Senior Sales Manager - Strategic Accounts

Job Description

As Senior Sales Manager of Strategic Accounts, you will lead efood’s partnerships with Greece’s most important international and local restaurant chains. Your mission is to drive mutual, sustainable growth by building long-term strategic relationships and leveraging efood’s platform, commercial solutions and services to unlock new business opportunities.

You will lead and develop a team of Senior Key Account Managers responsible for strategic partnerships at chain level, alongside SMB Account Executives managing individual franchise locations, ensuring that central agreements translate into measurable growth and business impact across the entire store network.

Beyond traditional account management, you will combine strategic thinking, commercial expertise and hands-on leadership to unlock growth and deliver lasting value for both efood and its partners.

This is a unique opportunity to shape strategic partnerships at efood, Greece’s leading delivery platform, drive mutual growth with the country’s most prominent restaurant brands, and play a key role in shaping the future of the delivery industry.

What you'll do

Own Strategic Partnerships & Commercial Growth

• Define and execute the commercial growth strategy for efood's most important restaurant partners, taking ownership of revenue growth, partner retention and long-term commercial performance.

• Build trusted, long-term relationships with senior executives and key decision-makers of leading international and local restaurant chains, acting as a strategic business partner.

• Lead complex commercial negotiations and structure mutually beneficial agreements that balance partner growth, commercial competitiveness and sustainable profitability.

• Develop and execute Joint Business Plans with strategic partners, translating shared ambitions into clear growth priorities, commercial initiatives and measurable business outcomes.

Unlock Growth Through Our Ecosystem

• Identify and unlock growth opportunities by leveraging efood's ecosystem, including advertising, promotional solutions, network expansion and adoption of additional services.

• Leverage data, market insights and commercial performance analysis to identify untapped potential and drive growth at both brand and individual-store level.

• Proactively identify and remove growth barriers, challenge existing approaches and lead initiatives that accelerate performance for both efood and its partners.

• Prioritize growth initiatives and commercial investments based on their expected business impact, scalability and return.

Turn Strategy Into Execution

• Ensure that centrally negotiated agreements and Joint Business Plans translate into measurable results across partners' franchise store networks.

• Drive alignment and execution across Senior Key Account Managers and SMB Account Executives, connecting chain-level strategy with individual-store performance.

• Partner closely with Marketing, Product, Operations, Logistics, Finance and other teams to unlock growth opportunities, resolve business challenges and continuously improve the partner experience.

• Establish structured business reviews, monitor key commercial KPIs and provide accurate forecasts, performance updates and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.

Lead & Develop a High-Performing Team

• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of Senior Key Account Managers and SMB Account Executives, fostering commercial excellence, accountability and an ownership mindset.

• Set clear growth, revenue and performance targets, ensuring effective prioritization, structured account planning and consistent execution.

• Build a performance-driven culture, empowering your team to think strategically, challenge assumptions and proactively identify business opportunities.

• Build scalable account management capabilities, best practices and ways of working that continuously elevate team performance.

Qualifications

Who you should be

• A commercially driven leader with an owner's mindset, capable of translating ambitious growth objectives into measurable business results.

• A strategic thinker with strong commercial judgment, able to identify and prioritize opportunities while balancing short-term performance with long-term partnership value.

• An exceptional relationship builder and hands-on negotiator, confident in engaging C-level executives, leading complex commercial negotiations and closing strategic deals.

• A data-driven decision-maker with strong analytical and financial acumen, able to turn insights into action, evaluate commercial trade-offs and prioritize investments.

• An inspiring people leader with a proven ability to coach and develop senior commercial teams, drive accountability and build a high-performance culture.

• A hands-on, results-oriented professional who thrives in fast-paced environments, challenges the status quo and drives execution with speed and ownership.

• A collaborative and influential leader who can align cross-functional stakeholders, remove blockers and mobilize teams to deliver shared business objectives.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Commercial Leadership, Strategic Account Management, Strategic Partnerships or Business Development, ideally in complex B2B environments.

• Proven track record of managing high-value strategic accounts, leading complex commercial negotiations and delivering measurable revenue and business growth.

• Demonstrated experience leading, coaching and developing senior commercial teams, with accountability for business performance and results.

• Strong analytical and financial acumen, with the ability to translate data and market insights into actionable commercial strategies and investment decisions.

• Experience in marketplaces, food delivery, QSR, FMCG, technology or other fast-paced commercial environments will be considered an advantage.

• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage senior executives effectively. Fluency in Greek and English.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Marketing or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Additional Information

• We recognize good work and we want our people to feel appreciated! That’s why we offer an attractive remuneration package for what you bring in! 💰

• We share a passion for food, so you will certainly appreciate the ticket restaurant card 💳 to spend in restaurants and/or food supplies. We are efooders after all!

• We take care of you with Private Medical & Life Insurance from day #1 to keep you healthy and safe! 🍎

• We prioritize your mental health 🧠 and offer round-the-clock access to an online mental health platform. You can schedule unlimited therapy sessions with certified psychologists and coaching sessions with experienced coaches.

• We want you to grow with us 🚀 ! And to help you keep improving, we provide you access to our online training platform where you can study 📖 topics for your personal and professional growth!

• Are you a cappuccino lover ☕? Do you desperately want a cookie? Our inhouse cafeteria got you covered!

• If you want to stay in shape 🏋️ , our in-house gym awaits you fully equipped!

• We are passionate about exploring, growing & learning and our Global Mobility plan is created to help our people find their purpose around the world! 🌎

• Saving for the future? We’ve got your back! Our Pension Plan helps you invest in tomorrow while you enjoy today! 💼

• Free efood pro Subscription: Perks of the job! Enjoy a complimentary efood pro subscription for free deliveries and exclusive discounts on your favorite meals and groceries. 🍔 

• We support your growing family and we offer a childcare allowance for each individual child 🍼
  
   

Life @efood:

At efood, we constantly have chances to raise the bar improving, innovating, and challenging ourselves to grow! 🏔️

We take ownership of what we do, embracing challenges, and making things happen! ✔️

We move with pace to deliver value fast, which keeps us ahead, always balancing speed with quality! 🚀

We stay humble ❤️ as we grow and dive deep🔍 in situations, asking questions & exploring beyond the surface to get the best solutions!

We bring good vibes by lifting each other up, focusing on what’s possible, and being the kind of teammate everyone wants on their side! 🙏

We’re a fast-growing, dynamic team where every efooder has the opportunity to shine, grow, and be part of something exciting.

Hungry enough to join us? 

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