Strategy & Planning Lead

About the role and team 

Leading Strategy & Planning at Uber means setting direction in motion, not waiting for perfect conditions. You are the gatekeeper of priorities, responsible for turning multi-year visions into concrete execution plans while navigating a wide range of regulatory, competitive, and economic challenges. 

You will get to build the strategy for the next phase of the ridesharing business in Brazil; enable execution by improving planning processes, building a strong and sustainable portfolio strategy to reach all users, and building strong bridges with other local teams to share best practices and identify new opportunities. The Head of S&P Brazil will be responsible for building the strategy for Uber’s largest country, while closely delimiting teams’ priorities to make it happen!

What you’ll do 

• Strategy: Define Brazil’s country strategy and influence LatAm regional strategy. You’ll be responsible for building Brazil’s business strategy to achieve high levels of growth in a highly competitive environment while continuing to improve margins. 
• Thought Leadership: Working with all vertical leaders across Brazil to set strategic priorities, align regional and company vision, and share best practices. Be the thought partner and right hand to Brazil’s General Manager.
• Own the narrative of the country: You will be responsible for communicating the strategy, challenges, and needs of the country to get buy-in and support from regional and global teams to prioritize Brazil’s needs.
• Program/Project Management: Be an inventive, go-get-it multitasker, supporting teams across the country and region. You'll be THE go to person for many key initiatives, not just for Operations, but across key teams within the organization such as Finance, Growth, Marketing, and Product.
• Process Improvement: Identify operational and structural weaknesses and help improve or innovate new processes to improve our operational efficiency
• Stakeholder Management: Foster strong working relationships with leaders from cross-functional and sub regional teams (Engineering, Corporate Development, Marketing, Product, etc.) to ensure efficient and productive working relationships.
   

Basic Qualifications 

• At least 8+ years of investment banking/consulting/strategy or related experience; also high-growth operations or startup experience is very much preferred.
• Bilingual proficiency in Portuguese and English.
• Outstanding communication and organization skills. Ability to effectively communicate to senior leadership both written (documents, emails, decks) and verbally. Team player to develop strategies and foster a cohesive and creative work environment.
• Financial analysis experience to improve our forecasting models and decision making process. 
• Highly analytical with strong problem solving skills to dissect complex problems into simple solutions.
• Clear communicator. You are a clear and concise communicator with the ability to synthesize a lot of information quickly, highlight the key take-aways, and disseminate meaningful insights. Be an exceptional storyteller.
• Balance attention to detail with swift execution - we need to do things quickly, and we need to do them well.
• Self-starter - the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the data we require will make you much more effective in this role.
• A "driver" personality - biased toward action, great collaborator and master disambiguator/simplifier - constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery.
• Exceptional Excel / Google suite / data skills. SQL Proficiency highly preferred
• Grittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and address something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away.

Preferred Qualifications 

• MBA or advanced degree in Economics, Business, or a technical field.
• Demonstrated expertise in project management and governance, with a track record of leading broad-scale, highly visible initiatives.