Head of Strategy and Planning, Bolt
Grocery & Retail
+ Stock options
3-5 days a week in office
Building the future of transportation
Be an early applicant
Building the future of transportation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a future where people don't need to own personal cars to move around safely and conveniently.
Role
Who you are
- You have solid experience in strategy, business planning, or management consulting, with a track record of turning business priorities into clear plans and actions
- You have strong business acumen and financial literacy, and are comfortable with strategic planning, business cases, and modelling trade-offs and ROI
- You have strong analytical skills, including experience with data analysis, financial modelling, and performance tracking to support decision-making
- You have experience leading cross-functional initiatives and working closely with teams such as Product, Operations, Finance, and Commercial/Marketing
- You have excellent communication and storytelling skills and can influence senior stakeholders while simplifying complex topics
- You have people leadership experience and have worked in fast-paced, high-growth environments, ideally in grocery, retail, consumer goods, marketplaces, or 3P platforms
- Experience is great, but what we really look for is drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don’t tick every box, please consider applying!
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a strategic, data-driven leader to shape the foundations of our Grocery & Retail business across Customer Value Proposition, Data & Insights, long-term strategy, and business governance. In this role, you will help define how we understand the business, where we invest, and how we win by turning complex challenges into clear, high-impact actions
- The Head of Strategy & Planning will lead a small team of analysts and strategists, with scope covering 16 markets, and own the data and insights agenda to ensure the business has the right metrics, frameworks, and analytical depth to make strong decisions. This person will drive long-term strategy, business governance, merchant growth levers, and new initiatives, while partnering cross-functionally to align priorities and execution
- It is a high-ownership role at the centre of the business, ideal for someone with people leadership experience, a consulting or data and analytics background, experience in grocery, retail, e-commerce, or marketplaces, and the hunger to help drive the next phase of growth. This role can be based in Tallinn, London, or Warsaw
- Own and evolve the Customer Value Proposition (CVP) for Grocery & Retail, defining the key drivers of customer value and ensuring alignment across teams
- Lead the Data & Insights agenda, building the metrics, dashboards, and analytical frameworks needed to guide business decisions
- Define and drive the long-term strategy, translating priorities into clear roadmaps and ensuring strong execution and follow-through
- Own core business governance processes, including budgeting, MBRs, and product planning coordination, to drive alignment, accountability, and visibility
- Drive Merchant Growth strategy and other high-impact strategic initiatives, from opportunity sizing and business case development through to execution and scaling
- Build and lead a high-performing team of analysts and strategists, while partnering cross-functionally with Product, Finance, Commercial, and Operations to align priorities and unlock growth
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Across Europe, more and more people are choosing flexible, on-demand transport instead of owning a car. And ride-hailing, shared vehicles and new technology like autonomous driving are all part of this shift. So, cities are pushing for safer and more efficient transport, which is encouraging mobility companies to invest in electric vehicles and even driverless solutions which could eventually reshape urban travel.
Bolt has positioned themselves right in the center of this change, with is leading mobility platform that offers ride-hailing services across more than 50 countries. Through its app, Bolt connects users with transport options designed to be affordable and simple.
Recently, the company partnered with Stellantis to explore Level 4 autonomous, driverless vehicles, showing just how far ahead Bolt is looking for its next phase of mobility.
That said, Bolt operates in a very crowded market and urban mobility is highly competitive, with many local and international players all trying to come out on top. Even so, demand for shared and on-demand transport is at an all time high and only growing. Bolt's broad geographic reach, focus on scale and willingness to invest in future technologies puts it in the perfect position to keep growing.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2022
$723.8m
SERIES F
Aug 2021
$691.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $2.0bn
Company HQ
Veerenni, Tallinn, Harju County
Leadership
Markus Villig
(CEO)Markus founded Bolt in 2013 and has served as the CEO since.
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