Hey, you look like you might be our new  Category Specialist (WM) - Maternity Leave

Procurement & Supply Chain

Helsinki, Finland

Full-time

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

Our humble expectations

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.

Next steps

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: alvaro.patilla@external.wolt.com

Please note that we do not accept applications coming through email due to GDPR. Make sure to apply through our careers page! 

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