Senior Manager, HR M&A and Global Expansion

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company that provides an online platform for consumers, merchants and couriers. It connects people looking to order food and other goods with people interested in selling and delivering them. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local logistics to retail software and financial solutions – as well as operating its own grocery stores under the Wolt Market brand. Wolt’s products include Wolt+ (subscription service for customers), Wolt for Work (meal benefits and office deliveries for companies), Wolt Drive (fast last-mile deliveries for merchants) and Wolt Self-Delivery (service for merchant partners with their own delivery staff). Wolt’s mission is to make cities better by empowering and growing local communities. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 31 countries today, 27 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.</p><p><strong>So, why work at Wolt?</strong></p><p>At Wolt, We’re About Getting Things Done. You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people.</p><p>We work hard to make cities into better places, and it’s pretty cool seeing us grow every week. If you’re passionate about building things that just… work, Wolt might be for you.</p><p><strong>Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion</strong></p><p>We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.</p><p>If this sounds like you, then we’d love to chat! Join us today to build Wolt together.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>Are you our new Senior Manager who is able to tackle ambiguity in an analytical way within our M&amp;A and Global Expansion for our global People team? Do you want to work with a versatile global people scope and help us continue to grow both organically and inorganically? If so, then we’d love to talk.</p><p><strong>Role Background</strong></p><p>As part of our phenomenal growth, we’re now looking to strengthen and scale our people team with a brand new role and find a person to own specific pieces for M&amp;A and Global Expansion. Together with business and other global functions, you’ll independently lead everything from HR due diligence to greenlighting and launching any new country or venture we are focusing on. To do so, we need a person who looks beyond traditional HR scope to support our growth in a way that ensures we operate close to business and are moving fast while we create meaningful people outputs in a strategic way. Be it for international new country expansion or M&amp;A.</p><p>While you work as part of our team, you should be comfortable in rolling up your sleeves to get things done around all corners of Wolt, and with our key stakeholders in your area of expertise be those internal or external.</p><p><strong>What you’ll be doing</strong></p><ul><li><p>Having end-to-end ownership for new country expansion and M&amp;A for our people team in specific projects you are assigned to. For example, you’ll be independently shaping, structuring and leading the whole HR life cycle from HR due diligence to integration in M&amp;A projects while you support our business to move fast and make meaningful decisions. Indeed, one of the core things to nail right is to work close to our customer, meaning business.</p></li><li><p>Work will be by rule done together with various stakeholders where you work as a PM for your area of expertise. You connect the dots in ambiguity, ensure right decisions are made and ensure work is done in an effective manner. This means your work includes a lot of stakeholder management while being able to independently drive impact for your work with the help of cross functional owners as well as external partners such as advisory. Mentoring your own team and cross functional teams in your area of expertise is part of your daily work.</p></li><li><p>You will independently own development activities in your area of expertise for which you have a habit of identifying gaps in ambiguity and get stuff done in a strategic manner to the lowest level of detail. This means you will be determining, designing and implementing preferred practices in use for M&amp;A and People expansion where needed for which you find the right balance from specific business and/or cross functional needs, data and common sense. Here you lead and solve complex things creatively in the midst of ambiguity and focus on making sure we scale on a global scale and move with sp