Strategy & Planning Associate - Marketplace Efficiency and Competition, GrabFood Medan

Get to know the Role:

Support the GrabFood City GM and Strategy and Planning team in formulating strategy and key initiatives for GrabFood to grow in Medan. You will dive deep to understand the merchant, driver partners and consumer sides of the business and provide recommendations to improve key metrics of the organization. You will be in charge of monitoring our competitor’s initiatives and assessing our corresponding plan of action. ​

The day-to-day activities:

• Design market intelligence metrics for GrabFood
• Manage a team of contractors to ope rationalize market research initiatives
• 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

The must haves:

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field

• At least 1 year of experience working in working in Management Consulting / Business Intelligence / Market Research / investment banking / e-commerce

• Advanced written and spoken English

• Experience in business analysis and corporate planning

• Ability to use various metrics to analyse complex cases, as well as experience in data extraction and manipulation

• Ability to manage and providing direction to teams 

• High level of adaptability in working in a high pressure working environment

• Dependable and reliable with timely follow-up

• Willingness to get dirty and be hands on with market research initiatives as needed

• Results and detail-oriented, with strong intuitions on how to solve problems creatively and quickly