Global Head of Marketing - Retail (Shopping)

Global Head of Marketing - Retail (Shopping)

Job ID: R21417

Marketing

London - The River Building HQ

Permanent

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About the role

Deliveroo is seeking a commercially driven, strategic, and execution-focused Global Head of Marketing - Retail (Shopping) to lead the next phase of growth across our Shopping business.

Reporting into the Global New Verticals Marketing Director, this London-based role will define and deliver the global marketing strategy across Retail (Shopping) - owning budgets, category positioning, partner growth, campaign excellence, and cross market best practice.

You will operate at the intersection of Commercial, Growth, Product, Operations and local markets - ensuring we scale best in class marketing frameworks while driving measurable commercial impact.

What you'll be doing Global Strategy & Budget Ownership

Define and lead the global marketing strategy for Retail (Shopping), aligned to ambitious growth targets.

Own and manage the global Retail marketing budgets, ensuring disciplined, ROI driven investment.

Develop annual and quarterly campaign roadmaps across markets, maximising seasonal moments and key trading events.

Establish clear KPIs and measurement frameworks, leading post campaign analysis and sharing actionable insights across the business.

Balance brand building and performance marketing to drive sustainable acquisition, retention and frequency growth.

Develop Category Strategy for Shopping

Develop a distinctive and data led category strategy for Deliveroo's Shopping business.

Identify priority verticals and define clear positioning and value propositions.

Translate customer insight and market trends into scalable category growth plans.

Ensure global strategic clarity while enabling flexibility for local execution.

Own Retail Partner Launch & Growth Strategy

Support Commercial teams in onboarding and accelerating growth of priority retail partners.

Develop scalable go to market frameworks and partner launch playbooks.

Lead strong marketing relationships with key retail partners, executing aligned and compelling joint campaigns and offers.

Drive co funded media strategies and integrated marketing plans that unlock incremental growth.

Global Best Practice & Market Enablement

Partner closely with local markets (including UAE and France) to define and embed best in class Retail marketing practices.

Build structured knowledge sharing frameworks to scale winning campaigns, playbooks and promotional strategies.

Identify repeatable growth levers and ensure consistent measurement standards across markets.

Act as the centre of excellence for Retail marketing globally.

Leadership & Team Development

Manage and develop a team of one high impact marketeer.

Set ambitious objectives and clear accountability frameworks.

Foster a culture of innovation, ownership and executional excellence.

Push teams to activate campaigns in bold and creative ways while maintaining operational rigour.

Requirements

Significant senior marketing leadership experience (10+ years), ideally within retail, grocery, marketplace, eCommerce or tech.

Proven experience managing substantial budgets and delivering measurable commercial impact.

Strong experience building and executing multi channel marketing strategies across acquisition, retention and brand.

Demonstrated success in partner stakeholder management and joint business planning.

Experience launching and scaling new propositions, categories or physical locations (e.g. stores, dark stores).

Outstanding organisational and project management capability with exceptional attention to detail.

Analytical and performance driven, with a strong test and learn mindset.

Comfortable operating autonomously in fast paced, high growth environments.

Creative thinker with experience briefing and developing global creative platforms and campaigns.

Experience at a high performing retail, eCommerce or technology company preferred.

Why Deliveroo

Our mission is to transform the way you shop and eat, bringing the neighbourhood to your door by connecting consumers, restaurants, shops and riders. We are transforming the way the world eats and shops by making access to food and products more convenient and enjoyable. We give people the opportunity to buy what they want, as they want it, when and where they want it.

We are a technology driven company at the front line of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world. We are still a small team, making a very large impact, looking to answer some of the most interesting questions out there. We move fast, value autonomy and ownership, and we are always looking for new ideas.

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. Benefits differ by country, but we offer many benefits in areas including healthcare, well being, parental leave, pensions, and generous annual leave allowances, including time off to support a charitable cause of your choice. Benefits are country specific, please ask your recruiter for more information.

Diversity

At Deliveroo, we believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing businesses in a rapidly growing industry.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our hiring process. We recognise that some candidates may require adjustments to apply for a position or fairly participate in the interview process. If you require any adjustments, please don't hesitate to let us know. We will make every effort to provide the necessary adjustments to ensure you have an equitable opportunity to succeed.

Compensation

• We aim to pay every employee competitively for the role they are performing in their respective location
• Depending on role and location, some employees may be eligible for an annual cash bonus, sign on bonus or relocation support
• Up to 5% matched pension contributions

Equity

• Some roles may be eligible for share awards, giving them ownership in Deliveroo and a share in our success

Food

• Free Deliveroo Plus: free delivery and access to special offers
• Team lunches from the best local restaurants

Time away

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with length of time spent working at Deliveroo
• One day of paid leave per year to volunteer with a registered charity

Work Life

• Maternity, paternity and maternity and shared parental leave, eligible from day one of employment
• Excellent kit to enable working from home and a parent friendly working culture
• Access to free mortgage advice
• Cycle to Work Scheme or Season Ticket Loans, depending how you wish to travel
• Excellent learning and development opportunities and access to RooLearn, our learning platform, packed with high quality training and content
• Regular Employee Resource Group (ERG) led social events - examples include dinners, dance lessons and in office yoga sessions

• Funded single cover healthcare on our core plan, with the option to add family members at own cost
• On site gym (HQ), discounted external gym membership
• Access to wellbeing apps such as LesMills+, Strava, Headspace, Yogaia via GymPass
• Discounted dental insurance and a range of other flexible benefits, such as critical illness cover, partner life cover, travel insurance, health assessments
• Life assurance