Strategy & Planning Analyst (in Dubai)

What You‘ll Do

• You will work closely with the Strategy & Planning team to steer implementation on specific components of the Grocery strategy while collaborating effectively with relevant stakeholders from markets and central functions.
• Strategy Implementation
• Support markets on strategy implementation and ongoing business performance
• Identify focus areas based on inputs from markets, functions and a deep understanding of users
• Build strong relationships with markets and capture their needs: Understand the market context, collate requirements/feedback
• Enable effective and efficient execution by sharing the best practices across markets
• PMO large cross functional initiatives related to strategic priorities to drive impact
• Facilitate product roll outs on a needs basis: drive adoption, govern go to market process
• Insights & Analytics
• Keep a tab on market trends and insights across e-Grocery ecosystem, and identify opportunities for Careem
• Structure the analyses needed to answer key business questions, perform analyses and derive insights using SQL and excel
• Communicate data and market insights in a concise and structured manner, and feed them into the various cross-functional forums and strategic discussions
• Problem Solving
• You identify strategic topics for Careem, lead organizational thinking for problem solving and get buy-in from executive leadership (resources, strategy, org)
• You generate creative solutions, accounting for long-term benefits. Identify adjacent problem and/or opportunity areas

What You’ll Need

• Relevant Master’s education background, especially MBA, Strategy, Management,
• Economics, Finance or Computer Science / Engineering from a top-tier academic institution
• 1-2+ years of experience in professional environments specially working with technology companies
• Strong analytical and communication skills (both verbal and written) – comfortable with PowerPoint and Excel
• SQL proficiency is a must
• Strong team-play, comfortable with cross-team collaboration

Where you'll be

• Even though we are working remotely, we are strong believers in collaboration and the power of building social connections with our teams. For that reason, our offices are still open and provide plenty of collaboration-friendly spaces at times when teams need it or if you need a quiet space to work outside of home.
• You’ll be working in the location you’re hired from. Due to legal and compensation considerations, you will need to be based out of the country you’re hired from as your primary work location.

What we'll provide you

• Be part of a Remote-First organisation
• Work from any country in the world for 60 days a year
• Use Unlimited Vacation days throughout the year
• Access fitness reimbursements for health activities including: gym, health club and training classes.
• Work and learn from great minds
• Create impact in a region with untapped potential
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day
• VPN is required to respond to a vacancy