Director, Global Growth

Global Teams Spain

Barcelona, Spain

Media Production / Marketing & Advertising / Engineering

Full-time
Company Description

We’re Adevinta, a global leader in digital marketplaces. Our household name brands, including marktplaats in the Netherlands, Mobile.de in Germany and Leboncoin in France, reach hundreds of millions of people every month.

We’re all about matchmaking, and our sites help people find whatever they’re looking for in their local communities - whether it’s a car, an apartment, a sofa or a new job. Every connection made or item found makes a difference by creating a world where people share more and waste less.

Our brands are supported by global Tech Hubs in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin. Their goal is to develop common global products and innovation platforms which all of our brands can use. This means using cutting edge technology to create highly scalable, customisable and secure products and components that free up development time and leverage our access to global data.

**Job Description**:
As Director of Global Growth, you shape & design Adevinta´s vision and strategy for continued growth. You help our local marketing teams achieve their ambitions through scalable marketing services and solutions, while maintaining the ability for local CMOs to run their brands effectively and creatively.

**Your focus areas are**:
SEO and organic search

Paid Digital Marketing

Marketing CRM

The team's purpose is to drive local user growth efficiently at global scale. We achieve it by partnering with local and central teams on:
Strategy & guidance.

Knowledge-sharing.

Enablers (data, tracking, tools, talent)

Execution.

You are part of Adevinta’s Central Product & Technology organisation, and your teams work hand in hand with the global product and data teams to leverage our Marketing Technology and data enablers. You report into Adevinta’s Chief Product & Technology Officer and are a member of the central P&T leadership team.

**Qualifications**:
Skills & Competencies

Extensive knowledge of the Growth domain, ideally in a multi-brand or distributed organisation.

Digital marketing domain expertise, including marketing technology, performance marketing, CRM and ideally branding.

You bring a good understanding of the possibilities of online marketing data and technology. Therefore, exposure to Advanced Data & Analytics, SEO and Product development will be a strong plus.

Cross-functional experience and sensitivity / A proven track record of effective cross-functional collaboration.

A balanced mix of strategic thinking and pragmatism.

Data-driven.

Solid planning, resource and stakeholder management skills.

Traits and Behaviours

Visionary leader, able to mobilise the organisation towards new growth opportunities

Outstanding Communicator, with the ability to communicate advanced marketing & growth concepts to a wide range of audiences, from engineers to executive business stakeholders

Low-ego, collaborative approach to teamwork. You create trust, and you bring an unselfish and humble attitude to everything you do

Ability to separate signal from noise, able to help the leadership team understand the key issues and decisions to be made, setting aside less critical decisions and working with our teams to resolve these

Pragmatic, able to see the wider picture whilst honing in on the key actions that drive the Adevinta strategy forward, constantly adding value whilst keeping the end goal in mind

Strong ability to influence beyond organisational boundaries and reporting lines through trust, expertise, and relentless and selfless focus on value

Self-motivated and self-directed, comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity

Additional Information

What you’ll get from us

Competitive compensation package

A unique position in an international and dynamic environment

Opportunity to shape the way we work. Your feedback and opinions are valued at all levels of the organisation

The chance to be a key player in a growing, highly skilled team

Great colleagues and a healthy working environment

Benefits including private health insurance, stock purchase plan and bonus

Flexibility to work when and how you want - flexible hours, choose your phone and computer

Career development, including individual training budget and language classes

Flexible benefits programme (transport, restaurants, child-care, etc)

Free daily breakfast

26 days of holiday

Additional Information

Adevinta is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

**Flexibility**: We believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. So we provide flexible hours and remote working options that give you the autonomy and scope to set your own agenda and working patterns. We empower our teams to decide which key moments they want to spend face to face, i