Senior Manager, Growth Strategy & Planning
Get to Know the Team
The Regional Growth Strategy & Planning team shapes Grab's user growth agenda across Southeast Asia. We help leaders make informed decisions about growth priorities, product direction, and resource allocation across markets, products, and user segments.
We collaborate with Product, Commercial, Marketing, Analytics, and country teams. By combining an understanding of users and the business with pragmatic problem-solving, we turn strategic insights into scalable, measurable outcomes.
Get to Know the Role
You will shape Grab's regional user growth agenda by identifying and prioritising opportunities across markets, products, and user segments. You will develop strategic recommendations and robust business cases that improve growth decisions, resource allocation, and execution.
You will align senior stakeholders, influence product and business roadmaps, and establish scalable planning, governance, and performance-management practices.
You will lead a small team, report to the Regional Head of Growth Strategy & Planning, and work onsite at Grab's Singapore office.
If you are excited about turning complex growth opportunities into measurable regional impact, we encourage you to apply.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- Shape the regional user growth agenda: You will identify and prioritise high-impact opportunities across markets, products, and user segments, balancing growth potential, user impact, and business trade-offs.
- Guide investment and resource allocation: You will develop business cases and portfolio recommendations that guide investments in funding, time, and organisational resources, supported by clear outcomes, risks, and success measures.
- Influence roadmaps and align stakeholders: You will partner with Product, Commercial, Marketing, Analytics, and country teams to translate growth priorities into roadmap decisions, navigate competing priorities, and secure commitment.
- Establish governance and improve performance: You will build scalable planning frameworks, governance rhythms, and performance-review mechanisms that clarify ownership, monitor outcomes, surface risks, and enable timely course correction.
- Lead innovation and team development: You will coach and develop your team while using GenAI and other latest technologies to accelerate analysis, test ideas, improve decision quality, and scale effective ways of working.
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- You have 8 or more years of relevant experience, including management consulting and an in-house growth strategy, corporate strategy, or business-planning role.
- You have experience identifying and prioritising high-impact opportunities, structuring ambiguous problems using hypothesis-driven thinking, and developing pragmatic recommendations grounded in business context.
- You have led complex, cross-functional, and multi-market programs from strategy through implementation, including establishing governance and delivering measurable outcomes.
- You have partnered with Product, Commercial, Marketing, Analytics, and country teams to shape roadmaps and secure commitment through execution.
- You have experience influencing senior leaders without direct authority by presenting evidence-based recommendations and building trusted working relationships.
- You have managed and developed a team, including setting direction, prioritising work, and coaching team members, supported by strong analytical and commercial capabilities in forecasting, financial modelling, and opportunity evaluation.
- You have experience engaging with AI tools and latest technologies to enhance productivity, improve workflows, support experimentation, and contribute new ideas.
Preferred: Experience working in a consumer technology platform, digital marketplace, or similarly complex environments
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.
View our location
Nestled in the vibrant heart of Singapore is Grab's Global HQ! Take a tour of our office here, meet some of our teams and find out what it’s like to work in this vibrant cosmopolitan.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
