Global Head of Retail Excellence

Job Introduction

The Global Head of Retail Excellence will contribute to the achievement of the Service Operations vision, mission, and ambition by defining & delivering the business process for Category Development & Value Pricing and establishing clear growth platforms for core Food & Beverage categories in conjunction with Global Supply Mgt and Food Platform.

Role Responsibility

• Sets vision for growth of core retail food business categories and works with regional teams to unlock with plans, tools, processes and leveraging of key vendor partners as necessary.
• Consumer engagement champion – focusing on ways to build and develop engaging ways to activate sales through identified channels, services and branded experiences.
• Dexterity to work cross market/culture/maturity to support food transformation across the globe
• You will be the owner of core processes, tools and training and will need to support vision/strategy delivery

The Ideal Candidate

To be successful in this role, you will possess the ability to establish strong, effective and collaborative relationships with Region Food Service Platforms, Data Labs, Supply Management, Deployment & Planning teams, Research and Innovation, Finance and Market Segments (Marketing, Operations, Sales) and IST.

You will drive change and lead the organisation towards a new way of working, leveraging in-Region expertise ensuring continued evolution and growth of core retail business and the development, deployment and embedding within key Food Transformation priorities for the group.

Package Description

Competitive Salary and excellent benefits.

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.  

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. 

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.