Strategy & Planning Associate
Uber
Administration, Operations
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2023
About The RoleWe are looking for an associate to join our South Cone Strategy & Planning team (Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).The team is responsible for leading our long-term growth strategy, annual planning cycle, business forecasting, and governance of business cadences.
This Role Calls For The Following
- Someone who can navigate a highly diverse set of stakeholders to drive action and results
- Someone with a high business sense that can understand complex problems fast, recommend a practical course of action, and follow through
- Someone who understands and speaks data, operations, and strategy equally well
- Strategy: Work closely with the leadership and S&P teams across Latam to build a shared vision and strategic approach for the region and run strategic, consulting-like, projects
- Planning: Build & maintain financial and operation models, operational reporting, OKRs, projections, and key business metrics to advise leadership decision making
- Hands-on execution: Scale, build, maintain, and communicate detailed reporting models to assist the operation while also stepping into operational gaps to help the local teams implement strategic initiatives
- Project management: Be a resourceful, go-getting multitasker, support strategic bets that are being incubated or require strategic leadership and support across the region
- Develop Relationships: Collaborate with other functional areas (Business Development, People Operations, Product, Marketing, Legal, Finance, Rides, Eats, Cornershop, etc.) to ensure efficient and productive working relationships
- Full proficiency in English
- 5 years of experience in consulting, process optimization or strategy
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with exposure to senior partners and cross-functional teams
- Balance attention to detail with swift execution - we need to do things quickly, and we need to do them well
- Self-starter, the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the data we require will make you much more effective in this role
- Grittiness, never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and address something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away
- Experience in defining solutions to complex, strategic topics with a deeply analytical and data-driven approach to issues preferred
- Experience implementing process optimization frameworks preferred
- Sophisticated analytical capabilities preferred, including knowledge of statistics and comfort with SQL