
Jafar Najafli
Co-founder · Group Senior Manager, Footprint Strategy at Delivery Hero
Connect on LinkedInBerlin-based urban planner with 9 years of deep GIS expertise and global location-strategy leadership across retail, quick commerce and urban development. Studied City and Regional Planning at Yıldız Technical University; MSc from Istanbul Technical University in spatial analytics, location strategy and real-estate development. Recognition & languages: Winner of the 2024 Yukselish (Ascension) National Competition in strategic project management out of 16,000 participants. Speaks English, German, Turkish, Azerbaijani and Russian.
- Footprint optimization at scale: As Group Senior Manager at Delivery Hero, leads footprint optimization across 65 countries after architecting the company's proprietary location intelligence platform — already powering 90+ strategic openings and closures and over €16M in annual savings.
- Quick-commerce growth leadership: At Getir, led a 10-person GIS team that scaled the dark-store network to 153 sites across 9 countries, lifting site profitability by 40% and cutting the site-selection cycle by 35%.
- Public-sector & smart-city delivery: At KEYM (Turkey's leading urban renewal center), delivered 40+ spatial risk and real-estate evaluations across 9 municipal projects in Turkey and Uzbekistan, and led the Tashkent Urban Transformation initiative — securing €4.6M in development funding.








