Category Lead - Global Grocery in London

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 or 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 inspire and influence multiple stakeholders toward 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.

Key responsibilities

• 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.

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.