Context

Adeo is the world’s third largest retailer in DIY and decoration goods, with over €30.0bn yearly revenues and 150 thousand employees across 15 countries. Key group brands include Leroy Merlin, Bricoman, Bricomart, Bricocenter, Weldom, Zodio and Alice Delice.

The group is currently developing its marketplace. It is a key pillar of an ambitious plan to transform the entire business and become the world’s leading habitat platform. The marketplace will help expand the product and service offering, improve Customer experience, reinforce the market positioning and create a key revenue stream.

🎯 Job Description

The marketplace team at Adeo is looking for a talented, Customer-obsessed Project Leader - Business Development to support the marketplace growth. The role offers the unique opportunity to lead growth initiatives and projects, build new business solutions and develop a deep understanding of the marketplace across all markets. The Project Leader - Business Development will have a key role in the long-term improvement of the Customer experience and the success of the marketplace.

Responsibilities include building and improving new business solutions and services, while collaborating with key partners (both internally and externally). This role will have a high degree of autonomy and will be able to lead and influence across a broad range of international projects.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a high degree of ownership and have a demonstrated record of successful business management, leading multiple transversal projects with competing deadlines, and using data to identify and prioritize opportunities. The ideal candidate is analytical, enthusiastic, self-motivated, detail-oriented, Customer-focused, and has the ability to handle ambiguity and influence at all levels of the organization.

The position will be based in our offices in Milan, Lille, Paris, Madrid.

🥇 YOUR PROFILE

The role will have several key responsibilities, including

• Get a deep understanding of customer expectations as they relate to omnichannel customer experience, and how addressing these expectations impacts overall customer experience.
• Work closely with the leadership on designing the business strategy, drive best-in-class Customer experience and maximize revenue growth. Create business plans for new opportunities and develop new projects and initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across the international organization (including the sales teams, IT, Retail, stores and finance) and communicate with internal and external parties, while meeting tight deadlines for high visibility projects.

• Conduct financial analysis of business opportunities to meet and exceed revenue and profitability targets.

• Leverage data to get insights into high impact business problems across business units, geographies and product categories in order to optimize user journey and improve customer experience.

• Identify new opportunities based on latest industry innovations and drive continuous improvement initiatives

Basic Qualifications

• MSc degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics or related field from a top-tier university
• Highly organized and results oriented with a high degree of ownership.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven experience in developing original ideas, approaches, and solutions to atypical, unusual, or difficult situations in a competitive and ever-changing business climate.
• Personal initiative and strong hands-on attitude along with creativeness, decisiveness and results-driven mentality for a business-focused way of thinking.
• Proven team leadership skills.
• English proficiency.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in e-commerce, consulting, finance and/or retail/FMCG industries.
• MBA from a top tier business school is highly preferred.
• Fluent in French, German, Italian and/or Spanish.
• 3-4 years project management experience

Please, send your résumé in English.

Adeo is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all members of society and believe that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills and value your passion to collaborate, learn, invent, build and succeed.