About the Role
The Senior Strategy & Planning Associate will be a core member of the ANZ Restaurants Strategy & Planning (S&P) team, partnering with country leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders to shape and execute the strategy for Uber Eats Restaurants in Australia & New Zealand.
You will combine deep analytical rigour, strategic thinking, and strong stakeholder management to identify growth opportunities, improve marketplace and P&L performance, and ensure we are executing against our most important priorities.
What You’ll Need
Strategy, Insights & Problem Solving
- Develop a deep understanding of the ANZ Restaurants business, including growth drivers, unit economics, and competitive dynamics.
- Own structured deep‑dive analyses (e.g. city, segment, product, or initiative) to size opportunities, diagnose issues, and recommend clear actions.
- Build business cases and scenario models to inform strategic decisions on investments, trade‑offs, and prioritisation.
Market Intelligence & Growth Bets
- Own market intelligence for ANZ Restaurants Delivery – tracking competitive moves, category and customer trends, and external signals; translate these into clear implications and recommendations for the business.
- Identify, size, and incubate new growth bets (e.g. new segments, products, or models), including framing hypotheses, designing tests, partnering with local and regional teams to execute pilots, and recommending scale‑up or shut‑down based on results.
Planning, Governance & Performance Management
- Support and co‑lead annual and semi‑annual strategic and financial planning cycles for ANZ Restaurants (targets, OKRs, key bets).
- Build and maintain dashboards and reporting to track performance against plan (growth, CP, profitability, HC, key initiative metrics) and surface risks/upsides early.
- Run or contribute to key governance rhythms (e.g. WBRs, MBRs, leadership reviews), driving clarity on what’s working, what’s not, and what we’ll do next.
Cross‑Functional Project Leadership
- Lead end‑to‑end strategic projects (0→1 and scale‑up), from problem definition and analytics through design, alignment, and execution tracking.
- Partner closely with Central Ops, Local Ops, Sales/Account Management, Marketing, Finance, Product, Policy & Legal to land cross‑functional initiatives in the market.
- Translate global strategies into locally relevant plans for ANZ, and ensure local insights are fed back into regional/global roadmaps.
Stakeholder Management & Influence
- Act as a trusted thought partner to ANZ leadership, GMs, and functional leads, providing clear recommendations and framing trade‑offs.
- Drive alignment across senior stakeholders, balancing regional/global priorities with ANZ realities.
Basic Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, operations, investment banking, business analytics, or S&P‑type roles in high‑growth environments.
- Demonstrated ability to turn data into insight and action – from framing the right questions, to structuring analysis, to landing clear recommendations.
- Strong proficiency in Excel / Google Sheets and comfort working with large datasets and financial / operational models.
- Experience leading cross‑functional projects end‑to‑end, with clear impact on growth, efficiency, or profitability.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills – able to synthesise complexity, write crisp docs, and present to senior audiences.
- Strong planning and organisation, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines in a fast‑moving environment.
- High ownership, bias to action, and comfort with ambiguity.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in tech, marketplaces, food delivery, retail, or consumer internet businesses.
- Working proficiency in SQL (or strong appetite to learn quickly).
- Prior experience in ANZ markets or similarly developed, competitive markets.
- Experience influencing decisions without formal authority in a matrixed regional/global organisation.
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI/ML-powered tools (e.g. Claude, Gemini, internal automation or analytics copilots) to speed up analysis, improve decision quality, and automate routine workflows.
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