Head - Strategy & Planning

Head, Strategy & Planning

City Operations, Operations & Launch in Gurgaon, India

The Strategy and Planning Head will champion high priority projects across India. Based in Gurgaon, but working with teams across the region, this role will provide hands-on leadership to help design, prioritize, and implement projects to help this fast growing region scale. Leveraging operational and analytical experience from challenging environments in the past, this role will be instrumental in driving our business forward. We- re looking for someone who can set a vision and can solve problems from 30,000 feet as well as dive deep into the details. This role will work across many functions and teams, in the region and at both our domestic and international headquarters.

As a member of Regional team, you will help support strategic decision making processes throughout the region through your analytics, heavy data driven approach, and operational mindset. The ideal candidate for this role should have strong analytical skills, excellent time-management and organizational habits, and the ability to clearly communicate and present information to seek buy-in.

WHAT YOU- LL DO

- Vision: Working closely with Strategy and Planning Leads and Regional General Managers across the company to align overall company vision.

- Thought Leadership: Working with all General Managers across India to set strategic priorities, align regional and company vision, and share best practices.

- Program/Project Management: Be a hustling multi-tasker, supporting city teams across the 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, and Product.

- Process improvement: Identify operational and structural weaknesses and help improve or innovate new processes to keep our local and regional teams as efficient as possible.

- Scale: Build, maintain, and communicate detailed reporting models to assist city-level, regional, and expansion efforts, and make data driven decisions.

- Build Relationships: Interface with other functional areas (Engineering, Business Development, People Operations, Product, Legal, Finance etc.) to ensure efficient and productive working relationships.

- Lead by example: Be incredibly truth-seeking and finger-tippy with data, set a high bar for the team to think boldly and creatively and then to funnel that energy into concrete processes and execution plans, move fast, be biased toward action.

WHAT YOU- LL NEED

- 6+ years of consulting / business intelligence / strategy or related experience; some high-growth operations or startup experience is strongly preferred.

- Exceptional communication and organization skills.

- Ability to work with remote teams and across time zones to develop strategies and foster a cohesive and creative work environment.

- Balance attention to detail with swift execution - we need to do things quickly, and we need to do them well. Balancing those can be challenging, and this should be a strength.

- Explorer - the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the data we require will make you much more effective in this role. Self-starter attitude is a must!

- A high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with to the products you work on.

- A - driver- personality - biased toward action, great collaborator and master disambiguate/simplifies - constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery.

- Exceptional Excel / data management skills.

- Grittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away.

- 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 actionable insights.

- BS from top university. MBA highly preferred.

- SQL Proficiency strongly preferred.