Growth Manager (Generalist)

Adevinta; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Barcelona office presence

Personal development budget

International, high-autonomy team

Job summary

Seventh Wave, part of Adevinta, seeks a strategic professional to own commercial initiatives from discovery to delivery in a marketplace environment. This role focuses on applying AI to transform commercial functions and growth across our Barcelona office.

You will work closely with senior leaders, leveraging data, customer insights, and market understanding to identify opportunities and shape actionable plans. English fluency and a startup/consulting background are valued.

Qualifications

• Clear thinking and structured problem solving.
• Ownership and accountability in delivery.
• Curiosity and willingness to experiment with AI.
• Strong teamwork and communication.
• 1–2 years in strategy consulting or startup/scale-up.
• Fluent English communication.

Responsibilities

• Own commercial initiatives from idea to delivery, shaped by priorities and strengths.
• Identify growth opportunities using commercial data, customer research and market insight.
• Develop the approach and translate insights into a practical plan and go-to-market.
• Test the opportunity by designing experiments with product, marketing and data teams.
• Lead delivery, coordinate teams/partners and ensure launch and results.
• Reinvent commercial work with AI by turning insights into tools/workflows used daily.
• Scale successful initiatives into reusable tools, playbooks and shared capabilities across teams.

Skills

Clear thinking

Ownership

Curiosity

Teamwork

Experience

Communication

Job description

Job Description

Seventh Wave is part of Adevinta, one of the world's leading online classifieds groups. We're a small, exceptionally talented team at the frontier of AI deployment, pushing the boundaries of how classifieds businesses operate at scale. We build, shape, and run these businesses end-to-end, driven by an owner-founder mindset from day one. Joining us now means joining early and having a direct hand in shaping our growth journey.

Across Adevinta, our marketplaces reach more than 100 million users every month. Backed by an investor consortium including Blackstone, Permira and General Atlantic, the group brings together leading marketplaces such as mobile.de and Kleinanzeigen in Germany, leboncoin in France, Marktplaats in the Netherlands, Subito in Italy and Kijiji in Canada.

Why join us

• Own commercial initiatives from the start.
• Learn directly from experienced business leaders.
• Grow towards business leadership.
• Put AI to work at marketplace scale.
• Build repeatable capabilities.
• Help build Seventh Wave from the start.

Job Requirements

• Clear thinking. You break unfamiliar problems into clear questions, challenge assumptions and use evidence to reach a sound decision. You recognise which details matter and turn your reasoning into a practical course of action.
• Drive and ownership. You set yourself demanding goals, take initiative and follow through when the work becomes difficult. You take responsibility for the result and find ways to keep moving.
• Curiosity and learning. You get up to speed quickly in unfamiliar areas and actively experiment with AI and new tools. You use feedback and evidence to improve how you work.
• Teamwork. You help colleagues succeed, challenge ideas constructively and welcome the same in return. You are reliable about commitments and open about problems.
• Relevant experience. You bring around 1-2 years in strategy consulting, ideally at McKinsey, BCG or Bain, or in a startup or scale-up. Experience in both environments, including through internships, is a plus.
• Clear communication. You communicate fluently in English and explain complex ideas clearly to colleagues and partners.

Job Responsibilities

You'll own commercial initiatives from the first idea through to delivery, with scope shaped by business priorities and your strengths.

• Drive commercial transformation. Work alongside the commercial transformation lead and local management across three focus areas: strategy (including product), monetization and go-to-market. Own initiatives that grow the business and improve how its commercial functions operate.
• Find the next growth opportunities. Build a clear understanding of the business through commercial data, customer research and market insight, then identify and prioritize the opportunities with the greatest potential.
• Develop the approach. Turn insights into a proposition and practical plan—from an innovative business model to a new go-to-market approach. Define the customer value, commercial goals and resources needed to deliver it.
• Test the opportunity. Design and run experiments with product, marketing and data teams to test demand, compare approaches and decide what to pursue.
• Lead delivery. Bring initiatives to market, coordinate teams and partners, and take responsibility for launch, adoption and results. Use performance data to keep improving after launch.
• Reinvent commercial work with AI. Experiment with AI in areas such as customer acquisition, sales and pricing, then turn useful applications into tools and workflows teams use every day.
• Scale what works. Turn successful initiatives into reusable tools, playbooks and shared capabilities, and help other marketplace teams put them into practice.

Job Benefits

• Compensation. A highly competitive all-in salary package, with no performance-based bonuses.
• Location. We work in person at our Barcelona office, with occasional travel to our marketplaces depending on your role and scope.
• Development. A personal development budget and hands-on experience across different marketplaces and areas of the business.
• Environment. An international team with high standards, substantial autonomy and real responsibility for what we deliver.