Global Grocery Category Lead – Strategic Partnerships

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Wealden; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a strategic Category Lead for Global Grocery Sales. You will acquire, manage, and develop partnerships with major grocers worldwide, shaping the P&T roadmap and driving agentic category management across markets.

You’ll collaborate with Local Account Management, Tech, Marketing, Legal and Logistics to deliver a winning grocery proposition. You will own the growth plan for global grocery accounts, translate partner needs into BRDs, and influence executive

Qualifications

• Proven ability to close enterprise deals and drive fast, hands-on implementation.
• Extensive experience in account management or business development in FMCG or Retail, preferably at a global level.
• Commercially savvy with strong influencing skills and ability to craft clear narratives.
• Experience in building positive relationships and handling stakeholders across different departments and at all levels within the organisation.
• Data-driven, goes to the root cause, uses relevant data to make decisions and provide insights.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and execution of the commercial strategy of the grocery category, while defining the required new cross-functional capabilities.
• Assume P&L responsibility for your global grocery accounts, with a clear growth plan.
• Drive agentic category management capability development and adoption.
• Work closely with the local Heads of Retail of 15 Markets to drive your strategy into action with executional excellence and based on solid analytics from your part.
• Carefully manage a senior set of stakeholders across a matrix-led organisation
• Author BRDs that translate partner commercial needs into actionable P&T roadmap items, and drive them through the roadmap.
• Engage JET functions such as account management, marketing, operations, and logistics to develop capabilities, improving shopping and user experience within your vertical.
• Represent JET at industry events with superior networking skills.

Skills

Enterprise deals

Account management

FMCG experience

Data-driven

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Negotiation

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a strategic Category Lead for Global Grocery Sales. You will acquire, manage, and develop partnerships with major grocers worldwide, shaping the P&T roadmap and driving agentic category management across markets.

You’ll collaborate with Local Account Management, Tech, Marketing, Legal and Logistics to deliver a winning grocery proposition. You will own the growth plan for global grocery accounts, translate partner needs into BRDs, and influence executive