ACCOUNT MANAGER – MIDDLE EAST

JOB DESCRIPTION

JATO are on a mission.

The market in which we operate has been going through some significant change and will continue to transform over the coming years. The way we buy and sell cars is fundamentally different today than it was just a few years ago. The way we use cars, and other forms of transport, will change radically in the next decade – autonomous vehicles, electrification, Mobility as a Service (MaaS).

At JATO, we are passionate about our client’s success, helping them to make wise, data-driven business decisions. Our clients’ success is at the heart of everything we do.

Our clients, suppliers, service providers and our teams work together as the “JATO Family” to deliver innovative solutions that answer our clients’ key business questions.

Our solutions serve as a catalyst for growth and profitability for our clients in the mobility marketplace. OEMs, Leasing/rental providers, Insurers or Digital Marketing/Retailers see us as the one essential global partner delivering solutions, at speed, to meet their needs to power their future decisions. To maintain that position, we must constantly strive to be at the forefront of developments in the market and be so close to our clients that we know what they need to be successful.

Our success, and our clients’ success, can only be achieved through our talented team of people working together around the world, combining their passion and expertise to deliver innovative Solutions as a Service to our clients.

If this sounds appealing to you, read on!

HR Manager needed for a technology company based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on a permanent basis.

Location – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Salary – 25,000-40,000 SAR/month

Skills and experience:

• Excellent knowledge of compliance and local laws in KSA
• Sound knowledge/exposure of the HR processes, policies and sub systems.
• Strong business partner, solution oriented with ability to influence business leaders and other stakeholders
• Demonstrate competence and strong background in employee relations
• Drive and initiative; ability to work in ambiguity
• Excellent Communication & Relationship Building skills
• Negotiation & Conflict resolution skills
• Ability to work with diverse teams and cultural sensitivity
• Arabic speaking is essential

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and support various HR programs/interventions/HR Processes for the unit.
• Drive Local compliance, adherence to Labour Law, Audits, manage employee relations (
• Own and anchor the retention charter for the unit to ensure attrition levels are within targets and under control.
• Design and lead the engagement charters. Facilitate leadership connect for the unit and motivate employees through innovative Rewards & Recognition programs.
• Track trends in employee concerns and proactively address them. Gather feedback through various forums such as FGDs, EPS, 1-1s to build effective solutions and design action plans to bridge the gaps.
• Ensure Business compliance and employment guidelines norms, front ending disciplinary investigations.
• Ensure 100% closure of HR SLAs

Financial Analyst needed for a Crypto start-up on a permanent basis.

Location – Dubai, UAE

Salary – 15,000 AED/month

Skills and experience:

• Excellent excel skills
• Excellent PowerPoint skills
• Experience with financial modelling
• Experience with putting proposals together
• Strong communication skills
• Flexible and detail oriented
• Previous experience within the crypto industry is highly desirable

Responsibilities

• Perform financial reporting and support monthly P&L analysis and financial forecasts
• Facilitate financial review meetings with groups and work with the team to ensure effective finance and cost management.
• Measuring and monitoring of metrics for new business initiatives
• Assist in measuring and reporting progress on key goals for the business team in a timely manner
• Facilitate the business reviews with data analysis and follow through with business leaders on actionable items for improving business metrics
• Perform ad-hoc business analyses, and financial modeling. Present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions, and planned future initiatives

Category Manager (Groceries) needed for a grocery app start-up based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on a permanent basis.

Location – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Salary – 25,000-35,000 SAR/month + ESOP

Skills and experience:

• Experience as a Category Manager or similar role
• Experience in purchasing from wholesalers is essential
• Grocery experience is highly desirable
• Solid knowledge of category management, marketing and sales principles
• Understanding of data analysis and forecasting methods
• Proficient in MS Office
• An analytical mind with a strategic ability
• Excellent communication and people skills
• Arabic language skills are highly desirable

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze data or insights to determine industry and consumer trends
• Devise long-term development strategies for product categories
• Develop exit strategies for unsuccessful products
• Foster trust relationships with vendors to achieve better pricing and quality of services
• Place appropriate orders to ensure product availability that meets consumer demands
• Determine the positioning of a product category to maximize visibility
• Liaise with marketing teams to determine competitive pricing and promotional activities of a product category
• Collaborate with buyers and merchandisers to expand product categories
• Make forecasts for product demand to ensure the sustainability of inventory
• Assume responsibility of budget development and revenue for category

About the role:

We are looking for a  Category Manager to manage a group of products for the company. You will be responsible for the pricing and overall promotion of a product category to maximize consumer appeal. Relationships with vendors and product range management will also be part of your duties.

An excellent manager must have extensive experience in understanding consumer needs and the retail environment. They must have a commercial mindset and full comprehension of marketing and sales principles.

The goal is to increase sales and profitability of business to drive sustainable growth.

Location – Dubai, UAE

Salary – 12,000-15,000 AED/month

Skills and experience:

• Excellent Team player - be an integral part of our small HR team and work closely with HR team members
• Good administrative skills
• Experience within HR
• Strong communication skills
• Flexible and detail oriented
• Must be able to work self-directed and be proactive
• Excellent command of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and Outlook)

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare, store, organize, apply for, renew and cancel UAE Residency Visas and medical insurance policies provided to employees
• Onboarding and off boarding employees
• Ensure an accurate and up-to-date administration of all employee records (i.e. sick leave, holidays, employment agreements, employee performance cycle, HR inbox)
• Administrative tasks: prepare contract, HR letters, etc
• Collect, store and file all employee identification documents, keeping track of documents which have expired or require renewal
• Work together with the HR Business Partner in coordinating the timely and accurate processing of the payroll
• Keep abreast of new processes related to Dubai Development Authority (DDA) operations
• Work with HR Business Partner and Recruitment team to support Recruitment initiatives
• Coordinate facilities for local office: o Work with office assistant to ensure office cleanliness o Work with external contractors for office maintenance
• Coordinate travel for Dubai office (bookings flights, trains, hotels, taxis etc.)
• Work closely with Management with regards to organizing company (personnel) events; Chamber of Commerce
• Monitor, process and renew the company’s trade license, establishment cards and other government permits issued via the DDA

About the role:

An excellent opportunity to further develop as an all-round, HR professional within a fast-growing company and within a dynamic international environment. As a HR Administrator you will work directly with and report into the HR Business Partner (Middle East). This is a generalist position; therefore, you will be working in many different fields of HR.

Please note - due to the number of applications we receive, we will only be able to respond to successful candidates 

Oracle SOA Integration Developer needed for a leading Bank based in Bahrain.

Location – Bahrain

Salary – 2,200 Bahraini Dinar/month + relocation assistance + visa + medical

Length – 1 year contract, likely to be extended or turned to permanent

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and create integration design
• Services and Full lifecycle API Management (design, testing, monitoring, governance, and deployment)
• Collaborate with architects and development team, design and implement integrations according to architectural vision and follow implementation guideline
• Support testing cycles to fix technical errors and bugs

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related IT discipline or professional work experience
• experience in developing integrations using Oracle SOA Suite
• Experience in integration solutions and successful projects
• Experience in PL/SQL, SQL
• Knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture best practices, development methodologies, and standards.
• Working knowledge of deployment process and tools for source control, automated build, and testing.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Due to the number of applications we receive, please note we will only be able to respond to successful applicants

Performance Marketing Executive needed for an E-learning start-up based in Dubai on a permanent basis.

Location – Dubai

Salary – 17,000-22,000 AED/month

Skills and experience

• Experience working within an app-based company within B2C
• Excellent knowledge of Social Pay (Instagram and Facebook)
• Experience working within a hyper-growth start-up is highly desirable
• Previous experience working within an E-learning company is highly desirable

• In-depth knowledge of digital marketing techniques
• Experience with creating campaigns

• Experience in managing a big budget and global campaigns
• Experience building effective multi-channel marketing strategies, including affiliate marketing, PPC and Social
• Solid expertise in campaign and channel analysis and reporting, including Google Analytics experience
• Excellent analytical skills and leverage data, metric, analytics and consumer behavior trends to drive actionable insights & recommendations

Key Responsibilities

• Create and executing a strong performance marketing strategy & execution plan
• Develop and manage digital prospecting and remarketing campaigns
• Managing budgets and campaigns across all digital channels to drive strong return on investment and efficient CAC
• Ensure successful planning, execution, optimization for key traffic KPIs via paid, organic & own media channels
• Identify and testing new channels to continue to meet or exceed established critical metrics
• Work closely with the management to share funnel conversion improvement ideas, feedback & present results.

About the role

Performance Marketing Executive needed to oversee the development and implementation of the company’s online marketing strategies. They are an E-Learning Platform with a focus on Psychology, Mindfulness and Spirituality. In this role, you will be responsible for optimizing marketing strategies with the content and marketing team, managing the company’s social media platform, identifying marketplace trends, and working together with the SEO and content team.

Senior Digital Marketing Manager needed for an E-learning start-up based in Dubai on a permanent basis.

Location – Dubai

Salary – 22,000-28,000 AED/month

Skills and experience

• Experience managing a team
• Good knowledge of online and offline marketing
• Experience working within an app-based company within B2C
• Experience working within a hyper-growth start-up is highly desirable
• Previous experience working within an E-learning company is highly desirable

• In-depth knowledge of digital marketing techniques
• Experience with social media networking and advertising
• Knowledge of digital marketing tools, SEO best practices, and brand exposure techniques
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledge of the latest technology and trends within the industry
• Good interpersonal skills

Key Responsibilities

• Meeting with the performance, SEO and content team to discuss digital marketing strategies
• Designing and implementing online marketing strategies across all digital platforms
• Managing the company’s social media platform and web advertising
• Developing social media strategies
• Identifying the latest trends and technology within the industry
• Analyzing site traffic including click navigation, shopping patterns, and purchase conversion
• Assessing the online user experience and developing strategies to increase NPS
• Maintaining customer communications with weekly reports, news articles, and industry guides
• Monitoring and maintaining the media budget
• Preparing and presenting digital marketing reports

About the role

The Senior Marketing Manager will oversee the development and implementation of the company’s online marketing strategies. They are an E-Learning Platform with a focus on Psychology, Mindfulness and Spirituality. In this role, you will be responsible for discussing marketing strategies with the content and marketing team, managing the company’s social media platform, identifying marketplace trends, and working together with the SEO and Performance team.

To ensure success, you should have in-depth knowledge of digital marketing strategies, excellent project-management skills, and advanced knowledge of social media trends. A top-class Digital marketing manager drives sales by evaluating current market trends and creating specialized campaigns for associated target groups.

We are looking for an experienced IT Project Manager for an Ed-Tech start-up based in Dubai on a permanent basis.

Location – Dubai, UAE

Salary – 20,000 AED/month

Skills and experience

• Experience in a fast-paced environment within a Project Manager position
• Experience working on large-scale projects
• Experience managing large-size tech teams
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification would be desirable
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively
• Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
• Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
• Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the business team to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business environment
• Engage in and improve our Digital product solutions — design, deployment, operation and continuous improvement
• Participate in organization and maintenance of the system security
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Engage with key vendors in assessing technology fit with company’s future technology architecture and provide recommendations
• Determine and define project scope and objectives
• Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner;
• Prepare budget based on scope of work and resource requirements
• Track project costs in order to meet budget
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
• Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
• Manage contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables;
• Utilize industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution
• Monitor progress and make adjustments as needed
• Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement

About the role:

Plan and oversee projects to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion and within budget. Platform include web platform and native applications. The Project Manager plan and designate project resources, prepare budgets, monitor progress, and keep stakeholders informed the entire way. This is all done within the confines of a company's goals and vision. Project manager is needed on a wide variety of topics, including IT, HR, and marketing.

 We are seeking a creative, enthusiastic Backend Engineer to join a startup in the Health and Mindfulness learning platform.

As the Backend Engineer, you would be developing the custom e-learning platform from scratch. Platform include web platforms and native applications.

The Backend Engineer would be responsible for a software development project from scratch, including developing APIs and microservices infrastructure for our apps, and finding innovative ways to handle our scalability challenges. Backend Senior engineer will build and integrate scalable backend systems, platforms, and tools which will help us achieve our mission of improving lives through learning. As a start-up initiative, the incumbent should be comfortable solving a wide range of dynamic issues.

Location: Remote position, HQ based in Dubai

Salary: $5000 - $6000 USD p/month

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics)

• Experience in developing e-learning platforms, social networks apps and video streaming platforms;

• 5+ years of professional software development experience

• NextJS, NestJS, TypeScript, JS

• GraphQL

• OpenShift, Kubernetes, Kafka

• Experience microservices architecture

• Experience with development of high-load services

• Experience in leading the projects

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop the custom e-learning platform from scratch

• Identify and evaluate new technologies that improve the performance and robustness of our backend software

• Engage with key vendors in assessing technology fit with company’s future technology architecture and provide recommendations;

• Create sustainable systems and services through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity;

• Run the Code Review;

• Devise solutions to performance and scalability challenges as our customer data set continues to grow

• Own relationships with other engineering teams

• Serve as a technical lead for various projects/tasks as needed

• Contribute to a team culture that values inclusiveness and quality while fostering innovation

• Planning, organizing, and getting work done in 2-week sprints

• Mentoring team members in software development best practices and processes

Please note - due to the number of applications we receive, we will only be able to respond to successful candidates