Barista

About the opportunity

We’re looking for a Barista to join the team and focus on growing our own Grocery Store “tMart”, which is the region’s first cloud store concept offering 30-minutedelivery of groceries at hypermarket prices. The service has expanded rapidly across Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and Iraq!

• Makes all coffee, drinks and food to standards – adheres to recipe specifications, Barista Workbook and food skills
• Recognizes every ingredient and can make every recipe
• Follow recipe cards to standards
• Ensures speed and quality of service standards are always maintained
• Works efficiently to prepare orders and delivers to standard to every order
• Labels and stores products correctly and in the right conditions
• FIFO – displays older food first. Rotates stock so food and drinks are always fresh

What you need to be successful

• At least 2 years of being a barista
• 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.
• Additionally, you have robust interpersonal and intercultural skills. You can inspire several teams and stakeholders to rally behind a mission.
• 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.
• Language skills: Fluent English and Arabic would be highly advantageous.
• Deals correctly with out of date products
• Maintains high standards of cleanliness in fridges, freezers/ storage areas
• Check and Receive deliveries
• Cleanliness of Workstation: Maintains High Food and Hygiene Standards (cleanliness & temp checks)
• Displays organized using planograms and standards manuals
• Ensures 100% product availability to range parameters
• Prepares drinks and food to Everyday Coffee standards and record temperature

Who we are

When you think of food delivery in the MENA region, we’d be pretty surprised if talabat didn’t pop into your mind first! Since delivering our first order in Kuwait in 2004, we’ve grown quite a lot over the past 17 years.

Today, we deliver hundreds of millions of food orders, grocery items and other products per year, to our customers in nine countries throughout the region with more than 3,000+ employees! Our food delivery business works with over 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches, while our q-commerce concept, talabat mart, now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman Qatar, and the UAE in 30 minutes or less!

Our philosophy is to make sure we do what is right for our ecosystem - our customers, our partners, our people, our riders, and the communities in which we operate. Our #techforgood program allows our customers a safe and convenient way to contribute to important causes in their community through donating to local and international charities directly on talabat with a focus on food insecurity in the region. Since its inception in 2020, we have facilitated the donation of well over 1 million meals to those in need, as well as donated over $1.5 million to charity with the help of our partners and customers. talabat is part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food delivery and q-commerce.

As Talabat continues to grow and keep ahead of the curve we have launched our very own end-end grocery service across the MENA region: tMart