3PL and owned distribution centers as well as dark stores.
- The role is accountable for
- maintaining high inventory accuracy, controlling shrinkage, optimizing stock levels, and standardizing
- processes across countries.
- This position acts as a central control tower, driving alignment between supply chain, warehouse
- operations, finance, commercial, and store teams to protect margin and improve working capital
- efficiency.
- What's on your plate?
- Maintain accurate inventory records through regular reconciliation of physical and system stock
- Identify, analyze, and resolve stock variances and shrinkage trendsLead cycle counts, full stocktakes, and ad hoc physical verifications
- Monitor stock cover and Days on Hand to prevent overstocking or stockouts
- Manage slow movers, discontinued items, and excess inventory
- Coordinate closely with warehouse and 3PL partners to ensure proper receiving, QC, picking, and dispatch controls
- Oversee return processes, transfers, and supplier-related adjustments
- Conduct SKU-level analysis to highlight risks and improvement areas
- Prepare clear inventory performance reports for management
- Support the month-end closing and reconciliation with finance
- **Qualifications** **What did we order?**
- You have at least 4+ years of experience in Inventory management
- You are very detail-oriented, structured and know how to prioritize * - you consider yourself as someone who delivers solutions and not bottlenecks to be solved.
- You are able to interact with senior-level executives and can manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders.
- You are someone energized by the unknown and look forward to learning each day on the job.
- You have excellent analytical and communication skills, and always like to be hands-on with several tools.
- Additionally, you have robust interpersonal and intercultural skills. You can inspire several teams and stakeholders to rally behind a mission.
- Language skills: Fluent English and Arabic would be highly advantageous.
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