Íñigo Barea, new CEO of Just Eat Spain

Patrik Bergareche steps down after being appointed Senior Vice President for the Southern Europe, New Zealand and Australia region

March 7 () –

Íñigo Barea has been appointed CEO of Just Eat Spain, a subsidiary of Just Eat Takeaway.com, one of the world’s leading online food delivery platforms, replacing Patrik Bergareche, who has been appointed Senior Vice President for the region of Southern Europe, New Zealand and Australia, within which the Spanish subsidiary is part of, according to the platform in a statement.

Specifically, Barea has been on the platform since the beginning of 2020, when he first joined Spain as a ‘country program manager’ and later promoted as head of ‘delivery’ operations.
for Spain, where it has played a fundamental role in the implementation of the logistics model in 80 Spanish cities, leading a team of more than 100 people and thousands of delivery people.

During this time, the new CEO promoted the transformation of a logistics model based exclusively on the hiring of companies specialized in last-mile delivery, towards a hybrid hiring model that already has more than 2,000 indefinite-term contract drivers. .

In addition, Barea led the negotiations with the UGT and CCOO unions for the signing of the first company collective agreement in the sector announced last December 2021.

He previously spent his professional career at Airbus, where he held various project leadership and management roles and as a consultant at AT Kearney.

“I feel very honored to assume the position of general manager at Just Eat Spain. I have had the opportunity to grow in this company in recent years and I am aware of the responsibility that I assume. I thank Patrik Bergareche for the trust and management so brilliant that it has allowed me to get here. I hope to continue in the line of leadership and reference that he has marked in his stage as director
general”, stressed Barea.

For his part, the senior vice president for Southern Europe, New Zealand and Australia, of Just Eat Takeaway.com and member of the executive committee of Just Eat Takeaway.com, Patrik Bergareche Sainz de los Terreros, has been “very proud of promote the internal talent of the company”.

“Throughout these three years, Íñigo has shown extraordinary leadership and management skills. Proof of this has been his fundamental role in creating a pioneering company agreement in our sector, which currently encompasses more than 2,000 distributors in our company with an indefinite contract. I am convinced that his appointment will help Just Eat to continue being a benchmark in the market”, he highlighted.