Strategy & Planning Associate

1 week ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates Careem Full time

**About the team**

Careem Grocery is a hyperlocal, on-demand eCommerce platform that offers customers access to a variety of supermarkets, convenience stores, pharmacies and specialty merchants. As an exciting new vertical within Careem (a startup within a startup), we’re in the early stages of launching our product and have many interesting, yet fundamental challenges to solve in order to achieve our ambitious growth goals in this burgeoning space.

**What you‘ll do**

You will work closely with the Strategy & Planning team to steer implementation on specific components of the Grocery strategy while collaborating effectively with relevant stakeholders from markets and central functions.

Strategy Implementation
- Support markets on strategy implementation and ongoing business performance
- Identify focus areas based on inputs from markets, functions and a deep understanding of users
- Build strong relationships with markets and capture their needs: Understand the market context, collate requirements/feedback
- Enable effective and efficient execution by sharing the best practices across markets
- PMO large cross functional initiatives related to strategic priorities to drive impact
- Facilitate product roll outs on a needs basis: drive adoption, govern go to market process

Insights & Analytics
- Keep a tab on market trends and insights across e-Grocery ecosystem, and identify opportunities for Careem
- Structure the analyses needed to answer key business questions, perform analyses and derive insights using SQL and excel
- Communicate data and market insights in a concise and structured manner, and feed them into the various cross-functional forums and strategic discussions

Problem Solving
- You identify strategic topics for Careem, lead organizational thinking for problem solving and get buy-in from executive leadership (resources, strategy, org)
- You generate creative solutions, accounting for long-term benefits. Identify adjacent problem and/or opportunity areas

**What you’ll need**
- Relevant Master’s education background, especially MBA, Strategy, Management,
- Economics, Finance or Computer Science / Engineering from a top-tier academic institution
- 1-2+ years of experience in professional environments specially working with technology companies
- Strong analytical and communication skills (both verbal and written) - comfortable with PowerPoint and Excel
- SQL proficiency is a must
- Strong team-play, comfortable with cross-team collaboration

**Where you'll be**
- Even though we are working remotely, we are strong believers in collaboration and the power of building social connections with our teams. For that reason, our offices are still open and provide plenty of collaboration-friendly spaces at times when teams need it or if you need a quiet space to work outside of home.
- You’ll be working in the location you’re hired from. Due to legal and compensation considerations, you will need to be based out of the country you’re hired from as your primary work location.


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