Manager / Senior Manager, Strategy & Planning

**Company Description**
“To be the most loved everyday food and groceries destination” - that’s our mission at foodpanda (small ‘f’).

foodpanda is the largest food and grocery delivery platform in Asia, outside of China. Operating in more than 400 cities across 11 markets, we continue to expand and grow in our core food delivery business, as well as in new verticals like grocery deliveries, with a strong tech infrastructure at our core. From our restaurants-partners, cloud kitchens and cloud grocery stores — foodpanda is just one tap away, getting everything you need into your hands quickly and conveniently

If you love working with technology to create solutions and are not afraid to roll up your sleeves to get things done, you will find your tribe here at foodpanda. foodpanda comprises of people from more than 60 nationalities, and we believe in winning through diversity.
foodpanda is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide

We are looking for a Strategy and Planning Manager, to join our Strategy & Planning team which specializes in country marketing & growth strategy. **The Strategy and Planning Manager will combine deep analytical skills, exceptional strategic thinking and superior organization/project management capabilities to help the regional marketing team analyze, improve and execute growth strategies across the region.** This includes regular reviews of incentive and pricing ROI, subscriptions performance, performance marketing efficiency, and brand media impact in order to build a cohesive view of issues and opportunities in each market. You will also be responsible for budgeting and will be a key partner to finance in order to manage and optimize the budgeting process, including planning of annual budgets and operationalisation of any changes that happen within the year. Finally, you have the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and possess excellent communication skills in order to clearly convey ideas and influence top management.
- Weekly performance management on key topline KPIs and OKRs in order to analyse issues/opportunities and recommend action plans to each market on how to course correct
- Monthly Performance Reviews with analysis of incentives campaigns, pricing, subscriptions, performance marketing and brand media
- Quarterly market level deep dives to provide a comprehensive 360 view of what’s working/not across all marketing channels in order to unlock growth opportunities
- Strategic thought partner to local teams on how to drive growth, including sharing of case studies across the region to scale best practices
- Manage OKRs including monthly performance management, analysis of trends and re-modelling of targets once per quarter
- Build projects to drive OKRs, leveraging on other cross-functional teams within regional marketing
- Identity and lead process improvement opportunities on measurement and tracking of performance
- Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders across regional and local teams to influence any changes in strategy and drive growth in the region

**Qualifications**
- Quantitative mindset & proven analytic capabilities. You have passion for working with numbers, are meticulous in your work and have fine attention to detail
- Advanced proficiency in Powerpoint, Excel and SQL mandatory
- Superior strategic thinking skills
- you are able to zoom out to see the big picture and derive the ‘so what’ behind data just as easily as you can dive into the details in order to build long-term strategies
- Exceptional project management and interpersonal skills with the ability to manage timelines, delegate actions and drive accountability within large cross-functional teams
- Exceptional organization and time management skills with the ability to build and automate processes at scale
- Strong sense of ownership to work independently, multitask and prioritize in a fast paced environment
- Comfortable navigating ambiguous situations where you may not have 100% of the information, you don’t let this stop you from moving forward
- Excellent communication skills in order to clearly convey ideas and influence top management
- Experience working within a regional role and/or matrixed organization mandatory
- Knowledge of the e-comM/Food delivery industry preferred