Senior Manager, Arab Market Business Lead – Israel

The role

Own Wolt Israel's business in the Arab market, including strategy, growth and results across consumers, merchants and couriers. Lead the existing Arab market team and link Wolt Israel's management with this market.

What you will do

• Own the Arab market business plan and its results: users, orders, frequency, merchants and economics
• Define strategy: which regions, segments and categories to prioritize and in what order
• Evaluate performance continuously and adjust based on data and competition
• Run a regular operating cadence (weekly performance review, forecasts, OKRs) and hold teams accountable
• Lead the Arab market team and the sales and account manager teams serving the market
• Raise penetration, frequency and retention; compete for share against local players
• Lead acquisition and growth of local restaurants, retailers and SMBs; open chain and enterprise partnerships
• Align Merchant, Marketing, Operations, Supply, Product, Analytics, Finance and Legal behind one plan
• Adapt Wolt's Israel playbook to Arab-Israeli customers and build new playbooks where none exist
• Build and maintain a network of community, municipal, business and civic leaders

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of professional experience, including 5+ years of people leadership
• Fluent Hebrew, Arabic and strong professional English
• Proven record of building or scaling a business line, market or product from an early stage
• Hands-on experience with merchants, SMBs and/or enterprise clients in B2B
• Strategic thinking and the ability to drive a plan to results against clear metrics
• Financial and analytical acumen: managing through data, funnels and unit economics
• Strong, credible network in the Arab-Israeli community across several regions
• Experience working closely with Marketing and directing it toward business outcomes
• Strong cross-functional leadership without relying on formal authority
• Working understanding of apps and platforms, and basics of logistics and delivery operations
• Entrepreneurial, ownership-driven approach
• Ability to use AI tools to strengthen commercial and operational performance and drive AI adoption across the team

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with tools such as Claude
• A degree in business, economics or a related field
• Experience in a global or matrixed organization

Benefits

• Work in a fast-moving scaleup backed by DoorDash
• Build a new market from the ground up
• Take ownership and make a visible difference

Before you apply

• Recruiters will never ask you to pay money or share sensitive financial information during hiring

About the company

Wolt brings delivery of restaurant food and (almost) everything to over 500 cities in over 30 countries. In 2022 it joined forces with DoorDash.