Oda is a company on the move. We built Norway’s leading online grocery store and now we want to share what we’ve created with the world! Delivering a huge range of high-quality, affordable groceries and fresh produce to millions of doorsteps is a complex process, but we believe we’ve cracked the code. Using data-driven methodology, with a focus on sustainability all the way along the chain, we are building the most efficient retail system in the world.
Oda is now present in Norway, Finland and Germany. We are constantly striving to improve our product and how we work across markets and to help us on this quest, we are now hiring for a Commercial business developer.
The Commercial Business developer is part of Customer Platform - responsible for building the best possible digital products for our customers and business. The role will be responsible for developing and driving forward our commercial strategic agenda and ensuring best practice ways of working across our local Commercial teams on topics such as such as negotiations, assortment, pricing and sourcing, as well as ensure commercial aspects is a key part of how we develop our shop experience and internal tooling. The role reports to Director of Product strategy and Operations and will work closely with head of Commercial across Norway, Germany and Finland and relevant Customer Platform teams.
What you’ll do as Commercial Business developer with us 🤸🏽
- Build, own and develop our Commercial best practice ways of working across markets:
- Optimizing, standardize and create best practice for how we work on key commercial processes across markets such as negotiations, promotions & campaign management, product information management and strategy
- Set up and run appropriate fora for best practice sharing and learnings across markets and relevant product teams
- Ensure we have a clear Commercial strategy guiding local and global priorities:
- Run the process for creating and aligning on our global strategy for pricing, promotions and assortment, in close collaboration with relevant global product teams and local commercial teams.
- Create decision material for strategic bets, including business case modeling and relevant analysis
- Support local Commercial Directors and relevant Customer Platform teams through 1:1 coaching and process support for creating and aligning local strategic and tactics.
- Project management of strategic project:
- Lead and coordinate complex cross functional product initiatives or programs within the commercial space needed to deliver on our strategy
- Support local Commercial directors with translating the strategic direction into concrete actions and plans, including setting up key local projects or programs.
To be successful, we believe you 🌟
- Have a passion for grocery retail and/or e-commerce
- Like to work in teams, are an active listener and a strong relationship builder
- Know how to drive forward decisions and create alignment with in a complex organization
- Have a strategic and analytical mindset and the ability to translate insight into actions
- You are self driven and take end to end ownership of projects and problems to so solve
The following will probably be helpful 💡
- Have worked 2-4 years within management consulting and/or retail with business development, project management and/or strategy
- Have experience working with grocery retail and/or e-commerce, and have strong knowledge of the inner workings of a commercial organization
- Have strategic or operational experience from the commercial space (e.g. pricing strategy, assortment strategy, category management, negotiation tactics)
- Have strong project management experience from previous work and experience with driving cross functional collaboration
- Have experience with building business cases, conducting analysis and preparing presentation material for driving action / decision making
What we offer 🚀
- Colleagues who shoot for the stars and care about helping each other
- An unique opportunity to work in the intersect between technology and grocery retail and to set new standards for how to run a commercial organization in a digital setting.
- International best practice ways of working with goal setting through OKRs which ensures focus, motivation to reach ambitious targets and autonomy in achieving outcome - and Flow, our own way of working within and between teams to create value.
- A transparent workplace where tools like Quip and Slack helps us to stay in the loop - with fewer emails and meetings!
- Newly build Vibrant and collaboration-friendly office spaces at Tøyen
- A wide range of social activities, team off-sites and company events
- A flexible work schedule with a healthy work-life balance to ensure you have space for life 💛
Oda is committed to being an inclusive community, cultivating diversity, equity and belonging into our everyday workplace culture. When hiring for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that people can add with different cultural backgrounds, ethnicity, sex, gender identity and expression, nationality, age, languages spoken, religion, disability, sexual orientation, education and beliefs. If you have a disability such as a hearing, or visual impairment or any other neurodivergent need that requires accommodating during the hiring process, please let us know in advance. You can do this by contacting the job owner or hiring manager.
As a part of Oda you’ll will be working with enthusiastic, skilled and ambitious people, shaping tomorrow’s shopping experience. Come build the future with us!
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We look forward to hearing from you!
