Category Leader - Grocery & Retail Media

Category Leader - Grocery & Retail Media 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 Leader 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. Next to closing partnerships with grocery partners, you identify and realize Retail Media opportunities with FMCG companies looking to leverage the high traffic of our JET platforms. Based on these partnerships, you drive the development of the grocery category consumer proposition working cross functionally with Tech, Marketing, Compliance and Logistics 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 be used to inspire and influence multiple stakeholders towards 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. These are some of the key ingredients to the role: Contribute to the development and execute 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; Grow the JET Retail Media business in close collaboration with the Global Retail Media team; 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; Engage JET functions such as tech, marketing, operations and logistics to develop company capabilities improving the shopping and selling experience within your vertical; Represent JET at industry events with superior networking skills. What will you bring to the table? Extensive experience in account management or business development in FMCG or Retail, preferably at Global level; 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 member of a high-performing team; 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 root cause, uses relevant data to take decisions and provide insights; 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. What else is cooking? Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels. Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now! LI-VG1

Location: Noord Holland, NL

Posted Date: 7/12/2025