E-Commerce Specialist - Kuwait

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At Arla, we do so much more than make some of the world’s favourite dairy products. We make healthy taste delicious, mornings worth getting up for and family dinners unforgettable. Puck, Dano, Lurpak and Castello – names like these make us a vital, natural part of modern life in over 100 countries around the world. There are 1,200 employees in the Middle East and Africa and 19,000 global employees at the heart of our business. Every single one of us plays an important role and together we build on our 10bn Euros turnover and establish our position as one of the largest dairy companies in the world.

Are you passionate about driving e-commerce growth and shaping the future of online retail? Arla Foods Kuwait is seeking an experienced E-Commerce Specialist to join our dynamic team. As an E-Commerce Specialist, you will play a key role in developing and executing our e-commerce market strategy, driving forward our e-commerce capabilities, and establishing strong relationships with our e-commerce customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive e-commerce capabilities and e-retail growth in the designated market, collaborating with the Head of Sales/Sales Leadership to set objectives and targets.
• Develop and execute the e-commerce market strategy, aligning it with the European e-commerce strategy and market sales strategy.
• Establish strong relationships and secure e-commerce commercial agreements with customers, aligned with overarching customer agreements and ensure plan delivery through customer teams.
• Establish and reinforce ways of working with e-commerce in the designated market, including processes across commercial and the wider business.
• Lead market e-commerce projects, ensuring relevant investments and implementation across the business.
• Monitor e-commerce trends and initiate market initiatives to capitalize on new opportunities.
• Support e-commerce delivery against short, medium, and long-term cross-functional goals, ensuring buy-in and alignment across all functions, including supply chain and logistics.
• Align with Zone/Global functions and contribute to the effective launch of initiatives according to plan and targets.
• Support the delivery of key e-commerce priorities and requirements for channel-ready production/logistics, using inputs from retail and industry sources.
• Drive internal engagement and alignment with future production/logistics requirements at the market/global level, including alignment with Calcium objectives and the Supply Chain strategy.

Educational Background/Experience:

Your track record reflects solid experience within Kuwait in terms ecommerce within an FMCG environment. You have strong business acumen and exceptional drive, and you are willing to go the extra mile to deliver results. You are adept at developing strategic relationships with customers, translating into growth-driving JBPs. Your strong analytical abilities enable you to interpret and commercialize category and shopper insights, and you are able to demonstrate delivery of initiatives that have resulted in brand and/or category growth. You must have a strong entrepreneurial spirit, with the skills to collaborate and lead within a matrix team. Among colleagues you are characterized as a great communicator, decision-maker with personal impact and a good deal of resilience, and excellent planning and organizing skills

Join our team and be part of shaping the future of e-commerce at Arla Foods Kuwait. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, along with opportunities for growth and development within our organization.

We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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