Strategy & Commercial Manager - Colchester & Chelmsford

Deliveroo

About the Team The Consumer Core team at Deliveroo owns the in-app experience and how consumers explore our product. Our mission is to help consumers build confidence in ordering and discover “the best in their neighbourhood.” Our team identifies emerging customer needs, shapes long-term strategy for the consumer food discovery journey, and ensures that new features deliver measurable impact. Ultimately, we advocate for the consumer at every step, championing experiences that make Deliveroo feel local, relevant, and delightful. About the Role In this role, you will work with product, engineering, and design partners to solve key problems for Deliveroo consumers by developing and testing data-driven hypotheses, generating new product ideas, and improving the overall consumer experience. You will own projects from hypothesis to implementation to results and will get to the lowest level of detail in order to execute on high-impact experiments. The results of your work will influence business decisions, our consumer and product strategies, and the future of the consumer app. You will report into the Director of Consumer Strategy and Behaviour, within the broader consumer organisation. Projects you may work on include helping users discover the best restaurant and dishes, encouraging content creation on Deliveroo, using AI to automate existing processes, supporting go-to-market campaigns, etc. You will also be responsible for creating & implementing efficient processes for working cross functionally with our strategic partners. You're excited about this opportunity because you will: * Strategise – Shape our team’s strategy and help decide "what we should do next" * Build – Design and launch new initiatives from the ground up * Analyse – Analyse experiment results to inform business decisions and future experiments * Influence – Partner with other teams - Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, Analytics - to drive cross-functional and go-to-market execution What You’ll Need to Thrive: Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others: * Strategic & Analytical Depth: Significant experience in product, consulting, investment banking, or technology environments with a proven ability to build insight-driven models and solve complex problems. * Stakeholder Influence: Strong understanding of how to build trust and drive alignment across diverse senior Commercial and Technology leaders. * Complex Project Management: Proven ability to manage large-scale projects from scoping to execution, maintaining momentum across multiple functions and markets. * Entrepreneurial Drive: A bias for action and a comfort with ambiguity, with the proactivity to build and iterate where playbooks are still being defined. * Structured Communication: Ability to drive clarity through structured, confident communication, translating data into compelling narratives for both upwards and downwards influence. Why Join Us? At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters, solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving. We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to: * 🔧 Make a visible impact every day – Your work directly improves experiences for customers, partners and riders. * 🌱 Learn fast in an entrepreneurial environment – Work close to the market with autonomy, pace and real responsibility. * 🧠 Build a career, not just a role – Stretch yourself, develop new skills and grow as the business evolves. * 🌎 Deliver together in an inclusive culture – Collaborative, values-driven teams that support how you work best. We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine—our interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Find more about how we hire here. Our Global Structure Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we’re unlocking new possibilities as one global team. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief. If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles, or require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, you’ll have the opportunity to let us know once you’ve submitted your application. We’ll share details on how to request support so we can ensure you have a fair and equitable experience. If you’re excited about making a real impact in a fast-moving marketplace and growing your career alongside ambitious, supportive teams, we’d love to hear from you!

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Senior Strategy & Operations Manager   As the S&O Lead for Monetisation, you will be responsible for managing and optimising merchant monetisation strategy across our markets. This includes commission structures, merchant fees, pricing architecture and more. We are looking for a highly driven Strategy and Operations Leader to take ownership of key monetisation levers and help build scalable systems, tools, and processes. You’ll be part of the Merchant Strategy & Operations (S&O) team and report into the Director, Global Mx Strategy. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, commercial leadership, product teams, and finance to design, implement, and iterate on monetisation strategies. This role is both strategic and executional, ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex commercial problems while rolling up their sleeves to drive impact.     Key Responsibilities * Define our monetisation strategy, collaborating with commercial leadership across global markets to set our global framework for commission, fee structures and our overall take rate. Lead monetisation pilots, track performance, and scale successful models across markets. * Be the voice of our merchant partners and ensure we drive sustainable merchant growth and best-in-class selection of merchants, while allowing deliveroo to take our fair share of value. * Drive standardisation and reduce complexity across markets and segments, whilst maintaining a clear understanding of different competitive and market landscapes across markets and how those should impact our decision. * Operationalise strategy and build playbooks, guidelines and negotiation frameworks to empower commercial and account management teams to land monetisation changes successfully. * Define the monetisation roadmap with Engineering and Product leads, using technical solutions and automation to create processes that are effective and efficient. * Serve as the global DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) for merchant monetisation, pushing the business to think about wider market trends and competitive pricing benchmarking. * Assemble, inspire and drive a cross-functional team of stakeholders for monetisation that helps you drive strategic decisions as well as day to day running of governance and processes. * Own ambitious monetisation OKRs and create the governance and structures to track performance, course correct and prioritise. * Set and maintain high standards of operational rigour, ensuring monetisation frameworks are scalable to all markets and segments, and compliant with local regulations.   About You * Experience: 8+ years of experience (preferably a mix of strategy consulting and business operations) in tech, marketplaces, or B2B monetisation. * Commercial Acumen: Deep understanding of marketplace dynamics, subscription pricing, or complex B2B financial models. * Analytical Mindset: Strong data-driven approach with proficiency in data and visualization tools to solve complex commercial problems. * Influence: Proven ability to influence senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders in a high-growth, matrixed environment. * Ownership: A strong "bias for action" and the ability to drive structure and clarity in ambiguous environments. Why Join Us?   At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters, solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving. We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to:   🔧 Make a visible impact every day Your work directly improves experiences for customers, partners and riders. 🌱 Learn fast in an entrepreneurial environment Work close to the market with autonomy, pace and real responsibility. 🧠 Build a career, not just a role Stretch yourself, develop new skills and grow as the business evolves. 🌎 Deliver together in an inclusive culture Collaborative, values-driven teams that support how you work best.   We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine—our interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Find more about how we hire here.   Our Global Structure   Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we’re unlocking new possibilities as one global team.   Diversity, Equity and Inclusion   At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief. If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles, or require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, you’ll have the opportunity to let us know once you’ve submitted your application. We’ll share details on how to request support so we can ensure you have a fair and equitable experience. If you’re excited about making a real impact in a fast-moving marketplace and growing your career alongside ambitious, supportive teams, we’d love to hear from you!

Deliveroo

DATA SCIENCE MANAGER Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation and growth drive everything we do. Our Data Science organisation sits at the heart of Deliveroo, powering decision-making across product, commercial and operational teams through experimentation and causal inference. We’re hiring multiple Data Science Managers across different areas of the business. Rather than hiring for one fixed team, we use the interview process to understand your strengths, interests and development areas, and then align you to the right scope, level and team. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING You’ll own the analytical direction and measurable impact of a product or business area, while leading and developing a high performing team of data scientists or machine learning engineers. Depending on the area you join, you could be: * Building experimentation and causal inference frameworks to improve customer retention, loyalty and subscription growth * Leading pricing, promotions or value strategy, balancing growth, profitability and long term customer trust * Improving discovery, search or personalisation through rapid iteration on high impact algorithms * Driving customer acquisition and engagement across restaurants, retail or new verticals using data-led targeting and incentives Across all roles, you’ll remain hands-on while managing a team. You’ll decide which problems are worth solving and ensure data science work translates into better product and commercial decisions, not just analysis. You'll partner with Product, Engineering, Ops, Marketing and Finance as a thought partner, and set the bar for analytical rigour, prioritisation and impact across noisy metrics, real trade-offs and strong stakeholder opinions. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO THRIVE Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others: * Experience line managing data scientists and supporting their career development * A strong background as a senior individual contributor, with hands-on experience in experimentation, causal inference or applied machine learning * Proven ability to identify high impact opportunities and turn insights into clear strategy and execution * Confidence working with senior stakeholders and explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences * Comfort operating in fast moving, ambiguous environments where prioritisation and judgement matter as much as technical skill WHY JOIN US? At Deliveroo, you’ll work on real world problems at global scale, across a three-sided marketplace that is constantly evolving. We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community organisers and more, united by a shared drive to make things better. Working here, you can expect: * High autonomy to shape strategy and deliver meaningful impact * Support to learn and grow through L&D programmes, mentoring and peer learning * A strong focus on wellbeing, with benefits that vary by country * A place to belong, with a diverse global workforce and active employee communities DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION At Deliveroo, we believe great workplaces reflect the world around us. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion or belief. If you require adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know. We’re committed to ensuring everyone has an equitable opportunity to succeed. Ready to own impact and shape how decisions are made at Deliveroo? Apply today.