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 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
- Scanning the business environment for insights and trends to identify key growth opportunities for the company that will build sustainable competitive advantages.
- Translating company-level strategies into actionable functional deliverables and re-allocating business portfolio to align with market opportunities.
- Driving decision-making and ensure major initiatives are coherent with company strategic direction.
- Sustaining the momentum of strategy execution and instilling organisation discipline to realise commitments to strategic plans.
This headcount will report to Director, Corporate Strategy, based onsite at our One North Office.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- Develop and update company strategies, prioritizing major cross-functional initiatives by analyzing internal performance and external market trends.
- Provide strategic advice to the CEO and management team on key issues, such as strategic initiatives, business unit plans, and investments, using rigorous analysis and systems-level thinking.
- Bridge business opportunities with product development by understanding business imperatives and the possibilities or limitations of technology.
- Lead experimental business development initiatives, defining success parameters, establishing baseline capabilities, and smoothly transitioning them to operational execution.
- Align organizational structure to strategic objectives by identifying and strengthening required internal capabilities and processes.
- Execute corporate planning and track functional deliverables, organizing updates and action items during management meetings and company-wide off-sites to align with objectives.
- Assess major proposals for initiatives and investments to ensure alignment with strategic direction, sustainable growth, efficient resource allocation, and business coherence across functions.
Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- A degree with good honours from a top tier university in any discipline, MBA an added advantage
- At least 2+ years of experience
- 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
- Creativity and comfortable with 'blank sheet of paper' assignments
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.
