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Join St1 in shaping the future of convenience food across the Nordics!

Are you a strategic, commercially driven leader with a passion for retail food excellence? We are looking for a Nordic Convenience Retail Food Lead to lead and drive the food category in the Nordics.

In this role, you will lead a Nordic team of category for food, build strong partnerships, and drive initiatives that elevate profitability, customer satisfaction, and market position within one of the most dynamic categories in St1´s business.

The location for the role is Stockholm.

As our Convenience Retail Food Lead Nordic, you will:

• Lead and inspire the Nordic food category team while actively contributing to the Convenience Retail & Category Management leadership group.
• Own and optimize wholesale contracts and supplier agreements across all Nordic markets.
• Drive strategic alignment by ensuring best-practice sharing across countries and build alignment between marketing, category and operation.
• Deliver strong financial performance by owning budgets, forecasts, targets, and ensuring sustainable margin growth.
• Shape the future assortment through data‑driven assortment and pricing strategies aligned with business goals.
• Safeguard quality and compliance with food safety standards, labeling requirements, and internal training.
• Build impactful partnerships, both internally and externally to strengthen St1’s brand, and market position.

You are a confident and experienced leader who thrives in a Nordic, cross‑border environment. You enjoy working collaboratively and are a strong team player. With a solid analytical mindset, you are comfortable working with numbers and making insight‑driven decisions. You are motivated by driving performance, continuous improvement, and innovation, and you bring energy and commitment to developing both people and business.

• Proven leadership experience in multi-country, cross-functional environments.
• Strong commercial understanding of retail.
• A highly analytical, data-driven mindset with strong business acumen.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A relevant university degree and senior management experience.
• Fluency in English.

St1 is an energy transition company with the vision to be the leading producer and seller of CO₂-aware energy. St1 operates in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom. St1’s energy portfolio encompasses oil products, biogas, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), renewable diesel (HVO) and solar power. Furthermore, St1 is advancing various major energy transition projects, including transition investments at the oil refinery in Gothenburg.

St1 has 1.250 retail stations in Finland, Sweden and Norway. St1’s retail network offers marketplaces with fuels, growing number of EV charging and biogas filling points for heavy duty transport as well as car wash, alongside stand-alone convenience stores and restaurants. St1 employs more than 1,000 people.

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The recruitment for this position is carried out in collaboration with Signpost. If you find this opportunity interesting and feel ready for the next step in your career, we warmly welcome your application! The final application date is March 15.

If you would like more information before applying, you are welcome to contact Recruitment Consultant Anna‑Sofia Renman at +46 708 178 399, [email protected], or Anna Rydbacken at +46 709 815 873, [email protected].

We look forward to hearing from you!