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Remote International Expansion Lead

hace 1 mes

Oxford

📣 A bit about the role. Do you love collaborating with a diverse set of teams to deliver critical and high-impact projects, to help build one of Europe’s fastest growing DTC brands? If your tail is wagging, keep reading… As part of the Strategy team, reporting to the Head of Strategy, you’ll play a key role in bringing Butternut Box and our sister brand Marro, to new markets across Europe and beyond. You’ll help make sure we bring the highest quality to everything we do at Butternut, to allow us to continue to scale over the years and decades ahead. We’re building a multi-generational business and this role will be pivotal to making that happen. We're looking for a self starter with extremely high attention to detail, an organisational powerhouse, who is able to influence and motivate a variety of teams each with varying priorities. You'll have ownership of our international market launches from the very beginning and will be responsible for managing them until they're integrated into the wider business. You’ll play a key role in making judgements and the freedom to continually question and optimise the way that we do things, to help us always strive for better. If you’re someone who is comfortable with a dynamic workload, thriving on complex stakeholder management and throwing yourself into chunky projects to get them delivered, we want to hear from you. 🌿 In this role, you can expect to: Plan and deliver new market launches, guiding teams from all across the business to deliver successful outcomes (70%) • Manage multiple international launch projects at once from kick-off to Day 1 launch, identifying interdependencies, mapping out timelines and ensuring risks don’t materialise into blockers., • Ensure the long term ambitions of Butternut and Marro are being prioritised in decision making throughout a launch (thinking on a 10 year time horizon at least), • Champion and celebrate the wins of your peers in the project teams, keeping everyone engaged and excited about launches (helping dogs and cats live happier and healthy lives is exciting) 🙌., • Manage day-to-day action tracking and stakeholder comms and reporting., • Facilitate the necessary project meetings and working sessions to keep everyone aligned., • Manage and present company-wide communication on major project milestones., • Once a market is up and running, act as the representative of that market in all global forums until a country manager and local team are fully onboarded and integrated into the business., • Act as an ambassador of our Butternut culture in all you do, channelling this into new markets but leaving space for localisation and cultural nuance. Bring rigour and quality to our international expansion process (30%) • Design and codify delivery playbooks, templates and tools to support ‘best practice’ project execution for Butternut globally, including the smart use of AI to make our launches more efficient., • Seek ways to improve on our company operating processes and rhythm, helping us to run more efficiently and stay on track towards company goals as we become increasingly international., • Ensure that resources (ie. time, people, budget) are managed efficiently whilst keeping quality, our customers and the brand a priority. 👋 A bit about you. • Experienced and assured in your abilities (must have 5+ years of experience in a strategic role, ideally leading on complex programmes with multiple stakeholders)., • Relevant experience managing multiple high visibility cross-functional projects (simultaneously) from start to finish - this could be internally or in a client facing role as a consultant or project manager., • Holds exceptionally high standards for operational excellence and makes things happen., • Excellent communication skills - ability to present information and stakeholder expectations succinctly and clearly, in the best way to suit and influence your audience., • A highly analytical problem-solver - not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get stuck into a complex question., • Excellent at managing stakeholders, including Senior Leadership - demonstrated ability to work with a variety of teams with different ways of working (such as Brand & Creative, Marketing, Product Development, Procurement & Supply Chain, Digital Product, Technical, Ops.), • A good understanding of commercial and financial KPIs, ideally in a DTC setting, and the impact actions may have on them., • Highly skilled at Excel, Google Sheets, Google Slides / Powerpoint and project management tools required to build out timelines and track tasks and actions., • Ideally, holding a Project Management qualification - Prince2, Agile PM, APMP, PMI or similar. However, for the right person Butternut would sponsor this. 📢 Our interview process: • Application review, • Initial call (45 minutes): Introductory chat with our Recruiter., • Take home task: This will be sent to you via email and will be used to understand more about your technical skills., • Technical interview (45 minutes): Remote interview where you’ll be asked a number of scenario and competency based questions., • Final interviews (45 minutes) : In person interviews in our office in White City where we will want to understand how your values align with our business values. 🐶 A bit about us. At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions. #LI-Hybrid As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment. Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us. 🙌 A bit about what we offer. • 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service, • 5 paid 'paws' days per year to support to learning and/or wellbeing, • £500 personal learning & development budget, • Butternut Box employee discount, • Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks’ maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave), • BEST OFFICE EVER, • Flexible working hours and work from home options, • Cycle to work scheme, • Pension with NEST, • Private Medical Insurance with Vitality, • Private Dental Insurance with Bupa, • Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss, • Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut, • Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts, • Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Brio, Basil, Chorizo, Lenny, Jasper, Peggy, Pip and many more….) ❗️A few things to note: • Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives., • As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance., • We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career. #LI-Hybrid

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