Sr Strategy & Planning Associate - Retail

About the Role

Uber's mission is to help people go anywhere and get anything, and our Grocery & Retail unit is a fast-growing scaleup within Uber that enables consumers to get just about anything delivered through the Uber Eats app.

As the Senior Strategy & Planning Associate, you will be at the center of data-driven decision making for Uber's Grocery & Retail business in North America. You will play a central role in developing data-driven insight, establishing growth strategy, and ensuring we are on track with the choices we've made through robust governance and reporting.

What You'll Do

- Business Analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of market trends, the competitive landscape, and internal performance data within the Grocery & Retail vertical to inform strategic decisions and deliver actionable insights
- Performance Tracking & Governance: Develop metrics and dashboards to track progress against goals for strategic initiatives and lead regular performance reviews to ensure that the initiatives are on track to achieve their objectives
- Strategic Initiatives: Lead strategic initiatives end-to-end to enhance Uber's retail-related offerings. This includes managing projects like competitive pricing benchmarking, cost savings, and launching new programs or features
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with key cross-functional teams, including Operations, Product, Finance, and Marketing, to develop and implement initiatives that align with the overall strategy
- Strategic & Business Planning: Contribute to the annual strategic and financial planning processes led by the Planning team. Support the development of strategic priorities and assist in translating them into actionable commercial plans underpinned by OKRs and reflected in the financial plan

Basic Qualifications

- 4+ years of experience in a data-driven role within strategy, operations, e-commerce, tech, investment banking or consulting
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, or a quantitative field (i.e. Statistics, Data Science, Engineering)
- Advanced analytical and quantitative skills, including proficiency in SQL and the ability to build and maintain robust strategic, financial and operational models

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience managing cross-functional projects and driving operational improvements with a track record of executing initiatives from planning to results
- Experience in the retail or CPG industry
- Strong familiarity (or appetite to engage with) AI tools to drive efficiency and speed to insight, such as GPT and Cursor
- Effective communicator with the ability to translate data and insights into compelling stories. Comfortable presenting findings and recommendations to diverse stakeholders and leadership
- Demonstrates strong business judgment and critical thinking skills to quickly identify high-value priorities and support the development of strategies to pursue them
- Proven experience approaching data analysis from a structured, hypothesis-led basis, with the ability to create compelling and well-considered narratives and recommendations from the analysis and insights
- Experience in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (such as a tech company, startup, or consulting) where you've had to adapt quickly, tackle ambiguous problems, and collaborate across teams
- A proactive, ownership mentality with a bias for action. Comfortable working independently when needed, and excited to innovate and continuously improve processes in an evolving space
- MBA or other advanced degree in a relevant field

For Canada-based roles: Uber may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our recruiting process; however, Uber employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions. This advertisement relates to a current, existing vacancy.

For Canada-based roles: The base salary range for this role is CAD$123,000 per year - CAD$137,000 per year.