Senior Manager, Merchant Strategy & Operations - Selection Strategy

Company Description

Wolt is a technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to home or to the office. Our local commerce platform makes it easy for customers to order whatever they need on one app, for merchants to make additional sales, and for couriers to make meaningful earnings flexibly. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local commerce platform to retail software and financial solutions, as well as operates its own grocery stores under the brand Wolt Market. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 27 countries today, 23 of which are with the Wolt product and brand. 

So, why work at Wolt?
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.
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.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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.

Join us today to build Wolt together.

Job Description

About the Global Merchant Team

On the Global Merchant team, our mission is to have best-in class restaurant and store selection for consumers and build products and services for our merchants to grow their businesses profitably on Wolt. In doing so, we partner up closely with the commercial teams in our 25 countries.

Our five global subteams focus on distinct areas of the merchant lifecycle and experience but also our internal efficiency related to reaching our mission:

• The Merchant S&O (Strategy & Operations) team is responsible for our merchant and selection strategy, merchant experience, planning and performance tracking, operating model design as well as commercial go-to-market approaches
• The Sales S&O team owns and develops the goaling, sales operations processes, tools and enablement programs to support and improve the productivity of our local pre- and post-sales teams
• The Merchant Operations subteam focuses on smooth execution of core processes such as onboarding, in-store flows, self-service tooling and integrations - this in a very tight collaboration with our product teams
• The Enterprise team works directly with global current and prospective merchant partners to unlock and grow our joint business
• The B2B subteam owns and develops some of our newer service offerings for merchants - such as logistics as a service (Drive)

About the Role

We are looking for an operator with a strong bias to action who is excited to solve problems and improve our business. The ideal candidate can flex between scrappy executing, data analysis, executive communication and cross-functional management. You’ll join the Merchant Strategy & Operations team, where we’re focused on building the best merchant selection for our customers. 

As the Sr. Manager of Selection Strategy & Operations you’ll be responsible for developing our merchant strategy–assessing which merchants we should target, leveraging data to surface key insights, measuring performance and developing a better merchant experience. You will report to the Director of Merchant Strategy & Operations and lead cross-functional collaboration between Wolt operations, sales, marketing, product, finance to hit selection goals across 25 countries. This role will be located in Berlin or Helsinki.

Merchant selection is key to Wolt’s growth, and getting more merchant partners is a top priority. In this role, you will refine our selection intelligence model to ensure we are targeting the most incremental merchants and work closely with sales and product to make sure merchants are successful on our platform–ensuring Wolt has the strongest merchant selection.

What you will be doing

• Help shape and define our Mx strategy and goals based on quantitative and qualitative data
• Refine the design of our merchant operating model and support countries on the implementation journey 
• Dig into the merchant experience and work with sales & product to optimize it
• Define and plan our overall Merchan