Assistant Manager, Growth Strategy & Planning

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

Join the Regional Growth Strategy & Planning team, a vibrant tapestry of diversity, where members from across Southeast Asia, spanning different backgrounds such as business, economics and computer science, come together to improve user growth at Grab.

Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. We engage with a broad spectrum of stakeholders to lead impactful solutions. We influence by deeply understanding business priorities and the specific needs of users in each market.

We pride ourselves on the practical approach to addressing challenges. Our innovative solutions are designed to be actionable and create a real impact.

If you're passionate about making meaningful contributions in a diverse and collaborative environment, we welcome you to join us on this exciting journey.

You will report to the Manager, Growth Strategy & Planning and work onsite in Petaling Jaya

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for Growth Strategy & Planning Assistant Manager to join our Regional Growth Strategy & Planning team. You will play a pivotal role in identifying main growth priorities for your market through data-driven insights and collaborate across functional teams to implement growth plans. Your strong logical reasoning and structured approach will be essential as you navigate market research, trend analysis and performance metrics to fine-tune growth plans. In this role, embracing an 'always day one' mindset is critical as we adapt and innovate to remain at the forefront of growth.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Strategic Planning: You will leverage market performance metrics, local insights and user research to identify main gaps and/or opportunities in user growth for your markets. Lead select prioritized growth problem spaces and design solutions to drive immediate user impact for the year.
• Performance monitoring: You will routinely monitor key growth indicators to assess health across the consumer funnel. Support analyses to identify quick actions to bridge any gap.
• Execution Excellence: You will drive the execution of growth experiments, working closely with Marketing and Operations teams. Ensure alignment on success metrics, timelines and resource allocation. You will conduct post-mortem analysis to fine-tune / scale experiments.
• Stakeholder management: You will maintain frequent and open communication with country teams, serving as the key bridge between local and regional teams. Ensure local business nuances are understood and regional learnings are shared with the local teams.
• Continuous Innovation: You will role model a culture of innovation and experimentation within the team. Lead with a focus on encouraging creative approaches and calculated risk-taking to achieve breakthrough growth solutions.
  
  

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You will need minimum 3 years of experience in strategy development / user strategy / growth marketing or related roles, ideally within startup environment.
• You will thoroughly evaluate results and extract relevant insights from data and market trends. Familiarity with SQL is advantageous.
• You will need to have experience in influencing senior management and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• You will need to be independent and proactive, independently initiating and advancing projects to achieve measurable results.
• You will need to continuously seek opportunities for growth and innovation.
  
  

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours
  
  

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.