Strategy & Planning Head, Mexico
Job Description
**About the Role**
Build the strategy for the next phase of the ridesharing business in Mexico; improve planning, focus, and alignment on this strategy for Uber’s 4th largest country; innovate on market intelligence and data gathering in the context of growing driven threats from other apps; manage the transition from supply growth and acquisition at any cost to increasing demand and building a strong and sustainable porfolio to reach all users, drive the next wave of growth and continue to improve the margin profile of the country; interact across teams and regions to share Mexico’s best practices, identify new opportunities, and influence other teams.
**What the Candidate Will Do**
- **Vision:** Working closely with the Head of Latam Strategy & Planning and Regional General Managers across Latin America to align overall regional vision.
- **Strategy:** Define Mexico’s country strategy, influence LatAm regional strategy. You’ll be responsible for building Mexico’s business strategy to achieve high levels of growth in a highly competitive environment while continuing to improve margins.
- **Thought Leadership:** Working with all vertical leaders across Mexico to set strategic priorities, align regional and company vision, and share best practices. Be the thought partner and right hand to Mexico’s General Manager.
- **Own the narrative of the country:** You will be responsible for communicating the strategy, challenges, and needs of the country to get buy-in and support from regional and global teams to prioritize Mexico’s needs.
- **Program/Project Management:** Be an inventive, go-getting multitasker, supporting teams across the country and region. You'll be THE go to person for many key initiatives, not just for Operations, but across key teams within the organization such as Finance, Growth, Marketing, and Product.
- **Process Improvement:** Identify operational and structural weaknesses and help improve or innovate new processes to keep our local and regional teams as efficient as possible.
- **Scale:** Build, maintain, and communicate detailed reporting models to assist city-level, regional, and product expansion efforts, and make data-driven decisions.
- **Develop Relationships:** Collaborate with other functional areas (Engineering, Business Development, People Operations, Product, Legal, Finance etc.) to ensure efficient and productive working relationships.
- **Lead by Example:** Be truth-seeking and comfortable with data, set high standards for the team to think boldly and creatively, and then funnel that energy into concrete processes and execution plans. Move fast and be biased toward action.
**\-\-\-\- Basic Qualifications ----**
- At least 6+ years of investment banking / consulting /strategy or related experience; some high-growth operations or startup experience is very much preferred.
- Bilingual proficiency in Spanish and English.
- Outstanding communication and organization skills. Ability to effectively communicate to senior leadership both written (documents, emails, decks) and verbally. Team player to develop strategies and foster a cohesive and creative work environment.
- Financial analysis experience to improve our forecasting models and decision making process.
- Highly analytical with strong problem solving skills to dissect complex problems into simple solutions.
- Clear communicator. You are a clear and concise communicator with the ability to synthesize a lot of information quickly, highlight the key take aways, and disseminate meaningful insights. Be an exceptional storyteller.
- Balance attention to detail with swift execution - we need to do things quickly, and we need to do them well.
- Self-starter - the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the data we require will make you much more effective in this role.
- A "driver" personality - biased toward action, great collaborator and master disambiguator/simplifier - constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery.
- Exceptional Excel / Google suite / data leadership skills. SQL Proficiency highly preferred
- Grittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and address something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away.
\-\-\-\- Preferred Qualifications ----
MBA highly preferred.
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward, together.
Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.
\*Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to [accommodations@uber.com](mailto:accommodations@uber.com).