Head of Drive - Wolt Drive

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Tokyo
Mid level
Food
The Role
The Head of Drive at Wolt is responsible for building and executing business strategies, improving partner efficiency, communicating with cross-functional teams, and supporting sales cycles. The role focuses on onboarding partners, driving growth, and managing relationships with merchants to ensure successful delivery services.
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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. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. Together, Wolt and DoorDash operate in 27 countries today, serving more than 45 million customers.

Job Description

What is Wolt Drive

Wolt Drive is our most recent new venture where we offer businesses the opportunity to connect to their customers instantly with the use of our ultra-fast last mile delivery. 

We already have an industry-leading last-mile logistics platform and partnerships with thousands of riders across the country and can now offer it to partners outside of the Wolt Platform - and directly connect our quick delivery services to their app or e-com platform.

About the role

As a Business Manager of Wolt Drive you will play a key role in building business strategy, and execution, as well as improving operational efficiencies of Wolt Drive partners, ensuring the best possible partnership. Also the Business Manager will act as a key communicator between our cross functional team and partners in order to ensure optimal success.

What you'll be doing

  • Developing, implementing, and driving business strategies and own commercials and operations for key partners and merchants
  • Cross-functionally work with Sales teams to support full sales cycles, perform business analysis, and directly lead business negotiations where necessary
  • Onboard partners into our systems by working with multiple stakeholders as TAM, operations, support, and onboarding team.
  • Driving and managing growth of the existing merchants and partners acting as a main PoC.
  • Assisting the rest of the Wolt Drive team in any additional tasks related to working with partners.

Qualifications

  • Solid commercial and strategic thinking for winning
  • Demonstrable consultative sales approach
  • Strong analytical skills - such as translating data into actions, analyzing sales metrics and pricing models, and producing relevant KPIs.
  • Profound knowledge of business operations 
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with structured, detailed and service-oriented mindset.
  • Demonstrated ability to juggle multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • A self-starter who is willing to get your hands dirty, isn't afraid of failure, and has a bias towards action capable of thriving in a fast environment.
  • Fluent in both Japanese and English.
The Company
HQ: Helsinki
8,287 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

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 29 countries today, 25 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.

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