Manager, Strategy & Partnership Operations

foodpanda Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Corporate Office); Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Corporate Allowance

Lifestyle Allowance

Job summary

foodpanda Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Corporate Office) is seeking a Manager of Strategy & Partnership Operations to join the Strategic Partnerships team. The role focuses on shaping regional partnership strategy, building scalable operating frameworks, and running analytics behind major partnership decisions.

You will collaborate with country teams across 15 Delivery Hero markets, translating complex problems into actionable recommendations and ensuring rapid, data-informed execution.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of experience in strategy, ops, or consulting with consumer/tech exposure.
• Strong analytical and modelling skills; able to build business cases in Excel.
• Excellent structured thinking and crisp communication to land recommendations.
• Experience working across markets or functions is a plus.
• A proactive doer with execution ownership beyond planning.

Responsibilities

• Build and refine the partnership strategy across all markets, identifying priority partner categories and markets.
• Design operating frameworks and playbooks that help country teams execute consistently and at pace.
• Lead the analytics behind partnership decisions, pipeline sizing, incrementality modelling, ROI frameworks, and scenario analysis.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders (growth, product, finance, legal) to unblock execution and resolve bottlenecks.
• Represent Strategic Partnerships in regional leadership forums, bringing structured thinking and data-backed recommendations.

Skills

Strategy

Analytics

Excel modelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Structured problem solving

Communication

Execution ownership

Multi-market experience

Tools

Excel

Job description

Manager, Strategy & Partnership Operations

We are hiring a Manager, Strategy & Partnership Operations to join the Strategic Partnerships team at Delivery Hero APAC. This is a role for someone who thinks structurally about problems, enjoys bringing order to complexity, and wants to operate at the intersection of commercial strategy, cross-market execution and business outcomes.

You will work on partnerships that span our 15 DH markets , from shaping the regional partnership strategy, to building operating frameworks that help market teams execute faster, to running the analytics behind the biggest partnership decisions.

What you will do

• Build and refine the partnership strategy for all markets , which partner categories matter, which markets to prioritise, where to invest, what to deprioritise
• Design operating frameworks and playbooks that help country teams execute consistently and at paceLead the analytics behind partnership decisions , pipeline sizing, incrementality modelling, ROI frameworks, scenario analysis
• Partner with cross-functional leaders (growth, product, finance, legal) to unblock execution and resolve bottlenecks
• Represent Strategic Partnerships in regional leadership forums , bringing structured thinking and data-backed recommendations

What you need to be successful

What we are looking for

• 4-7 years of experience in strategy, strategy & operations, management consulting, chief-of-staff or similar structured problem-solving roles , ideally with some consumer / tech / fintech exposure
• Strong analytical and modelling skills , comfortable building a business case in Excel from first principles
• Ability to think structurally and communicate crisply , you can take a messy problem, break it down, and land a recommendation that leadership can act on
• Experience operating across markets or functions is a plus — this role is inherently cross-functional
• A doer, not just a planner , this role has execution ownership, not just strategy ownership

Who we are

foodpanda is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.

Perks and benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Corporate Allowance
• Lifestyle Allowance