Assistant Manager, Business Planning, Regional SMB Ads

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

GrabAds allows Advertisers, Agencies, and Merchants to engage the Grab Audience via innovative online and offline advertising experiences. Through our unique ecosystem and transacting user base, our clients are able to reach their desired audiences at scale, while driving measurable business outcomes.

We would like You to join our journey to create value for our users, drivers, merchants, and advertising partners, while continuing to make everyday lives better across Southeast Asia.

Get to Know the Role

As part of Regional GrabAds SMB Strategy & Planning team, you will support various regional business development initiatives and co-create strategic business plans to drive self-serve ads growth. Promote and deliver self-serve advertising services to Grab's ecosystem participants. You'll work cross-functionally with leaders from GrabAds, Product, Marketing, Food & CE and relevant stakeholders to identify compelling advertising solutions for broad merchants adoption.

An ideal candidate will embody a strategic business mindset, analytical. Enjoy exploring ideas with internal function stakeholders. Understanding business levers and how to piece critical drivers together to grow business. The candidate will also enjoy challenging the status quo, chasing results, diving deep into troubleshooting and working with their peers to share solutions and raise the bar for the entire team. We hope this sounds like you and you are excited about this opportunity!

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Strategic Persuasion: Co-create and execute strategies and special projects to grow business potential via cross-functional and country enablement.
• Performance Tracking: Oversee performance tracking, analysis, and reporting to ensure the financial health of business operations. Identify opportunities and escalate issues in collaboration with the data analytics team.
• Market Intelligence: Conduct industry and trend analysis to identify opportunities for innovation and differentiation.
• Business Insights: Consolidate and synthesize critical business insights for opportunities, learnings, and provide direction for business decision-making.
• Leadership Alignment: Manage business review cadences and executive updates for leadership alignment.
• AI & Process Innovation: Champion an AI learner/builder mindset by proactively identifying opportunities to leverage AI tools to identify business opportunities, automate workflows, build lightweight solutions, and drive operational efficiency.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Possess a BS/MS degree in mathematics, statistics, data science, business analytics/management, engineering, computer science, or another quantitative major.
• 4-5 years of experience in strategy, market research, consulting experience or related analytical roles.
• Sound understanding & experience of digital Ads Ecosystem.
• Demonstrate a strong analytical aptitude and a keen interest in strategy.
• Self-driven, curious, passionate about being involved in the business, growing fast, and able to adapt to a high work pace.
• High AI & Digital Fluency: A strong curiosity and willingness to learn, adopt, and build with emerging tech and AI tools to solve complex business problems faster.
• Ability to use data analysis and visualization tools such as Excel, SQL, Tableau, etc. is preferred.
• Excellent communication & presentation skills with the ability to transmit across different level stakeholders.
• Be a skilled project manager and a high-EQ team player, capable of managing expectations in a fast paced environment.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.

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 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.