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:
The Global Sales Strategy team is a driving force behind growth and transformation at Just Eat Takeaway. We unlock commercial opportunities across markets, lead high-impact initiatives, and ensure our sales function remains market leading.
As a Principal, you’ll take ownership of strategic programmes from concept to execution, shaping our commercial strategy, optimizing operations, and driving measurable business growth. This high-visibility and critical role will allow you to influence senior leadership, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and deliver global change in a multi-billion euro organisation.
These are some of the key ingredients to the role:
- Driving Transformation: Lead critical components of a multi-year transformation programme to maximise the impact of our sales function. From strategy development to implementation, you’ll ensure seamless delivery of initiatives that shape the future of our commercial operations;
- Enhancing the Operating Model: Redesign and implement a best-in-class sales operating model, with a particular focus on how we can leverage the best of AI and digital to enhance our service offer
- Optimizing Cost of Sales: Conduct detailed analyses to uncover inefficiencies and identify high-impact investment opportunities, delivering measurable ROI and strengthening the bottom line;
- Engaging Senior Stakeholders: Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, from country executives to ExCo members. Present data-driven insights, align on priorities, and drive decisions that enable successful execution of strategic programmes;
- Leading Cross-Functional Teams: Inspire and lead diverse teams across sales, marketing, finance, customer service, logistics, and product, fostering collaboration and alignment to deliver on shared goals and OKRs;
- Managing Complex Programmes: Develop and execute robust programme plans with clear timelines, risk assessments, dependency mapping and change impact assessments. Provide regular progress updates and adapt plans to meet critical milestones.
What will you bring to the table?
- Strategy Experience: A proven track record in strategy consulting or a strategic/transformational role in a multinational corporation. Experience in commercial strategy, technology, or food delivery is a plus;
- Digital & AI Expertise: Experience in identifying, implementing, and optimizing innovative digital solutions — including AI, bots, and automation tools — to enhance self-serve experiences, improve operational efficiency, and deliver measurable business outcomes;
- Commercial and Financial Acumen: To provide critical and key strategic insight across all areas of the business;
- Strategic Programme Leadership: Expertise in leading complex programmes with measurable (€million-level) business impact;
- Analytical Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical skills to structure, analyze, and solve complex challenges;
- Influential Communication: The ability to engage and align diverse stakeholders, from operational teams to executive leadership, to drive collaboration and consensus;
- Energy and Agility: A passion for innovation and change, with the ability to navigate a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment;
- Global Perspective: A desire to work in a global function close to corporate HQ, supporting diverse markets to achieve their goals.
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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