Manager, Strategy & Planning

Job Description

About The Role and What You'll Need

 

About the Role

 

 

We are looking for a Strategy & Planning Manager for the Iberia region, who will partner with the General Manager to deliver strategic projects and help them manage their governance.

1. Someone who can navigate a highly diverse set of stakeholders to drive action and results;
2. Someone with high business acumen that can understand complex problems fast, recommend a practical course of action and follow through.
3. Someone who understands and speaks data, operations and strategy equally well.

 

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

 

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

1. Strategy: Work closely with the Ops leadership and S&P teams across EMEA to create a shared vision and strategic approach for the region and run strategic, consulting-like, projects
2. Planning: Build and maintain financial and headcount models, operational reporting, OKRs, projections, and key business metrics to inform leadership decision making
3. Program/Project Management: Be a resourceful, go-getting multitasker, supporting initiatives across the region by working with cross-functional stakeholders the U.S. and EMEA
4. Scale: Build, maintain, and communicate detailed reporting models to assist city-level, regional, and expansion efforts, and make data-driven decisions
5. Develop Relationships: Interface with other functional areas (Engineering, Business Development, People Operations, Product, Legal, Finance, etc.) to ensure efficient and productive working relationships
6. Execute on projects: Step into operational gaps and help the local teams execute

 

---- Basic Qualifications ----

1. 3-5+ years experience in investment banking, consulting, process optimization, business intelligence and/or strategy.
2. A BA or MA degree in Economics, Business or STEM fields
3. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with exposure to senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
4. Experience in defining solutions to complex, strategic topics with a deeply analytical and data-driven approach to issues
5. Balance attention to detail with swift execution - we need to do things quickly, and we need to do them well
6. Full proficiency in English (mandatory) plus Spanish is required

 

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

1. Self-starter - the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the data we require will make you much more effective in this role
2. Grittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and address something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away
3. Advanced analytical capabilities preferred, including knowledge of statistics and comfort with SQL
4. Experience implementing process optimization frameworks

 

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