Business Strategy Manager London, England
Job description
Our mission is to be the definitive food company. We are transforming the way the world eats by making food more convenient and accessible. We give people the opportunity to eat what they want, when and where they want.
The Strategy and Initiatives team helps resolve the most exciting and important issues facing the business and pursue our biggest opportunities. You will work with senior leaders, integrate across departments, have experience solving important business problems, bring new insight and lead with pace.
UK & Ireland is the domestic region and the largest business for Deliveroo, and is at the forefront of strategic, commercial and operational innovation.
What you'll do
You will report to the Senior Business Strategy Manager and work with commercial leadership to think through some of our most important relationships with restaurants: how we help them succeed, prioritise the portfolio, optimise negotiations and improve commercial outcomes.
You will be at the forefront of what makes Deliveroo great to work at: driving and responding to high growth, leading change, being analytical, and improving outcomes for our consumers, restaurants and riders. This role is based in London and has a hybrid working model.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Strategy: You will support the formulation of the long-term strategy for the UK and Ireland, and structuring its successful implementation and execution.
- Initiatives and programmes: spotting opportunities, and working them up into new experiments, projects and major cross-cutting programmes and leading their execution. You will work with commercial team members to cut across silos. Over time, you will become our foremost expert on the topics you lead.
- Commercial support: You will feed into the most important restaurant deals, and creating deal frameworks, and helping think through the different goals of restaurants and Deliveroo.
- Performance improvement: the separate Strategy and Finance team creates the quarterly and annual budgets, with strategic input. Your role will be to think more holistically about drivers of over/underperformance, and how we respond to them.
Requirements
- You will have 2 or more years experience in an analytical, fast-pace role - for example, at a management consultancy, or boutique consultancy focusing on commercial topics (e.g., retail, FMCG)
- You will have experience solving problems, from structuring issues to designing work streams
- You will have Experience working with senior leadership or leadership experience
- You will have data oriented and you will have experience with quantitive analysis.
- You will have a commercial mindset
- You will lead teams without authority
You will also ideally have some of:
- Relevant sector expertise, for example in restaurants and hospitality, online marketplaces, hyperlocal businesses, retail, etc.
- Commercial expertise: commercial optimisation, experience with negotiations B2B sales, telesales and field sales optimisation
- SQL proficiency
- Background in econometrics or statistics (there is a separate data science team)
Why Deliveroo?
Our mission is to be the definitive food company. We are transforming the way the world eats by making food more convenient and accessible. We give people the opportunity to eat what they want, when and where they want it.
We are a technology-driven company at the forefront of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world. We are still a small team, making a very large impact, looking to answer some of the most interesting questions out there. We move fast, value autonomy, and we are always looking for new ideas.
Workplace & Diversity
At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer many great benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.
We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing startups in an exciting space.
