Head of Product, Network Optimisation

We are looking for a senior product leader to head up our new Network Optimisation product pillar. This role involves owning the vision, strategy, and execution for critical systems that manage the interaction of supply and demand, courier payments and assignments, and the accuracy of estimation models. In this role you will approach this domain as an integrated network, where all components must work together to achieve reliable, efficient, and scalable outcomes. A key focus will be to drive the adoption of unified, shared services and systems to replace fragmented setups, thereby ensuring consistency, faster innovation, and improved network performance globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a cohesive product strategy that aligns all optimisation levers (Pay, incentives, forecasting, shift planning, supply/demand shaping models) into one orchestrated system delivering optimal network outcomes.
• Lead the migration toward singular, shared services for core optimisation domains, reducing duplication and complexity while improving global scalability.
• Manage product ownership across three core teams, treating each area as part of a network optimisation system whose combined performance matters most.
• Guide a team of senior PMs and engineers while engaging closely with leadership, operations, and regional stakeholders to ensure global alignment and adoption.
• Build a robust experimentation culture, enabling data-driven improvements across dispatch, incentives, and forecasting.
• Ensure systems operate at scale with high reliability, as they underpin the core delivery promise to customers, couriers, and partners.
• Drive improvement in key network optimisation metrics, including On-Time Delivery, Courier Wait Times, Offer acceptance and reliability rates, Forecast accuracy, Dispatch efficiency (e.g., order handling time, courier wait time), Pay fairness and engagement measures, Overall delivery reliability and cost efficiency.
• Play a critical role in ensuring our network continues to be a competitive advantage for the business and a trusted system for all stakeholders.

What will you bring to the team?

• Extensive product management experience including senior leadership roles.
• Proven ability to manage large-scale optimisation, logistics, or marketplace systems.
• Strong technical fluency, with ability to lead cross-functional discussions with data science, engineering, and operations.
• Track record of building unified platforms or shared services across fragmented environments.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and team leadership skills.

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.

Location: Hybrid – 3 days a week from London office & 2 days working from home

Reporting to: Senior Director of Product