Sr Strategy & Planning Associate - Retail

Uber Uber · Consumer · New York, NY +2 · Operations

This role is a Senior Strategy & Planning Associate for Uber's Grocery & Retail unit. The primary focus is on data-driven decision making, developing growth strategies, and ensuring strategic initiatives are on track through robust governance and reporting. Responsibilities include business analysis, performance tracking, leading strategic initiatives, cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to strategic and financial planning.

What you'd actually do

  1. Conduct in-depth analysis of market trends, the competitive landscape, and internal performance data within the Grocery & Retail vertical to inform strategic decisions and deliver actionable insights
  2. Develop metrics and dashboards to track progress against goals for strategic initiatives and lead regular performance reviews to ensure that the initiatives are on track to achieve their objectives
  3. Lead strategic initiatives end-to-end to enhance Uber’s retail-related offerings. This includes managing projects like competitive pricing benchmarking, cost savings, and launching new programs or features
  4. Collaborate with key cross-functional teams, including Operations, Product, Finance, and Marketing, to develop and implement initiatives that align with the overall strategy
  5. Contribute to the annual strategic and financial planning processes led by the Planning team. Support the development of strategic priorities and assist in translating them into actionable commercial plans underpinned by OKRs and reflected in the financial plan

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of experience in a data-driven role within strategy, operations, e-commerce, tech, investment banking or consulting
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, or a quantitative field (i.e. Statistics, Data Science, Engineering)
  • Advanced analytical and quantitative skills
  • Proficiency in SQL
  • Ability to build and maintain robust strategic, financial and operational models

Nice to have

  • Experience managing cross-functional projects and driving operational improvements with a track record of executing initiatives from planning to results
  • Experience in the retail or CPG industry
  • Strong familiarity (or appetite to engage with) AI tools to drive efficiency and speed to insight, such as GPT and Cursor
  • Effective communicator with the ability to translate data and insights into compelling stories
  • Comfortable presenting findings and recommendations to diverse stakeholders and leadership
  • Demonstrates strong business judgment and critical thinking skills to quickly identify high-value priorities and support the development of strategies to pursue them
  • Proven experience approaching data analysis from a structured, hypothesis-led basis, with the ability to create compelling and well-considered narratives and recommendations from the analysis and insights
  • Experience in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (such as a tech company, startup, or consulting) where you’ve had to adapt quickly, tackle ambiguous problems, and collaborate across teams
  • A proactive, ownership mentality with a bias for action
  • Comfortable working independently when needed, and excited to innovate and continuously improve processes in an evolving space
  • MBA or other advanced degree in a relevant field

What the JD emphasized

  • Advanced analytical and quantitative skills
  • proficiency in SQL
  • ability to build and maintain robust strategic, financial and operational models
  • Experience managing cross-functional projects and driving operational improvements with a track record of executing initiatives from planning to results
  • Strong familiarity (or appetite to engage with) AI tools to drive efficiency and speed to insight, such as GPT and Cursor
  • Demonstrates strong business judgment and critical thinking skills
  • Proven experience approaching data analysis from a structured, hypothesis-led basis
  • Experience in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
  • A proactive, ownership mentality with a bias for action