Senior Manager - Corporate Strategy - CEO's Office

Job description / Role

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 50 million customers, and built a platform for the region's best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

About the Team

The Careem Strategy and Chief-of-Staff team sits at the center of Careem's strategy and plans for becoming the leading Everything App of the region. It sets the direction for the company across businesses and markets, and works closely with C-Suite and leadership to drive focus and decision-making on the most important priorities for the company.

The company's Strategy and Chief-of-Staff team is looking for a self-driven, high-energy, and detail-oriented problem solver who will report into them and work closely with company leadership on these objectives.

The Strategy and CEO office team at Careem has been set up to achieve the following goals

- Define and refresh our corporate strategy

- Identify how different verticals and our strategic partners, Uber and e&, can come together to strengthen our Everything App value prop and offering, and realize synergies
- Define our regional strategy and sequencing across markets
- Define and regularly update company goals and OKRs to help ensure execution and focus

- Drive special projects critical to the company's success across businesses, functions and markets
- Manage our leadership circles to drive focus, decision-making and action against Careem's most important priorities

About the role

The Strategy Senior Manager will have the following responsibilities

- Strategy development:

- Apply critical thinking, analytics, market/competitor deep dives, and relevant frameworks to solve hard strategic problems
- Run the corporate strategy and goal-setting process and calendar
- Develop, track and regularly update company and department goals and OKRs based on the corporate strategy

- Special projects:

- Quickly understand unfamiliar areas and problem-statements across business and functions
- Lead work streams and projects independently in cross-functional settings
- Apply relevant analyses and frameworks to make recommendations

- Managing leadership circles:

- Set the agenda for leadership-circle meetings based on company priorities
- Continuously iterate on content, format and processes to ensure leadership is enabled to make decisions and drive implementation
- Support in preparing for these forums (preparing content, managing stakeholders, etc.)

What you'll need

- Self-driven, high energy and acts like an owner; recommends the next action needed without waiting for direction; operates with limited need for oversight
- Start-up mindset with a strong bias for action
- Top-tier educational background and 3-5 years of professional experience in strategy or program management roles within a leading management consulting firm or high-growth tech start-up
- Excellent problem solving skills including structuring problems, performing detailed analysis, and developing recommendations
- Project management skills with high degree of detail-orientation, organization, and ability to work cross-functionally
- Unphased by tight timelines and multitasking
- Passionately curious about the business and the market

What we'll provide you

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:

- Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
- Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
- Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
- Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
- Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.

About the Company

We are a brand that aims to simplify people's lives by revolutionizing the transportation industry. A brand that strives to inspire everyone it interacts with, and supports every single person who dares to believe. #BeCareem

Careem is the MENA region's leading ride-hailing service and newest Tech Unicorn. With 30% monthly growth, we now operate in 50+ cities across 11 countries and host over 6 million users. With our recent Series D funding success, we are positioned on the cusp of significant scale and well on target to deliver our goal of creating one million jobs in the region by 2018.