Director of Strategy

**About the team**

The Strategy & Planning team is at the centre of thinking through and planning Careem’s vision and strategy for our core Ride Hailing business, with the objective of successfully achieving the company’s ambitious growth targets and building competitive advantage for it. It will be part of the team’s mandate to lay down a clear path for our rides business across our footprint and work with GMs and cross-functional colleagues to deliver on it.

**What you'll do**

The scope of the role also requires an ability to manage complex strategic projects, working closely with Careem’s senior leadership and C-Suite on a daily basis. You will need to maintain a strong understanding of market realities and remain close to our C4 stakeholders (colleagues, customers, captains and communities). Other responsibilities include:

- Drive regional strategy for Careem rides by building a deep understanding of customer needs, understanding the macro realities of markets and factoring in global trends related to mobility
- Create business cases and financial models to launch new business lines supported by data and analytics
- Develop short
- and long-term strategic plans in line with our Super App vision while ensuring different business lines have Careem’s local maxima prioritized
- Work on identifying new potential markets / segments / use-cases and devise the entry strategy
- Define organizational priorities on an annual and quarterly basis, at the group-level
- Develop market focused strategies to support the operational teams on the ground
- Support business teams in planning and analysis of high impact initiatives, e.g. provide fact
- based support to key challenges, help with problem identification and structuring, advise on the realities of strategy implementation and org / operating model change topics around it
- Work with the company’s senior leadership on a daily basis
- Develop needful analytical and conceptual frameworks for strategy formulation
- Conduct market research, competitive analysis and industry benchmarking needed for strategy articulation and assessment

This role will be accountable for the following:

- Delivery of an annual rides strategy along with strategic plans and implementation roadmaps
- Ownership and accountability for delivery on key strategic projects to support annual goals
- Delivery of quarterly priorities
- Delivery of quality, timely support to senior leadership on sensitive, priority, strategic topics
- Updating the Careem’s rides vision and group-level priorities, in alignment with the Uber Group

**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
- 5+ years of experience in professional environments, especially working with the strategy arm of a leading tech company and/or a top tier management consulting firm
- A passion for and demonstrated experience working with technology companies including internet, super app, and marketplace focused companies
- Comfortable with continuous engagement with C-level and Senior Leadership
- Strong analytical and communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Strong team-play, comfortable with cross-team collaboration
- Prior experience in a senior position in a super app company or relevant adjacencies is a plus
- Humble and hungry to learn something new