Strategy and Planning Manager

About the Role

At Uber, the biggest growth opportunities are unlocked through the combination of data, strategy, and execution. As a Strategy & Planning Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping those opportunities - combining analytical rigor with strategic thinking and hands-on execution to influence key business decisions and drive tangible outcomes for our Sales business.

You'll partner directly with regional leadership to shape the strategy that drives merchant growth across APAC. From influencing commercial investments to improving Sales effectiveness at scale.

This is a highly cross-functional role that combines strategy, analytics, and operational execution. You'll work across markets, collaborate with leaders across Sales, Operations, Finance, Marketing, and Product, and help turn ambitious goals into measurable outcomes.

The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, commercially minded, highly analytical, and excited to roll up their sleeves to solve some of our most challenging problems.

What You'll Do

Influence regional strategy

• Partner with senior leaders to define and execute the strategic priorities that drive merchant growth across APAC.
• Use data, market insights, and structured problem solving to identify opportunities, evaluate trade-offs, and inform business decisions.

Solve complex business problems

• Lead deep-dive analyses into critical business questions, uncovering insights and developing recommendations that influence commercial strategy.
• Improve merchant acquisition and activation performance
• Optimise pricing and fee structures
• Evaluate investment opportunities and resource allocation
• Identify new growth levers across markets

Drive operational excellence at scale

• Design and implement scalable processes, frameworks, and operating models that improve performance across the region.
• Partner with local market teams to codify best practices and scale successful initiatives while balancing local market needs.

Lead cross-functional initiatives

• Own strategic projects from problem definition through execution.
• Bring together stakeholders across Sales, Operations, Finance, Product, and Marketing to drive alignment, remove obstacles, and deliver measurable impact.

Turn insights into action

• Move beyond analysis to execution.
• Translate recommendations into practical plans, establish success metrics, and ensure initiatives drive real business outcomes.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in Management Consulting, Strategy & Operations, Investment Banking, Private Equity, or a related analytical role
• Exceptional problem-solving and structured thinking skills
• Strong analytical capabilities and experience working with large datasets
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and influence senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives in ambiguous environments
• Strong commercial acumen and a track record of driving measurable business outcomes
• Advanced SQL proficiency
• Experience with Tableau, Looker, Salesforce, or similar tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a high-growth technology company, marketplace, platform, or consumer internet business
• Experience working across multiple markets, regions, or global organisations
• Experience developing go-to-market strategies, operating models, or commercial growth initiatives

Why This Role?

• Influence strategy across one of Uber's largest and fastest-growing regions
• Partner directly with senior leaders on high-priority business challenges
• Work on problems that span strategy, analytics, and execution
• Gain exposure to multiple markets, business models, and growth levers
• Build solutions that scale across APAC and create measurable business impact

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Ready to Ride?

This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook — it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves — we'd love to hear from you.

You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.

Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.