Sr Strategy & Planning Associate Grocery & Retail

About the Role
You will help us achieve our strategic goals by developing reports and tools to expose analytical insights, work cross-functionally to drive performance, as well as own some of our most ambitious strategic projects/initiatives (from idea to strategy to execution) in Grocery & Retail! You thrive in ambiguous environments, and have a track record of defining and delivering pivotal initiatives that will help enable Uber's next billion dollar businesses.
What You'll Do

• Analyze data and generate insights: Identify trends and build meaningful recommendations based on the analysis, research, customer needs, feedback, and comments from our teams.
• Observe and reflect: As a critical thinker and problem solver observe and understand current operations, processes, and trends. Ask the right questions, and call out the risks and opportunities.
• Report: Develop presentations, reports, and analysis to craft strategy and execution. Own business reporting and team enablement across G&R to increase transparency and define strategic direction for all teams.
• Plan: Work with regional and global teams to decide what gets prioritized and why. Help define and track OKR's, KPI's, governance structures, and build cases for high impact projects. Plug into Uber's financial and product planning process.
• Ideate: Build innovative, scalable strategies, processes and solutions that enable the growth or efficiency across Grocery and Retail.
• Collaborate: Work with cross-functional and senior collaborators across product, operations, marketing, finance, legal, and external partners to gain alignment, and broker effective working. Report to senior leadership on the progress of workstreams, and be the first to flag risks and sensitivities.
• Lead Projects: Lead & execute meaningful projects that drive the business forward. Take accountability for project outcomes and ensure delivery on critical

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional work experience
• Strong project management skills
• Strong Excel / data management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Critical and structured thinking - You have a natural curiosity and confidence to seek out answers, and propose solutions where there may not yet be an answer!
• Analytical - You love SQL and consider yourself to be an expert in Excel/Google Sheets.
• Communication - Strong communication and presentation skills, including experience presenting data & insights to a diverse audience.
• Great Teammate - Collaborates and communicates effectively with cross-functional teams in a constantly evolving, rapid growth environment with tight deadlines.
• Bias for action - Self-motivated, solutions-orientated, with a bias for action and impact.
• Ambiguity - Comfortable with ambiguity and competing timelines.
• Business Savvy - Basic financial proficiency; comfortable understanding P&Ls.
• Strategy / High growth experience - 2+ years' experience in consulting or strategy work, project or operations management, or investment banking or high growth technology company
  

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$124,000 per year - USD$137,000 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.