Director Digital Strategy & eCommerce Growth

What are you looking for?

What do we offer?

• To be courageous
• To live wholeheartedly
• To keep growing

What do you bring?

• An eye for detail
• A drive to innovate
• High focus on quality

Why Ahold Delhaize

• Huge Impact
• Work with fun and smart colleagues
• (Inter)national growth opportunities

How you can
make a difference

Are you interested in shaping the digital and corporate strategy of one of the largest retailers in the world? Are you confident enough to shape omnichannel growth in a competitive industry undergoing digital transformation? Then we would like to challenge you to make an impact at Ahold Delhaize. 😊

About Ahold Delhazie

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 16 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Your new work environment

As our Director of Strategy and eCommerce Growth, you will lead the development, execution and communication of strategic initiatives that drive our omnichannel and digital transformation strategy and corporate enterprise strategy across our regions and brands. These initiatives include driving new digital business models, enterprise-wide strategic initiatives, and innovation across the grocery retail value chain. In addition, you ensure the contents of our digital and corporate strategy are accurately developed with strong capability assessments and subsequent build, buy and partner analyses.

Key responsibilities of your role

Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities. Here are the key ones:

• Take the lead in growing our omnichannel profitability and online sales
• Accelerate critical strategic (digital) capabilities.
• Ensure we continue to stay at the forefront of using technology as a competitive advantage for our business.
• Manage best practice strategy content and ensure that the topics show up clearly and consistently across all business plans.

In this strategic management role, you will keep track of trends and commercial developments that could impact our business. You will drive our planning cycle, reviewing our strategy across our regions and brands. You will also develop strategies and new business opportunities to drive growth in this increasingly digital-first world. Lastly, you will link these strategic initiatives to our financial plan and ensure integration across our brands, regions and functions.

You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas. We will continuously support you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future.

In this role, you report to the Head of Strategy and M&A. You will work with stakeholders such as the Executive Committee members, functional, regional and brand senior executives and key associates. You need to navigate through a complex organization that comprehends multiple seniority levels, countries, languages and cultures. For this reason, you need advanced diplomatic skills and the ability to communicate at an executive level.

What’s in it for you?

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Plus:

• A gross annual salary of €100.000 to €120.000 based on full-time employment
• Attractive bonuses
• A first-rate pension plan
• 20 vacation days and the option to buy an additional 12.5 days from your personal ‘flex budget’
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card
• A laptop and smartphone

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• A Master's degree in Business Administration or a related field
• Over eight years of work experience in a consulting firm or the retail industry across corporate strategy, strategy consulting, business operations, finance or business development.
• Proven experience with successful project management. You have a track record of successfully delivering company-critical projects and proven business impact.
• The ability to successfully create and communicate (written and verbal) complex strategic insights and the company strategy at an executive level.
• Logical structuring skills to decompose problems and create solutions.
• A proactive and entrepreneurial attitude for taking on new roles and responsibilities.
• Experience managing projects, key stakeholders and workstreams.
• Experience developing and executing senior leadership meetings and workshops.
• The ability to develop quantitative analysis and financial models in Excel.
• Experience in performing external research and driving external and internal stakeholder interviews.

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some much-valued soft skills to the table: an entrepreneurial mindset, outspoken communication and storytelling skills and the ability to connect with all layers within our international and intercultural environment. In addition to these, a high level of flexibility, being adaptive, and working in a structured way, will take you far.

Apply now!

Are you keen to join the Global Strategy team? Even if you don’t tick all the boxes, but you still believe you have the personality and skills that make you a suitable candidate, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us. Apply now via the button on this page, or feel free to contact Milou van Regteren, Talent Acquisition Partner via Milou.van.regteren@aholddelhaize.com if you have any questions.

At Ahold Delhaize and our local brands, we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.

What
matters to us?

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.

Be courageous

"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.” Colleague

Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me." Colleague

Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.” Colleague