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Strategy & Planning Associate

Uber

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
What You'll Do
  • 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
What You'll Need
  • 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
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.