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Category Lead - Global Grocery

Just Eat Takeaway.com

Amsterdam
Full-time
5-10 years experience
On-site

Key Skills

Account Management
Business Development
FMCG
Retail
Strategic Planning
Stakeholder Management
Data Analysis
P&L Management
Category Management
Enterprise Sales
Project Management
Cross-functional Collaboration
Negotiation
Communication
Analytical Skills

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 Category Lead in the Global Grocery Sales Team, your core responsibility is to acquire, manage, and develop partnerships with some of the largest grocers across the globe, ensuring JET delivers a winning proposition to its consumers. Based on these partnerships, you drive the development of the grocery category consumer proposition and define business requirements that shape the P&T roadmap, while driving the adoption of agentic category management. You work cross-functionally with Local Account Management, Tech, Marketing, Legal, and Logistics teams. You will also own/contribute to capability-building programs to support the global strategy and local teams.


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 components to the position:

  • 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 Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) that translate partner commercial needs (e.g., new promotion mechanics, ETA improvements, integration requirements) into actionable P&T roadmap items, and actively drive them through the roadmap and prioritisation process; 

  • Engage JET functions such as account management, marketing, operations, and logistics to develop company capabilities, improving the shopping and user experience within your vertical;

  • Represent JET at industry events with superior networking skills.

What will you bring to the team? 

  • Proven ability to close enterprise deals and drive fast, hands-on implementation;

  • High energy, autonomy, and resilience with a “get it done” personality, striving as a member of a high-performing team;

  • 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.


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. Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side. At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again. 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.


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.


What else is cooking?
Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels.


Are you ready to take your seat?


Apply now! 


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Core Responsibilities

The Category Lead will acquire and manage partnerships with global grocers while driving the development of the grocery category consumer proposition. They will also assume P&L responsibility for global accounts and collaborate cross-functionally to execute commercial strategies across 15 markets.

Requirements

The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in account management or business development within the FMCG or retail sectors. They must demonstrate a proven ability to close enterprise deals, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders in a matrix-led organization.

About Just Eat Takeaway.com

Industry: Software Development

Company size: 10,001+ employees

Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) is a global leader in on-demand delivery headquartered in Amsterdam. In our seamless ecosystem, we connect partners with AI-first technology to scale, offer couriers the flexibility and opportunities they need, while consumers experience the freedom to stay just where they are. The company leverages data intelligence to power smarter logistics and connect 362,000 partners with millions of users worldwide to deliver hyper-local hyper-personalised experiences. Operating across 14 countries, Just Eat Takeaway.com is committed to sustainable, tech-led growth, raising the bar on execution and leveraging the strength of the Prosus ecosystem. For our latest career opportunities: https://careers.justeattakeaway.com

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