Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 50 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.
About the Team
The Food Strategy & Planning team works with all functions to set the direction for our global Food business using market and customer insights. The S&P team also manages strategic cross-cutting programs.
About the Role
The team is looking for an enthusiastic and driven professional who can lead the Strategy & Planning function for Careem Food. It is a high visibility role that requires strong stakeholder management skills to drive outcomes and push our thinking to new levels.
Key responsibilities
Strategy development:
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 need
The ideal candidate would be someone who has 10+ years of work experience in strategy, analytics and project/program management roles (experience in a high-growth tech startup or a consulting environment highly desirable). Additional qualifications and skill sets include:
What we’ll provide you
We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a Careem colleague you will be able to:
Understand the required skills and qualifications, anticipate the questions you may be asked, and study well-prepared answers using our sample responses.
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