Senior Growth Strategy Manager, Uber Direct

Uber Uber · Consumer · London, United Kingdom · Operations

This role is for a Senior Growth Strategy Manager at Uber Direct, focusing on driving long-term commercial relationships with restaurants in the UK. The responsibilities include developing growth plans, managing P&L, optimizing operations and commercials, performing data analysis, and piloting new strategic initiatives. The role requires strong analytical skills, commercial acumen, communication, project management, and stakeholder management abilities. While the role mentions comfort with AI tools, its core function is business growth and strategy, not AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive growth: Develop plans in conjunction with your assigned accounts to expand their business through growing sales (e.g., operational excellence, effective marketing, new locations deployment)
  2. P&L and Commercial & Operational Excellence: You will build long-term relationships with our key accounts and be the main point of contact from Store Manager to HQ, focusing on improving their operations and optimising commercials
  3. Analysis and Problem Solving: Quantify everything you do. Utilise an analytical approach to understand the performance of initiatives to ensure you are effectively prioritising those with the highest return on investment
  4. Proactiveness: This role will require fast thinking on your feet and moving swiftly through fire drill situations
  5. Strategic Initiatives: This role will have the opportunity to pilot new features, operating models, commercial structures which can be playbooked and scaled across Uber

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of customer or client facing experience ideally in Account Management, or Management Consulting. Previous experience setting and achieving business targets
  • Analytical Skills - Comfortable with AI tools, data analysis, excel, SQL, presenting findings and recommendations. Data driven decision making mentality and sound business judgment through strong analytical thinking
  • Commercial Acumen - Understanding of how businesses and organizations work and how to navigate a partner’s business
  • Communication - Excellent communication skills and the ability to manage diverse stakeholders across businesses and levels
  • Project Management - Able to create meticulously detailed execution plans for large-scale projects (e.g., launching a new product, onboarding a major enterprise) and then deliver them to plan regardless of any surprises or ambiguity along the way
  • Stakeholder Management - experience working with cross-functional stakeholders, e.g., commercial, analytics, technical, legal teams
  • Highly autonomous, self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity - able to come up with new ideas and execute them autonomously

Nice to have

  • Eagerness to learn - Go Get It attitude
  • Critical thinking capabilities
  • Knowledge of Last Mile Delivery space

What the JD emphasized

  • Analytical Skills - Comfortable with AI tools, data analysis, excel, SQL, presenting findings and recommendations. Data driven decision making mentality and sound business judgment through strong analytical thinking
  • Project Management - Able to create meticulously detailed execution plans for large-scale projects (e.g., launching a new product, onboarding a major enterprise) and then deliver them to plan regardless of any surprises or ambiguity along the way
  • Highly autonomous, self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity - able to come up with new ideas and execute them autonomously