Head of Leadership Development

Company Description

Wolt is a technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to home or to the office. Our local commerce platform makes it easy for customers to order whatever they need on one app, for merchants to make additional sales, and for couriers to make meaningful earnings flexibly. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local commerce platform to retail software and financial solutions, as well as operates its own grocery stores under the brand Wolt Market. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 27 countries today, 23 of which are with the Wolt product and brand. 

So, why work at Wolt?

At Wolt, we’re about getting things done.
You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people.
We work hard to make cities into better places, and it’s pretty cool seeing us grow every week. If you’re passionate about building things that just… work, Wolt might be for you.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together.

Job Description

Are you a leadership development expert that has a knack for delivering engaging global programmes? Are you interested in scaling a leadership development function from the ground up? If so, then please read on!
Role background 
Wolt is a Finnish technology company founded in 2014 with a mission to make our cities a better place for our customers, merchants and courier partners. In the past 10 years, we’ve grown to over 10,000 people across 27 countries, with over 1,000 team leads.
Having such a large leadership population demands a robust development programme. While we have leadership principles in place, and some basic training that covers introductory and tactical bits, we’re now looking to accelerate all aspects of leadership development across the globe - that’s where you come in! 

Sitting within our small-but-mighty People Development team, you’ll work closely with your teammates, while also collaborating with senior leaders, People Business Partners, as well as our friends from DoorDash in the States. Working with a ‘one team’ approach, you’ll be hands-on in building and scaling programmes for all teams and countries on a priority basis. This includes revamping all instructor-led, ‘train the trainer’ and eLearning courses, while also looking to add cultural and team-based nuances wherever relevant.

What’s our ambition here, you might ask? Well, the goal is to achieve a truly world-class global leadership development framework that works for all teams and levels of seniority.

What you’ll be doing:

• Bringing our leadership principles to life by creating a clear framework of expected skills and behaviors at all leadership levels.
• Working cross-team to build and deliver ‘scalable’ training and coaching programs that equip our leaders with the required skills and capabilities, while also being hands-on in delivering training, coaching, and hosting events where appropriate. 
• Building central toolkits and ‘how to’ guides for each step of the leadership journey. 
• Fostering a culture of knowledge sharing among peers and coaching and mentoring between experienced and ‘first-time’ leaders.
• Collaborating with our people partners and senior leaders to improve understanding of our evolving leadership development priorities across Wolt, to proactively encourage growth.
• Evaluating and reporting on the impact of leadership development initiatives against key people metrics, such as performance, retention, and engagement.
• Keeping abreast of current and ‘future of’ leadership trends, and converting this into practical learning experiences to keep upskilling front of mind. 

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in developing global leadership programs - you must have successfully navigated through various cultural nuances and leadership styles.
• Solid background within an in-house HR/L&D environment - specifically creating and delivering a variety of training methods, such as eLearning, classroom, coaching, mentoring, training the trainer etc. 
• Ability and motivation to both work strategically and build the roadmap, as well as being ‘hands-on’ in delivering and executing what needs to get done.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with specific experience in guiding senior leaders through change.
• Must be able to work and communicate effectively in English. 
• Obsessed about people's experience - everything must be built through the lens of our people! 
• Fluency with using data to report on progress and inform future decisions.
• Possessing curiosity and a growth mindset, and consistently looking to develop skills.
• Previous experience from tech companies, scale-ups, and hypergrowth firms is a big plus.

Additional Information

If you are excited about working in a high-growth environment, taking ownership, and being part of an extremely ambitious team, then click below to apply and get the conversation going!
You will fit into a truly diverse team across 27 countries - what really matters to us is a caring and welcoming environment where we embrace uniqueness and celebrate diversity. Experience a company culture where we work on eye level, decisions are made quickly and knowledge sharing, as well as mentoring, is on our daily agenda.

What you’ll get by joining us

• Opportunity to be part of building something exceptional, in an international environment
• Lots of learning and growth in a globally scaling tech company
• Along with a competitive salary, you will also be eligible for our stock option plan

If you have any further questions about the position, you can turn to:

Orsi Kocsis, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - [email protected]

Please note that we do not accept applications sent by mail. You should submit your application through our careers website!