Senior Manager, Growth Strategy & Planning

GRABTAXI HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Grab's Regional Growth Strategy & Planning team shapes the user growth agenda across Southeast Asia, translating market opportunities into strategic plans for products, markets, and segments.

You will lead a small team, align senior stakeholders, and influence roadmaps while establishing scalable governance, performance-management practices, and AI-enabled analysis. You will work onsite at Grab's Singapore office, reporting to the Regional Head of Growth Strategy & Planning.

Qualifications

• 8 or more years of relevant experience, including management consulting and growth strategy roles.
• Experience identifying high-impact opportunities and hypothesis-driven thinking.
• Led complex, cross-functional, multi-market programs from strategy to implementation.
• Partnered with Product, Commercial, Marketing, Analytics, and country teams to shape roadmaps.
• Influenced senior leaders with evidence-based recommendations and trusted relationships.
• Managed and developed a team with forecasting, financial modelling, and opportunity evaluation.
• Experience engaging with AI tools and latest technologies to accelerate analysis.

Responsibilities

• Shape regional user growth agenda across markets, products, and user segments.
• Guide investments and resource allocation with clear outcomes and risks.
• Influence roadmaps and align stakeholders to secure commitment.
• Establish governance and performance-review mechanisms for scalable planning.
• Lead innovation and team development using GenAI and new technology.

Skills

Growth strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic problem solving

Roadmap alignment

Stakeholder management

Team leadership & coaching

Forecasting & modelling

AI tools adoption

Tools

GenAI

Job description

Get to Know the Team

The Regional Growth Strategy & Planning team shapes Grab's user growth agenda across Southeast Asia. We help leaders make informed decisions about growth priorities, product direction, and resource allocation across markets, products, and user segments.

We collaborate with Product, Commercial, Marketing, Analytics, and country teams. By combining an understanding of users and the business with pragmatic problem-solving, we turn strategic insights into scalable, measurable outcomes.

Get to Know the Role

You will shape Grab's regional user growth agenda by identifying and prioritising opportunities across markets, products, and user segments. You will develop strategic recommendations and robust business cases that improve growth decisions, resource allocation, and execution.

You will align senior stakeholders, influence product and business roadmaps, and establish scalable planning, governance, and performance-management practices.

You will lead a small team, report to the Regional Head of Growth Strategy & Planning, and work onsite at Grab's Singapore office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Shape the regional user growth agenda:You will identify and prioritise high-impact opportunities across markets, products, and user segments, balancing growth potential, user impact, and business trade-offs.
• Guide investment and resource allocation:You will develop business cases and portfolio recommendations that guide investments in funding, time, and organisational resources, supported by clear outcomes, risks, and success measures.
• Influence roadmaps and align stakeholders:You will partner with Product, Commercial, Marketing, Analytics, and country teams to translate growth priorities into roadmap decisions, navigate competing priorities, and secure commitment.
• Establish governance and improve performance:You will build scalable planning frameworks, governance rhythms, and performance-review mechanisms that clarify ownership, monitor outcomes, surface risks, and enable timely course correction.
• Lead innovation and team development:You will coach and develop your team while using GenAI and other latest technologies to accelerate analysis, test ideas, improve decision quality, and scale effective ways of working.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have8 or more years of relevant experience, including management consulting and an in-house growth strategy, corporate strategy, or business-planning role.
• You have experience identifying and prioritising high-impact opportunities, structuring ambiguous problems using hypothesis-driven thinking, and developing pragmatic recommendations grounded in business context.
• You have led complex, cross-functional, and multi-market programs from strategy through implementation, including establishing governance and delivering measurable outcomes.
• You have partnered with Product, Commercial, Marketing, Analytics, and country teams to shape roadmaps and secure commitment through execution.
• You have experience influencing senior leaders without direct authority by presenting evidence-based recommendations and building trusted working relationships.
• You have managed and developed a team, including setting direction, prioritising work, and coaching team members, supported by strong analytical and commercial capabilities in forecasting, financial modelling, and opportunity evaluation.
• You have experience engaging with AI tools and latest technologies to enhance productivity, improve workflows, support experimentation, and contribute new ideas.

Preferred:

Experience working in a consumer technology platform, digital marketplace, or similarly complex environments