Strategy & Planning GrabFood, Region Assistant Manager
Get to Know the Team
Join the Strategy and Planning team at Grab - the team responsible for driving holistic business health across the GrabFood platform. We don't just own demand; we cover the full picture: supply reliability, merchant performance, and competitive intelligence across the markets we operate in.
We collaborate with Commercial, Operations, and Central Strategy. We are the analytical backbone that keeps the GrabFood business ahead. We conduct performance tracking, gaps analysis, and competitor analysis. Most importantly, we translate insights into decisions that move the business.
Get to Know the Role
You will report to the S&P Head and co-lead the GrabFood outcomes for your managed region. As the primary S&P counterpart to Region Operations and Commercial leadership, you will help to shape prioritization.
You will both translate Central S&P direction into region-level execution and feed region-level insights upward to shape central strategy - bridging ground-level visibility with leadership-level decision-making. You will lead the regional S&P analyst team, raising the analytical bar and ensuring output quality across the board.
You will be based onsite in Jakarta. You will be required to travel regularly for market visits and leadership forums.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- Lead the region's performance narrative, connect signals across demand, supply, and competition into a valuable insights
- Set the analytical agenda for the region on prioritization, deep-dive analysis/investigation, and escalation before it surfaces in the topline numbers
- Maintain an understanding between Region Operations and Commercial, resolve issues, and execution
- Develop analyst(s) in the team, ensure data-driven decision-making, maintain quality and reliability of team's output
- Represent the region in leadership forums — City Pulse Check, Business Reviews, and planning cycles — with structured, decision-ready recommendations
- Identify strategic risks and opportunities, and surface them to the Strategy & Planning Head with clear solutions
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- Minimum 5 years of experience in strategy, analytics, or business management at a management consulting firm, tech company, or e-commerce business
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar fields
- High owernship — you treat the business as your own, set high-quality standard on the team around you, and move with urgency when it matters
- Business accumen - able to connect data to decisions and frame recommendations for senior partners
- Lead, influence, and align teams without direct authority
- Experience managing and coaching junior team members
- Proficiency in SQL and data analysis tools; comfort with Python and data visualization platforms is an added value
- Business-level proficiency in English, both written and spoken
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.
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.
Meet the Business Strategy team
Our business strategy teams are here to break down complex issues and drive data-led decision-making within Grab. Work with teams across the business, diving into data analysis and crafting success plans to build our superapp.
Everyone here at Grab is so open – problems might arise, but our sole focus is always to find the solution. We also get to meet new friends all the time at Grab. Whatever fun activities you would usually do with friends, we get to do them here together.
“ ”
My team consists of people with different personalities and backgrounds, and we cherish our differences. We also have different skill sets which complement each other.
“ ”
At Grab, people are very kind, very open, very smart, and encourage everyone to generate new ideas. If the idea is acceptable and justifiable, then we have a very open path for sharing.
“ ”
The Application Process
What can you expect when you apply for a role at Grab? Here’s what our hiring process looks like.
Step 1: Apply.
We have a range of open roles from Marketing to Engineering and everything in between. Find the one that’s best for you and show us why you’re our next teammate.
Step 2: Getting to know you.
Next, you’ll have a video or phone interview with one of our recruiters to chat about you, the role, and your past work experiences.
Step 3: Testing, testing… 123.
Some roles might require assessments and/or a technical competency interview. For other roles, there might be an additional interview – speak with your recruiter for application details.
Step 4: Is it a culture match?
Finally, we’ll find out how we fit together, if your career vision aligns with our mission, how you embody the 4 H's, and your working style and personality.
