Assistant Manager, Planning & Projects

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 Our Team

Grab For Business is the B2B SaaS product line within Grab that helps to simplify business transportation, corporate food & package deliveries for thousands of companies, from large enterprises to SMBs, across Southeast Asia. Our team consists of passionate individuals who are motivated and energized by the fact that we exist to make a change - have a societal impact in Southeast Asia. The overall Sales Planning team works closely with country commercial leaders, sales teams, marketing teams and product teams to ensure maximum impact for our businesses.

Got To Know The Role

• We are looking for an Assistant Manager to support overall planning for GrabForBusiness.
• You will be a balance of analysis, execution and stakeholder management, driving strategic initiatives in collaboration with various teams across business, sales, operations, marketing, product and more.
• You will report into the Senior Manager, GFB Planning & Projects and and be based in Petaling Jaya, working onsite.

Critical Tasks you will perform:

• Strategic planning
  • You will ensure a well-coordinated business strategy, including clear assessment on where the business currently stands and what it should be in the future.
  • You will establish clear plans to realise business strategy, including defining clear business objectives and systematic approaches to achieving them.
  • You will perform analyses on top-of-agenda topics, including providing fact base and problem identification on landscape, customers, business structure etc.

• Lead product ownership.
  • Discovery:
    • You will determine business strategy.
    • You will identify target customer segments (who to build for), gather user requirements (what to build).
    • You will conduct impact sizing and prioritization.
    • You will design and execute proofs-of-concept as needed.
    • You will determine roadmap sequence and launch timings.

• Delivery:
  • You will lead go-to-market, including assembling a GFB-wide team comprising functions with best-fit capability to execute each responsibility (see Responsibility Breakdown for details).

• Lead growth projects.
  • You will develop adjacent business opportunities from analysis, experimentation to operationalization.

Qualifications

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• You have at least 3 years of experience in a fast-paced environment, in a strategy/operations/customer-facing or related role.
• You have a minimum Bachelor's Degree in business, finance, economics, computer science, engineering, or related fields.
• You have a quantitative discipline with business sense and the ability to articulate complex analyses to multiple audiences, translating these into actionable business insights.
• You have superb presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, demonstrated by your capability to synthesize a large amount of information into a clear message.
• You are customer-focused in all aspects of planning and delivery.
• You can look beyond individual issues to identify broader themes with wider-reaching impact.

Nice-to-haves:

• You have experience at a tech software company
• You have SQL will be an advantage

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.

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.