Sr Strategy & Planning Associate

About the Role

• Global S&P Planning & Ops team is responsible for leading key Planning processes for CommOps including financial planning, strategic planning and operational target setting
• The mission of the Planning & Ops team is to enable CommOps to plan, measure and communicate progress against highest priority financial and operational goals across global strategic pillars
• In this role, you will be responsible for leading a high visibility and strategic process for CommOps driving alignment across multiple senior stakeholders

What the Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Lead key financial and operational planning processes for CommOps including Annual Planning, Long Range Planning and Half Yearly Planning
• Lead the improvement of planning processes based on stakeholder feedback and planning post mortems
• Ensure clarity of roles and responsibilites through continued stakeholder discussions and cross CommOps alignment
• Work with regional and global S&P / business planning teams to develop and curate the Planning processes to meet the needs of Global First
• Strategically assess and influence the development of each CommOps team's internal performance reviews, cadence and material to the CommOps LT

---- Basic Qualifications ----

• Bachelor's degree in Business / Economics or other quantitative fields
• 3+ years of strategy consulting, corporate strategy, program management, or financial planning

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

• MBA or PMP
• 5+ years of strategy consulting, corporate strategy, program management, or financial planning
• Experience assessing, improving, and independently running strategic budget & operational planning processes for high-growth teams
• Explicit experience building business cases for cost savings/investment opportunities
• Ability to create and communicate frameworks for driving cross-functional decision-making using data and principled assumptions
• Advanced analytical & presentation skills; e.g. Excel / Google Sheets, analysis of financial trends / KPIs, PowerPoint / Google Slides, etc.
• Understanding of financial metrics and experience working with such metrics
• Excellent organizational and program management skills; ability to build and execute against interdependent timelines
• Experience with Chief of Staff / Program Management Office / executive communications, and the attention to detail required to be successful in those capacities
• Excellent written and verbal executive communication skills
• Exposure to support operations, including a working knowledge of standard support operational health metrics like customer satisfaction, defect rate, contact rate, etc. and how they influence support economics

For New York, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$124,000 per year - USD$137,500 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

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