Growth Finance Director

Takeaway.com; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Growth Finance Director to serve as the primary finance partner to the Chief Growth Officer and Growth Leadership Team. In this global role, you will turn performance into insight and capital allocation into sustainable growth from the Amsterdam office.

You will lead a Growth Finance team, drive planning, budgeting and forecasting, and provide visibility into performance across markets and channels to enable timely decisions.

Qualifications

• Senior finance leadership experience in consumer marketplaces, e‑commerce or data‑rich tech.
• Strong commercial judgment with deep expertise in Growth economics and unit economics.
• Proven ability to translate complex data into clear strategic narratives for executives.
• Track record of influencing senior commercial leaders and C-suite stakeholders.
• Experience operating within complex international matrices balancing global and local context.
• Outstanding leadership with a passion for coaching and building teams.
• Pragmatic, action‑oriented mindset for decisions with imperfect information.
• Commitment to understanding internal and external partners to create impact.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary Finance partner to the Chief Growth Officer and Growth Leadership Team.
• Own growth planning, budgeting, forecasting processes.
• Provide actionable visibility into performance across markets, cities and channels.
• Shape capital allocation decisions with transparency on unit economics and trade-offs.
• Own Growth economics framework standards and drive adoption across the org.
• Set practical financial guardrails for material investments.
• Collaborate with Market Finance BPs to align global growth with local economics.
• Partner with Corporate FP&A and Data Science to improve decision-grade models.
• Lead and coach a high-performing Growth Finance team.

Skills

Senior finance leadership

Growth economics

Unit economics

Capital allocation

Data-to-strategy storytelling

C-suite influencing

Matrix leadership

Coaching and team development

Job description

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We're a leading global online 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 the Growth Finance Director, you will act as the primary strategic Finance partner to the Chief Growth Officer and Growth Leadership Team. In this global role, you will lead our efforts to turn performance into insight and capital allocation into sustainable growth.

• Amsterdam Office
• Full time

By embodying our values to lead, deliver, and care, you will bridge commercial ambition and financial discipline. You'll empower your team to collaborate across markets, placing customer-centric growth and team success at the center of every investment decision.

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Serve as primary Finance partner to the Chief Growth Officer, embedding financial thinking into strategic decisions.
• Own the Growth financial narrative and commitments across planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
• Provide actionable visibility into performance across markets, cities, and channels to drive timely interventions.
• Shape major capital allocation decisions by bringing transparency to unit economics, incrementality, and trade-offs.
• Own the standards and adoption of JET's Growth economics framework, continually raising the bar on metrics.
• Set practical financial guardrails for material investments to ensure consistency without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Partner with Market Finance BPs to align global growth priorities with local economics and execution.
• Collaborate with Corporate FP&A and Data Science to continuously improve decision-grade measurement models.
• Lead and coach a high-performing Growth Finance team, helping each other succeed and driving excellence.

What will you bring to the team?

• Senior finance leadership experience within consumer marketplaces, e-commerce, or data-rich tech environments.
• Strong commercial judgment with deep expertise in Growth economics, unit economics, and capital allocation.
• Proven ability to translate complex data into clear strategic narratives that drive executive management action.
• Track record of constructively challenging and influencing senior commercial leaders and C-suite stakeholders.
• Experience operating effectively within complex international matrices, balancing global consistency with local context.
• Outstanding team leadership skills with a passion for coaching talent and building collaborative capabilities.
• Pragmatic, action-oriented mindset with the ability to make sound decisions using imperfect information.
• Dedication to developing a strong understanding of internal and external partners to deliver lasting impact.

At JET, this is how we play

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, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we're building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.