Consumer Growth, Strategy Manager

Our Global Structure Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we’re unlocking new possibilities as one global team. We’re hiring a new member to Consumer Strategy & Operations to develop and execute winning growth strategies in Italy. You’ll be part of the Market Growth team within EMEA Consumer Strategy & Operations (S&O) , the function responsible for regional growth strategy and accountable for the topline targets. In this role, you’ll work directly with Italy’s General Manager, defining priority cities, building the playbooks to win and programme managing the delivery with the local management team. You’ll partner closely with Product, Marketing, Commercial, Analytics, and Finance. This is a cross-functional role requiring strong analytical thinking, structured communication, and sound commercial judgment. What you’ll be doing Strategy & Insight Be the GM’s growth partner: help define priority cities, and formulate plans to grow in those cities Understand the behaviours and needs of Italian consumers, and use that to influence the Product roadmaps across pricing, Plus, and the core user experience Carry learnings from EMEA and the US into the market Performance & Planning Co-own Italy’s consumer growth metrics, ensuring we hit the topline. Partner with Analytics to diagnose performance drivers and develop corrective action plans where needed Support the GM in annual and quarterly planning: help define the strategy, set the goals, run the workshops, and co-own the output documents with F&S Execution & Delivery Programme-manage growth plans and support the local team to deliver them, including ad-hoc cross-functional projects Develop structured execution plans and drive alignment across stakeholders to ensure delivery Our humble expectations Fluent in Italian, the working language of the local business, and English the working language of DoorDash group; both written and spoken 5–10 years in strategy, consulting, business operations or a growth-related role in a tech or consumer business Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to work from incomplete data sets Clear, concise communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to influence across teams and up to GM level Demonstrated ability to drive structure, clarity and progress in complex, cross-functional environments High personal ownership and bias for action, while knowing when to escalate or seek alignment Collaborative mindset, able to work across a diverse set of teams and perspectives (Bonus) Experience in marketplaces, consumer tech, food delivery, multi-market ops, or the Italian market Compensation The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on…