Sr Category Leader - Independent Grocery Partners

Just Eat Takeaway.com; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global online food delivery platform as a Senior Category Leader in the Global Grocery Sales Team. You will enhance visibility and performance of independent grocery partners, manage P&L, and collaborate with various stakeholders to drive strategy and execution. This role requires strong analytical skills, commercial acumen, and the ability to inspire change within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build and execute commercial strategy.
• Extensive experience in account management and sales steering.
• High energy and resilience with a 'get it done' personality.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the commercial strategy for independent grocery category.
• P&L responsibility for global independent grocery estate.
• Work closely with local Heads of Retail to drive strategy into action.

Skills

Commercial strategy

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Sales strategy

Influencing skills

Education

Management/Strategy consulting background

Job description

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role:

As Senior Category Leader in the Global Grocery Sales Team, you are the MD of our independent grocery partner estate. Your core responsibility is to enhance visibility and commercial performance of our independent grocery partners and you own the related P&L globally. You will identify the best partners on our platform and help them stand out to consumers even better.

You are a confident and thoughtful communicator, able to turn solid, data-driven insights into real-world impact through others. You possess a high level of energy, which can be used to inspire and influence multiple stakeholders towards making change. You are genuinely passionate about the future of on-demand grocery and excited about building something from the ground up as part of a global team.

These are some of the key ingredients to the role:

• Develop and execute the commercial strategy of independent grocery category, while defining the required new cross-functional capabilities;
• P&L responsibility for global independent grocery estate, with a clear growth plan;
• 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
• Engage JET functions such as tech, marketing, operations and logistics to develop company capabilities improving the shopping and selling experience within your vertical;
• Represent JET at industry events with superior networking skills.

What will you bring to the table?

• Proven ability to build commercial strategy based on solid analytics and implement it through diligent execution;
• High energy, autonomy and resilience with a “get it done” personality, striving as member of a high-performing team;
• Extensive experience in account management at scale, sales steering, sales strategy, preferably at Global level, with Management/Strategy consulting background;
• 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 root cause, uses relevant data to take decisions and provide insights;

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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