Strategic Planning Senior Associate

Strategic Planning Senior Associate, GrabFood Thailand

Get to know the role:
Responsible for planning and supporting GrabFood Thailand in formulating business strategy and key initiatives to drive growth and efficiency

The day-to-day activities:

• Guide business strategy, develop deep understanding of what drives growth and efficiency for our business, partner to translate insights into action across teams

• Develop frameworks, define metrics and manage performance, identify team metrics and OKRs that align with business goals, design/build dashboards, and track progress

• Lead operational reviews of the business to drive decision making and review progress on regional goals and priorities

• Identify opportunities of outsized growth potential, partner with teams to spot areas of step change impact through analysis and industry benchmarks. Provide business analytic strength to help drive initiatives critical to growth and efficiency

• Develop and shape go-to-market strategy/plan for expansion opportunities e.g. new markets, products or businesses, vertical deep dives, organizational restructuring

The must haves:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business, Engineering or other quantitative fields

• Excellent communication and organization skills

• Fluent in English both written and spoken

• Distinctive problem solving and analysis skills, ability to solve complex and diverse business problems (commercial, operational, organizational) via strategic frameworks, data extraction, quantitative analysis, and data visualization

• Results and detail-oriented, with strong intuitions on how to solve problems creatively and quickly, dependable and reliable with timely follow-up skills.

• Experience in financial modeling in Excel and building presentations in PowerPoint

Bonus points:

• Comfortable using SQL / Tableau / Python / R

• Experience in Management Consulting/Investment banking

Get to know Grab:

Grab is more than just the leading ride-hailing and mobile payments platform in Southeast Asia. We use data and technology to improve everything from transportation to payments and financial services across a region of more than 620 million people. We work with governments, drivers, passengers, merchants, and the community, to solve critical problems in Southeast Asia.

Grab began as a taxi-hailing app in 2012, but we have since extended our product platform to include GrabCar, GrabShare, GrabBike, GrabHitch, GrabExpress, GrabFood, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabCycle. We recently launched our fintech platform – GrabFinancial, which consists of payments, lending and insurance. Our latest addition is GrabVentures, an in-house incubation platform. We are focused on pioneering new commuting and payment alternatives for drivers and passengers with an emphasis on convenience, safety, and reliability. Currently, we offer services in 8 countries. Our R&D offices are in Singapore, Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Jakarta and Vietnam. We aspire to unlock the true potential of Southeast Asia and look for like-minded individuals to join us on this ride.

If you share our vision of driving South East Asia forward, apply to join our team today.