City Operations Manager, Uber Eats, Belgium

Uber Uber · Consumer · Brussels, Belgium · Operations

City Operations Manager for Uber Eats Belgium, focusing on strategic growth, expansion, stakeholder management, innovation, and operational excellence. Requires data analysis, business case building, and execution of proof-of-concepts. Blends consulting rigor with operational execution.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and execute a data-driven vision for Uber Eats Belgium. Synthesize interconnected KPIs—balancing growth and penetration with marketplace efficiency—to align local teams under a common goal.
  2. Own the strategy and alignment across all key stakeholders. Drive the country strategy forward by influencing local operations and commercial teams to meet ambitious targets without direct reporting lines.
  3. Become an innovator at the core. Use daily local insights to identify opportunities, work with Strategic Finance to build business cases, secure buy-in, and execute proof-of-concepts (POCs).
  4. Develop a forward-looking understanding of the competitive landscape, regulatory trends, and macroeconomic factors to proactively position Belgium for success and scale local playbooks regionally.
  5. Stay close to the SMB (Small and Medium Business) landscape while maintaining a heavy focus on operations, ensuring that timeliness, order quality, and reliability standards are met at scale.

Skills

Required

  • Operations experience
  • Management Consulting experience
  • Investment Banking experience
  • Strategy & Planning experience
  • Operationalizing strategy
  • Delivering measurable results
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Analytical skills
  • SQL proficiency
  • Excel/Google Sheets proficiency
  • English fluency
  • French or Dutch fluency

Nice to have

  • High-impact, autonomous role
  • Hands-on strategist
  • Pivot between deep data analysis and ground-level execution
  • Primary bridge between local commercial and operations teams
  • Consulting rigor
  • Boots on the ground operational execution
  • Synthesize interconnected KPIs
  • Balancing growth and penetration with marketplace efficiency
  • Influence stakeholders
  • Take smart risks on new innovations
  • Navigate complex competitive landscape
  • Own the strategy and alignment across all key stakeholders
  • Drive the country strategy forward
  • Meet ambitious targets without direct reporting lines
  • Use daily local insights to identify opportunities
  • Work with Strategic Finance to build business cases
  • Secure buy-in
  • Execute proof-of-concepts (POCs)
  • Develop a forward-looking understanding of the competitive landscape
  • Regulatory trends
  • Macroeconomic factors
  • Proactively position Belgium for success
  • Scale local playbooks regionally
  • Stay close to the SMB landscape
  • Heavy focus on operations
  • Ensure timeliness, order quality, and reliability standards are met at scale
  • Proven track record of operationalizing strategy
  • Proven track record of delivering measurable results in a fast-paced environment
  • Highly comfortable making difficult, data-backed decisions
  • Articulate the 'why' behind complex tradeoffs to senior and local stakeholders
  • High proficiency in SQL and Excel/Google Sheets
  • Derive actionable insights
  • Build scalable tools
  • Resourceful 'doer'
  • Comfortable moving from high-level narrative building to the granular details of day-to-day operations

What the JD emphasized

  • data-driven vision
  • marketplace efficiency
  • stakeholder management
  • innovator at the core
  • build business cases
  • execute proof-of-concepts
  • competitive landscape
  • regulatory trends
  • operational excellence
  • timeliness
  • order quality
  • reliability standards
  • data-backed decisions
  • complex tradeoffs
  • SQL
  • Excel/Google Sheets
  • actionable insights
  • scalable tools