Company Description

Life at Grab
At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.

Job Description

Get to know our Team:

The Corporate Strategy team assists the CEO with developing the company’s long term objectives and setting its course. By assessing a broad range of trends and issues that span across markets, customer, competitor, regulatory and technology insights, the team develops winning strategies that will have a significant impact on the company’s growth.

Get to know the Role:

I. Scanning the business environment for insights and trends to identify key growth opportunities for the company that will build sustainable competitive advantages.

II. Translating company-level strategies into actionable functional deliverables and re-allocating business portfolio to align with market opportunities.

III. Driving decision-making and ensure major initiatives are coherent with company strategic direction.

IV. Sustaining the momentum of strategy execution and instilling organisation discipline to realise commitments to strategic plans.

The day-to-day activities:

• Develop and/ or update the company’s strategies on a periodic cadence, including identifying and prioritising major cross-functional initiatives by synthesising:
  I. Internal business performance and competencies
  II. External trends (market, customer, competitor, regulatory, technological etc)
• Provide inputs and advise the CEO and management team on key issues (e.g. strategic initiatives, BU-level plans and major investments) based on clear issue framing, systems-level thinking and rigorous analyses
• Bridge business opportunities with product development via a keen grasp of the business imperatives and clear understanding of the possibilities and / or limitations of technology
• Lead the development of experimental business opportunities including development of baseline capabilities, definition of the parameters of success and ensuring smooth transition to operations
• Support Operations Heads on BU-level strategy and facilitate cross-pollination of best practice and approaches
• Align company organisational structure to achieve strategic objectives including identification of internal capabilities to be developed or strengthened
• Execute the corporate planning rhythm to ensure follow-through of the functional deliverables via discussions, updates and action-tracking (i.e. Secretariat for the Bi-weekly and Monthly Management Meetings)
• Communicate company vision to stakeholders and support translation into operational reality via various channels (e.g. CEO communications, engagements with senior stakeholders etc.)
• Set the agenda for Grab Forward off-sites in line with company objectives and to enable tighter networking within the management team
• Assess proposals for all major initiatives to ensure judicious investment of company resources in line with strategic direction
• Advocate focus on achieving sustainable growth by working with BU leads to design and refine pricing and incentives schemes
• Actively and independently engage with company senior executives to identify new opportunities and to seek alignment on strategic priorities
• Influence a high-performance company culture by challenging critical business assumptions and encouraging cross-functional collaboration
• Drive coherence across functions and business units in order to achieve strategic objectives, including with product, engineering, operations, partnerships functions
• Provide a sounding board to company senior executives by helping to frame initiatives against wider company objectives and external business environment

Qualifications

The must haves:

• A degree with good honours from a top tier university in any discipline
• MBA will be an advantage
• Experience with quantitative analysis e.g. financial modelling and data manipulation
• Ability to construct and deliver clear presentations to senior company executives
• Ability to look beyond individual issues to identify broader themes with wider-reaching impact
• Experience in analysing and quantifying complex strategic issues tied to long term business growth
• Superb presentation and communication skills
• Experience in project managing complex, cross-functional projects
• Creativity and comfortable with ‘blank sheet of paper’ assignments
• A natural leader who displays integrity, humility and responsibility, with excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to empathise and collaborate with stakeholders across functions and at all levels of experience
• A self-starter and independent learner who takes the initiative to challenge the status quo.
• A big-picture thinker who is detail-oriented
• Ability to perform under pressure in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• At least 2-4 years of experience

Additional Information

Our Commitment
We are committed to building diverse teams and creating an inclusive workplace that enables all Grabbers to perform at their best, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or sexual orientation and other attributes that make each Grabber unique.

About Grab
Grab is the leading superapp platform in Southeast Asia, providing everyday services that matter to consumers. Today, the Grab app has been downloaded onto millions of mobile devices, giving users access to over 9 million drivers, merchants, and agents. Grab offers a wide range of on-demand services in the region, including mobility, food, package and grocery delivery services, mobile payments, and financial services across 428 cities in eight countries.

Join us today to drive Southeast Asia forward, together.