Remote International Expansion Lead in Surrey

A bit about the role. Do you love collaborating with a diverse set of teams to deliver critical and high-impact projects, to help build one of Europe’s fastest growing DTC brands? As part of the Strategy team, reporting to the Head of Strategy, you’ll play a key role in bringing Butternut Box and our sister brand Marro, to new markets across Europe and beyond. You’ll help make sure we bring the highest quality to everything we do at Butternut, to allow us to continue to scale over the years and decades ahead. We’re building a multi-generational business and this role will be pivotal to making that happen.

We're looking for a self-starter with extremely high attention to detail, an organisational powerhouse, who is able to influence and motivate a variety of teams each with varying priorities. You'll have ownership of our international market launches from the very beginning and will be responsible for managing them until they're integrated into the wider business. You’ll play a key role in making judgements and the freedom to continually question and optimise the way that we do things, to help us always strive for better.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Plan and deliver new market launches, guiding teams from all across the business to deliver successful outcomes (70%)
• Manage multiple international launch projects at once from kick-off to Day 1 launch, identifying interdependencies, mapping out timelines and ensuring risks don’t materialise into blockers.
• Ensure the long term ambitions of Butternut and Marro are being prioritised in decision making throughout a launch (thinking on a 10 year time horizon at least).
• Champion and celebrate the wins of your peers in the project teams, keeping everyone engaged and excited about launches.
• Manage day-to-day action tracking and stakeholder communications and reporting.
• Facilitate the necessary project meetings and working sessions to keep everyone aligned.
• Manage and present company-wide communication on major project milestones.
• Once a market is up and running, act as the representative of that market in all global forums until a country manager and local team are fully onboarded and integrated into the business.
• Act as an ambassador of our Butternut culture in all you do, channelling this into new markets but leaving space for localisation and cultural nuance.
• Bring rigour and quality to our international expansion process (30%)
• Design and codify delivery playbooks, templates and tools to support ‘best practice’ project execution for Butternut globally, including the smart use of AI to make our launches more efficient.
• Seek ways to improve on our company operating processes and rhythm, helping us to run more efficiently and stay on track towards company goals as we become increasingly international.
• Ensure that resources (i.e. time, people, budget) are managed efficiently whilst keeping quality, our customers and the brand a priority.

A bit about you. Experienced and assured in your abilities (must have 5+ years of experience in a strategic role, ideally leading on complex programmes with multiple stakeholders). Relevant experience managing multiple high visibility cross-functional projects (simultaneously) from start to finish - this could be internally or in a client-facing role as a consultant or project manager. Holds exceptionally high standards for operational excellence and makes things happen. Excellent communication skills - ability to present information and stakeholder expectations succinctly and clearly, in the best way to suit and influence your audience. A highly analytical problem-solver - not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get stuck into a complex question. Excellent at managing stakeholders, including Senior Leadership - demonstrated ability to work with a variety of teams with different ways of working.