Get to know the role:
Business Data Analysts are responsible for driving the analytics that surface opportunities in our Strategy & Planning team. You will draw on your analytics and business knowledge, available metrics, insights from teammates, and your industry experience to know where to best focus quantitative efforts for maximum impact. You're capable of executing independently and are energized by ambiguity.
We are a highly cross-functional team and recognize we have the most success in working together, and as a result you will build strong cross-functional partnerships with our partner teams. You're curious, driven, and excited to make a significant impact in helping achieve the company's mission.
The day-to-day activities:
You will work with large data sets and derive business recommendations through compelling statistical evidence-based research and visualization:
- Run SQL queries, provide reports or updates
- Define key metrics to evaluate the health of our business teams & programs
- Discover & drive program initiatives through data driven recommendations and partner with cross-functional teams to implement/launch them
- Manage data models to bring order and insight to complex datasets
- Leverage existing Python abstractions and/or other visualization tools to design and develop new user-facing tools & dashboarding systems to empower partner teams
- Communicate findings from data and analyses to senior stakeholders, influencing them to make the best decisions possible
- Design market intelligence metrics and performance measurement dashboards for GrabFood
- Develop frameworks to analyze business problems, develop hypotheses, mine data, deliver recommendations, and assess impact of proposed solutions
- Perform analysis & research plans to support decision making process
- Able to partner closely with all business stakeholders within GrabFood, transport and other cross-functions to set and implement strategy
- Manage end-to-end data projects; identifying issues, gathering information from various sources, analyzing data, interpreting patterns, and trends with the purpose of generating insights about the market
- Conduct industry analysis and research with respect to competitive market trends to drive business insights
- Support to design and refine pricing and incentives schemes.
Key requirements:
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics), or equivalent experience.
- 2-5 years of work experience in consulting or a technology-related analytical role
- Curiosity and passion for Grab
- Strong analytical skills, with experience solving ambiguous problems using data and providing practical business insights
- Strong process-oriented skills and drive to find the most efficient way to do things without sacrificing a high quality of work and/or results
- Proficiency in SQL & Excel
- Ability to partner cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, operations, product management, and/or sales
- Familiarity with Python or a similar scripting language for analytical contexts is a plus
- Experience in working with large data sets and distributed computing tools (Presto, Athena) is a plus
