Associate Director - Strategy and Planning, Food
Careem
- Dubai
- Permanent
- Full-time
Lead the development of comprehensive, data-driven strategic plans. Identify emerging trends and opportunities, converting them into structured plans for execution.Business planning:
Oversee half-yearly and annual planning cycles (strategic, financial, people), collaborating with country GMs and cross functional teams to align their objectives with the strategic plan. Convert plans into goals/KPIs to be closely managed across the half/year.Governance/Performance:
Establish and manage a robust governance framework to drive accountability and decision making, enabling the business to outperform plans. Work closely with Finance for P&L oversight, promptly calling out risks and opportunities.Program Management:
Lead work streams and projects independently in cross-functional settings. Mitigate risks and obstacles to ensure project success.Industry and competition:
Continuously monitor industry trends and gather competitive intelligence to identify opportunities/threats and feed into plans/strategy.Analytics and insights:
Work closely with the data & analytics team to uncover strategic insights that help shape future plans, projects, etc. and aid regular decision making. Communicate insights into concise and well presented manner to be used in leadership forums.Org/Operating model:
Partner with Global GM to ensure the right organizational structure is in place as the business evolves.What you'll needThe ideal candidate would be someone who has 5+ years of work experience in strategy, analytics and project/program management roles (experience in a high-growth tech startup and/ or a top-tier consulting environment highly desirable). Additional qualifications and skill sets include:
- Top notch problem solving and analytical ability
- Exceptional communication skills with a spike on executive communication
- Strong program management and change management skills
- Strong commercial and business acumen (in food tech is a bonus)
- Must be able to build and deliver structured and compelling narrative including presentation material
- Is passionately curious about the business and the market
- Is able to collaborate effectively and build stakeholder relationships
- Is solution-oriented and practical
- Is ambitious, self-driven and acts like an owner
- Incredibly strong stakeholder manager that can hold others accountable
- Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
- Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
- Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
- Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year.
- Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.
- Required