Special Project Associate

**Job Description**:
**Life at Grab**

At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.

**Get to know the Team**

The GrabFood Strategy team is one of the core functions that strategically drive Grab delivery businesses. As a Special Project team, under the Grabfood Strategy team, we are responsible for transforming big datasets into practical recommendations and helping key stakeholders plan and execute their business strategies effectively. We are the thinking partner, the consultant, and the expert for operational improvement for internal teams. Our impacts are significant, ranging from helping merchants grow more sales through our products and campaigns, to innovatively curating the best offers and eating experiences for our customers. If you are looking for a fast-paced and challenging environment, and an opportunity to deep dive into Thailand’s and Southeast Asia’s food delivery industry, this place is for you.

**Get to know the Role**

We are looking for a Special Project Associate with excellent strategic thinking and growth mindset to initiate, own, or lead special projects that are the pillars of GrabFood’s business. Your scope will be a balance of data analytics and project management, where you will work closely with key stakeholders to understand the business directions and operational contexts, and transform the big dataset into actionable recommendations, and integrate those recommendations into stakeholders’ business strategies.

**The Day-to-Day Activities**
- Initiate, own, or lead special projects that are the pillars of GrabFood’s business by optimizing the resources for better performance of key business metrics, and exploiting new opportunities to capture new growth engines
- Deep dive, analyze, and turn live data into meaningful insights, and transform insights into practical recommendations for commercial growth and operational improvements
- Collaborate closely with country and regional teams to develop and plan for experiments and roll out new features and initiatives that improve business performance and efficiency
- Lead the execution and strategy recommendations to key stakeholders, and ensure that all resources utilization is highly efficient and that all projects are completed in a timely manner Supervise the operations and implementation, evaluate the success & cost effectiveness, and come up with recommendation for improvements

**The Must-Haves**
- A Bachelor’s degree or above in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, or in a relevant field with a strong academic track record
- 1 - 2 years of work experience in financial services, management consulting, technology firms, or fast-paced working environment in strategy or business development. Fresh grads with highly relevant experiences will be considered
- Solid analytical and critical thinking skills, with an attention to detail and structure
- Passion to solve problems, with strong quantitative, creative, data analysis and project management skills
- Proficiency in Excel/ is required, experience with SQL/R/Python is a plus
- Excellent PMO, communications, and presentation skills, with good English proficiency
- Flexibility, passion, and energy to excel in a fast-paced team environment, while also being able to work independently

**Our Commitment**

We are committed to building diverse teams and creating an inclusive workplace that enables all Grabbers to perform at their best, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or sexual orientation and other attributes that make each Grabber unique.