About the Role

Uber’s mission is to help people go anywhere and get anything, and our Grocery & Retail unit is a fast-growing scaleup within Uber that enables consumers to get just about anything delivered through the Uber Eats app

As the Senior Strategy & Planning Associate, you will be at the center of data-driven decision making for Uber’s Grocery & Retail business in North America. You will lead the development of critical insights, frameworks, and analytical strategies to inform and guide business performance, strategic initiatives, and optimize operational execution.

What you’ll Do:

• Business Analysis: 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.
• Strategic & Business Planning: Support the annual strategic & financial planning processes, developing strategic priorities and translating them into actionable commercial plans underpinned by OKRs and manifested in the financial plan.
• Performance Tracking & Governance: 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.
• Program Management: 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.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with key cross-functional teams, including Operations, Product, Finance, and Marketing, to develop and implement initiatives that align with the overall strategy.

Basic qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, or a quantitative field (i.e. Statistics, Data Science, Engineering)
• Experience: 4+ years of experience in a data-driven role within strategy, operations, e-commerce, tech, or consulting.
• Analytical Skills: Advanced analytical and quantitative skills, including proficiency in SQL and the ability to build and maintain robust strategic, financial and operational models.
• Project Management: Experience managing cross-functional projects and driving operational improvements with a track record of executing initiatives from planning to results.

Preferred qualifications

• Advanced Degree: MBA or other advanced degree in a relevant field.
• Industry Expertise: Experience in the retail or CPG industry
• Communication: Effective communicator with the ability to translate data and insights into compelling stories. Comfortable presenting findings and recommendations to diverse stakeholders and leadership.
• Data Driven Mindset: 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.
• High-Growth Environment: 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.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: 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.

For Chicago, IL-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$116,000 per year - USD$128,500 per year.

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$129,000 per year - USD$143,000 per year.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$129,000 per year - USD$143,000 per year.

For Washington, DC-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$129,000 per year - USD$143,000 per year.

For all US locations, 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 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.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.