Category Specialist

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 your home or office. Since launching 7 years ago, Wolt has expanded from a restaurant food delivery platform in the Nordics to a leading player in the delivery of everything across EMEA. Wolt works together with tens of thousands of restaurant and retail partners, as well as with over a hundred thousand courier partners across 25 countries and 250+ cities. In November 2020 Wolt and DoorDash announced they are joining forces, and the transaction is expected to close in H1 2022. We continue to expand rapidly and are looking for more talented individuals to join us.

Wolt not only offers great apps to customers and partners, but is also developing a broad range of technologies and solutions. Our apps (iOS and Android) have the industry’s highest reviews, largely because of our customer-centric approach to how we build our products and operations. For example, our customer service team responds in a matter of minutes, in the customer’s own language.

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

Would you like to develop your skills on quick commerce grocery business and get inspired by what goes on below the hood? Do you like working in a dynamic and changing environment and have an analytical mindset where details are important to you? Awesome! You might be the person we’re just looking for. Please read on!

Role background

Wolt is a Finnish technology company and we’re best known for our food delivery platform. Food delivery was just a start, and now we are exploring and expanding our platform with other business verticals in retail and grocery. We’ve grown significantly in the last three years, expanding our operations from just four countries across the Nordics, to 23 countries across Europe and Asia today. And we’re just getting started.

The role you are looking at is a part of Wolt Market - our very own grocery stores that deliver unprecedented convenience and world leading customer experience. People across Finland can order their groceries and have them delivered to their doorstep at lightspeed! With Wolt Market, our focus is to find the right products by being customer oriented, offer the fastest delivery available and be the company that changes the future of grocery shopping. This full time role plays an important part in the success of our growth in Finland. Your day-to-day work will have a concrete and measurable impact in our business!

We are now searching for a full time Category Specialist to help make our assortment handling across our stores more effective and inspiring in Finland. The position is based in HQ/Helsinki and reports to the Head of Category Management. In this role your main responsibility is to monitor and develop our store level assortments as a part of our commercial/category team. You’ll follow assortment performance and rotation together with our inventory team. You will also play an important part in the information flow between other Wolt Market stakeholders like our operations team and 16 stores.

What you’ll be doing

• Store level assortment handling and performance monitoring

• Store level space handling and development

• Promo, seasonal and novelty forecasting

• Participation in process development

• Participation in store opening and assortment related projects

• External and internal cooperation (ie. store operations, and inventory management team)

• All above with the help and cooperation of Head of Category Management and the rest of the category team

Qualifications

Our humble expectations

• 1+ years of relevant FMCG assortment management work experience and a proven track record of results. Your previous role could have been an assortment/category/space manager or specialist in retail.

• You are familiar with sales and order quantity forecasting

• Data is your friend and you enjoy exploring it to support business decisions of yourself and others. You have a detail oriented way of working and analytical mindset for improvement.

• You are ready to perform practical tasks as a part of your everyday work.

• You have the ability to work focused, under pressure and time limits.

• Working with numbers and tech brings you joy.

• “Teamwork is dream work” -mentality.

• Fluent level of Finnish and English. Swedish language skill is a nice to have.

Additional Information

This is an excellent possibility for you who are interested in developing your grocery and retail understanding and have the drive to build something completely new. If you get excited, then don’t hesitate and click below to apply and get the conversation going! If you have any further questions about the position before submitting an application, you can turn to: Alvaro Patilla, Talent Acquisition Partner: Please note that we do not accept applications coming through email due to GDPR. Make sure to apply through our careers page!