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Uber Sr. Strategy & Planning Associate in New York, New York
The US&C Delivery S&P team works closely with US&C Delivery Leadership to define strategy and deliver on key leadership priorities. The team plays an important role in working across all functions to provide strategic planning, reporting processes, and business insights as well as assisting with internal operations to improve alignment, business understanding, and execution.
About the Role
The Sr. Strategy & Planning Associate will own business planning, contribute to US&C strategy, uplevel business insights & analytics, and assist in building (+occasionally executing) overarching strategic priorities for the US&C Delivery business in partnership with the Head of US&C S&P, Delivery LT, and the broader Uber Delivery organization. This role requires equal parts business insight, analytical skills, the ability to set vision (both to seek consensus and set direction for others), plus the humility to lead initiatives across teams.
What You'll Do
Setting strategy: Work in partnership with the Delivery leadership to set the vision, strategy, and goals for the US&C business, and define strategic priorities. You will work closely with and advise business leaders across the organization on topics ranging from specific analyses to annual strategic planning to multi-year visions.
Fact finding: The team uses Uber's rich dataset and external data sources to improve our understanding of our customers and markets to find opportunities and risks that may have a significant impact on the business; be proactive about surfacing robust insights from this data, plus Support and Brand data, with clear recommendations for the team.
Maintaining accountability: Develop and coordinate the governance and accountability models for the team to ensure that we are on track to achieve our goals; own and maintain metrics dashboards and reporting cadences, ensuring key leaders always have the right information in front of them to foster data-driven decisions; Prepare content for regular business reviews
Leading projects: Be the glue that brings teams together to ensure critical initiatives reach our customers and team stakeholders. Be a hustling multi-tasker, driving cross-functional groups to decisions on strategically significant questions.
Building Relationships: Interface beyond the core US&C team with other teams and functional areas (Strategic Operations, Product/Eng, Marketing [Brand, CRM, Performance], Business Development, People Operations, Legal, etc.) to leverage learnings and ensure cohesive business strategy
Basic Qualifications
4+ years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, analytics, tech, finance, or a related field
Working knowledge of SQL
Preferred Qualifications
Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Advanced stakeholder management skills - Experience influencing across functions in a matrix organization
Ability to work with ambiguity
Effective team player
Strong communications skills
Entrepreneurial spirit - willingness to challenge the status quo and move quickly to test and learn new strategies and tactics
An ability to build deep relationships across a broad organization, cultivate a fun and collaborative work environment, and identify problems from different perspectives. Humility and empathy are essential to success in this role
High standards and a bias toward action. You can find the context and information you need through relationships across the organization, you push for clarity and delivery, and you hold a high bar from your contributions and those of the people you work with
Financial acumen - understands the importance of investments and different means of measuring return
Proven ability to go deep and wide on a variety of subjects
Experience balancing multiple priorities within an organization, moving quickly in a rapidly changing environment with tight deadlines
For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$124,000 per year - USD$137,500 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.
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- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdb_Y9Bv8-lWDMbpidF2GKXsxzNh11wUUVS7fM1znOfEJsVeA/viewform