Job Description

Job Title Strategic Projects Manager

Description

About the Team

Careem Grocery is on a mission to reinvent the way people shop for grocery, pharmacy and retail products. As an exciting new vertical within Careem (a startup within a startup), we're in the early stages of building our product and have plenty of interesting and fundamental challenges to solve in order to achieve our ambitious growth goals in this burgeoning space.

Work closely with the Head of Grocery to steer implementation on specific components of the Grocery strategy while collaborating effectively with relevant stakeholders from markets and central functions

What you'll do

Key responsibilities

Support markets on strategy implementation and ongoing business performance

Identify focus areas based on inputs from markets, functions and a deep understanding of users

Build strong relationships with markets and capture their needs: Understand the market context, collate requirements/feedback

Enable effective and efficient execution by sharing the best practices across markets

PMO large cross functional initiatives related to strategic priorities to drive impact

Facilitate product roll outs on a needs basis: drive adoption, govern go to market process

You build trust and transparency between your team and external stakeholders through your ability to adapt your communication to your audience.

You can remove bottlenecks and resolve tough situations by clarifying, debating and driving decisions.

You leverage all stakeholders' resources and knowledge and utilize it to deliver better solutions.

You collaborate with a wider range of stakeholders including Legal, Marketing, Design, PR, Care, other verticals, and 3rd party partners

You identify strategic topics for Careem, lead organisational thinking for problem solving and get buy-in from executive leadership (resources, strategy, org)

You generate creative solutions, accounting for long-term benefits. Identify adjacent problem and/or opportunity areas

What you'll need

Relevant Master's education background, especially MBA, Strategy, Management,

Economics, Finance or Computer Science / Engineering from a top-tier academic

institution

6+ years of experience in professional environments specially working working with technology companies

Comfortable with continuous engagement with C-level and Senior Leadership

Strong analytical and communication skills (both verbal and written) - comfortable with

PowerPoint and Excel

Strong team-play, comfortable with cross-team collaboration

Where you'll be

Even though we are working remotely, we are strong believers in collaboration and the power of building social connections with our teams. For that reason, our offices are still open and provide plenty of collaboration-friendly spaces at times when teams need it or if you need a quiet space to work outside of home.

You'll be working in the location you're hired from. Due to legal and compensation considerations, you will need to be based out of the country you're hired from as your primary work location.

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