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 the Team

The Merchant Strategy Team is now finding a teammate to join our motivated team on this Rocketship with the mission to empower merchants with economic opportunities while making lives easier for all Thais. Our team operates with consumer centricity, and intelligence rigor. As a member of the team, you will shape the future of GrabFood.

Get to Know the Role

• As a leader on our strategy team, your mission is to make our merchant selection unbeatable.
• You will lead the strategy for our strongest competitive advantages: GrabThumbsup (our flagship curation brands) and Only at Grab (our exclusive brand partnerships).
• You will pioneer how users explore food on our app by leading a new content discovery flow.
• You will manage a high-performing team and act as the central business owner, connecting operations, product, and marketing to drive market leadership.

The day-to-day activities:

• Premium Selection Strategy: Serve as the business owner for our curated restaurants and exclusive partnerships.
• You will define the commercial strategy, set growth targets, and deliver recommendations to top management on how to outpace rivals through superior selection.
• New Product Go-To-Market: Lead the end-to-end commercial rollout and project management for Local Life. You will design the strategy to monetize and scale in-app content—like reviews and local guides—while maximizing return on investment and user engagement.
• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a high-performing team. You will translate high-level vision into daily operational targets for acquiring and promoting top-tier brands.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Act as the primary business lead for these programs. You will steer alignment across Marketing, Commercial, Product, and Public Affairs so your team's projects launch flawlessly and create measurable revenue impact.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Leadership & Strategy: Define the north star for GrabThumbsup, delivering valuable business insights, vision, and high-level recommendations to top management to lead market leadership.
• You will lead the end-to-end project management and commercial strategy for the Local Life content discovery feature, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to maximize ROI.
• You will be the primary strategic node. You will steer cross-functional understanding across Marketing (MKT), Commercial, and Public Affairs (PA). This alignment will ensure your team's initiatives translate into measurable business revenue .

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• PASSION in the F&B industry; from street food to casual café and restaurant to premium food to social sellers; from Bangkok to upcountry markets.
• 5+ years of experience at a management consultancy firm, top-tier tech company, or dynamic working environment with a focus on overarching business strategy, P&L ownership, and complex project management.
• People management experience: leadership, mentor, and empower direct reports (such as GTM leads) to achieve high-impact results.
• Able to ask structured questions to solve complicated problems. Turn questions into insightful answers and solid working plans.
• Outstanding stakeholder management, communications, and presentation skills are required to align diverse cross-functional teams and influence senior leadership.
• Advanced data analytics: Able to extract high-level insights from raw data, build strategic cases, and guide your team on execution.

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.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.