Senior Manager, HR M&A and Global Expansion

Company Description

Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company that provides an online platform for consumers, merchants and couriers. It connects people looking to order food and other goods with people interested in selling and delivering them. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local logistics to retail software and financial solutions – as well as operating its own grocery stores under the Wolt Market brand. Wolt’s products include Wolt+ (subscription service for customers), Wolt for Work (meal benefits and office deliveries for companies), Wolt Drive (fast last-mile deliveries for merchants) and Wolt Self-Delivery (service for merchant partners with their own delivery staff). Wolt’s mission is to make cities better by empowering and growing local communities. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 31 countries today, 27 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.

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.

If this sounds like you, then we’d love to chat! Join us today to build Wolt together.

Job Description

Are you our new Senior Manager who is able to tackle ambiguity in an analytical way within our M&A and Global Expansion for our global People team? Do you want to work with a versatile global people scope and help us continue to grow both organically and inorganically? If so, then we’d love to talk.

Role Background

As part of our phenomenal growth, we’re now looking to strengthen and scale our people team with a brand new role and find a person to own specific pieces for M&A and Global Expansion. Together with business and other global functions, you’ll independently lead everything from HR due diligence to greenlighting and launching any new country or venture we are focusing on. To do so, we need a person who looks beyond traditional HR scope to support our growth in a way that ensures we operate close to business and are moving fast while we create meaningful people outputs in a strategic way. Be it for international new country expansion or M&A.

While you work as part of our team, you should be comfortable in rolling up your sleeves to get things done around all corners of Wolt, and with our key stakeholders in your area of expertise be those internal or external.

What you’ll be doing

• Having end-to-end ownership for new country expansion and M&A for our people team in specific projects you are assigned to. For example, you’ll be independently shaping, structuring and leading the whole HR life cycle from HR due diligence to integration in M&A projects while you support our business to move fast and make meaningful decisions. Indeed, one of the core things to nail right is to work close to our customer, meaning business.

• Work will be by rule done together with various stakeholders where you work as a PM for your area of expertise. You connect the dots in ambiguity, ensure right decisions are made and ensure work is done in an effective manner. This means your work includes a lot of stakeholder management while being able to independently drive impact for your work with the help of cross functional owners as well as external partners such as advisory. Mentoring your own team and cross functional teams in your area of expertise is part of your daily work.

• You will independently own development activities in your area of expertise for which you have a habit of identifying gaps in ambiguity and get stuff done in a strategic manner to the lowest level of detail. This means you will be determining, designing and implementing preferred practices in use for M&A and People expansion where needed for which you find the right balance from specific business and/or cross functional needs, data and common sense. Here you lead and solve complex things creatively in the midst of ambiguity and focus on making sure we scale on a global scale and move with speed while iterating. For example, you are responsible for creating our Global People M&A process (including shaping deal and diligence process, creating scalable offer process, building foundations for integration strategy, and defining success metrics) from where we are today to meet the needs of our team and business as well as monitoring and ensuring it is implemented effectively and developed further where needed.

• When our M&A and Global Expansion pipeline is not active, you will be leading and working on strategic people projects in supporting our global team and business across Wolt and DoorDash.

• Having versatile scope within your area of expertise with a project type of approach. There may be things that come up so you are the swiss army knife in taking up these challenges together with our global team.

• You find a balance between when to focus on the big picture and when to step in. You handle both with ease, and are not afraid to get your hands dirty while keeping a broader team goals and company strategy in mind.

Qualifications

Our humble expectations

• We're looking for an analytical, strategic individual who is excited to dive in and drive. Extensive experience (+8 years) in People M&A will take you far while you’ll learn how we work as we go.

• Extremely strong project and stakeholder management skills where you have the ability to think strategically about systems and downstream impacts. This means that you are a natural problem solver but also extremely strong in communicating things in a very simple manner for your team, advisors, business and senior leadership.

• Strong analytical skills. This means you have a natural ability to figure out ambiguous data sets and make complex subject matter topics meaningful for any audience. 

• This is a complex landscape and so, in this role you naturally use your judgment to ensure we are able to make the right decisions while setting criteria and goals for us to move forward. And thus, you have a natural ability to lead and move complex things forward in a structured way.

• You are able to travel (frequency may vary), sometimes at short notice.

• You are a confident and kind communicator with excellent English skills.

• Previous experience from a multinational and/or fast-paced and/or complex stakeholder environment. Speed is part of our daily routine so we are looking for a person who thrives in such an environment.

• High attention to detail. We hope you have a straightforward way to ask questions, are a precise and thorough person with the ability to multitask and handle large amounts of information, tasks and details requiring your attention despite it getting hectic. Prioritization is definitely a skill to master where we all become better at it every day!

• You have a natural ability to figure things out as we take ownership beyond the obvious. This means you own tasks requiring your attention proactively with enthusiasm to constantly challenge yourself and us becoming better in what we do.

• Advanced skills in Google G Suite tools, Slack, Zoom and MS Office.

Additional Information

If you are excited about working in a high-growth environment, taking ownership, and being part of an extremely ambitious team, then click below to apply and get the conversation going!
Along with a competitive salary and benefits, you will also be eligible for our long term incentive plan.
You will fit into a truly diverse team across 28 countries - what really matters to us is a caring and welcoming environment where we embrace uniqueness and celebrate diversity. Experience a company culture where we work on eye level, decisions are made quickly and knowledge sharing, as well as mentoring, is on our daily agenda.

Please note that we do not accept applications sent by mail. You should submit your application through our careers website!