Senior Strategy Manager (They/She/He)

Full Time
Barcelona, Spain
2 months ago

 

Not your usual app. We are the fastest-growing multi-category app connecting millions of users with businesses, and couriers, offering on-demand services from more than 170,000 local restaurants, grocers and supermarkets, and high street retail stores. 

 

We operate in more than 1500 cities across 25 countries. Every year, +200k merchants generate over 4B€ in sales through our platform and over 20M customers get their goods delivered in minutes.

We have a vision: To give everyone easy access to anything in their cities.

And this is where your ride starts…

 

YOUR MISSION

Play a key role in:  Developing Glovo’s company strategy and OKRs, helping leaders to solve tough and exciting challenges and equipping leadership with the insight needed to take difficult and high impact decisions

 

THE JOURNEY

  • Work directly on defining and developing Glovo’s long-term company strategy
  • Drive the development and management of our company OKRs and tech planning
  • Lead key strategic projects, where you will work alongside senior stakeholders across the business to crack a number of diverse and highly demanding problems. Examples of past projects include launching a new ready meals business, running due diligence on M&A opportunities, owning the implementation of Gen AI at Glovo, redefining the way we rank and display content in our app, redesigning the way we onboard and manage partners, filling in high impact interim roles (e.g. GM, CFO) and many more.
  • Support the CEO on high-priority initiatives within his agenda
  • Oversee our market intelligence and predict industry activity and implications for Glovo. Continue to build out our robust competitor intelligence framework and data tracking to ensure added insight with each iteration
  • Report directly into the Director of Strategy (ex-Bain) and manage a team of two strategy analysts                           

 

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE RIDE

  • Keen interest in tech, platform businesses and last-mile logistics
  • Tertiary qualification in business, finance, economics, STEM or similar (MBA is highly valued)
  • 5-7 years of experience in top-tier management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy and/ or a fast-paced strategic leadership role in a high-growth environment
  • Evidence of successfully leading and delivering large, ambiguous and complex projects that supported critical business decisions and outcomes
  • Demonstrated experience structuring large, ambiguous and complex problems by using appropriate frameworks, identifying what matters (strong nose for value) and using a hypothesis-led approach to drive the work
  • A proven ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously
  • A track record of identifying key insights and translating them into practical recommendations that drove action and results
  • Experience managing high-performing individuals across multiple simultaneous projects and a keen interest in investing in the personal development of your direct reports in a strategy-like role
  • A history of working with senior leadership from different practice areas on high-stakes problems
  • Defining and aligning on value, scope & deliverables of the work
  • Owning the work process and adequately managing stakeholder expectations
  • Convincing stakeholders and helping them to take difficult and complex decisions
  • You have strong communication skills and are able to articulate complex concepts in a simple and structured way both written and orally
  • You spot opportunities to make things better and proactively take ownership of them
  • Intermediate SQL skills, plus G-suite proficiency (sheets, slides) will be valued
 

Even if it seems you don't meet our musts don't let it stop you, we are all about finding the best talent out there! Skills can be learned, and embracing diversity is invaluable.

We believe driven talent deserves:

  • 🌟 An enticing equity plan *if applicable 
  • 💪 Top-notch private health insurance to keep you at your peak.
  • 🍔 Monthly Glovo meal benefits so you can test new features in our beta app (and to satisfy your cravings!) 
  • 💳 Discounts on transportation, food, and even kindergarten expenses or office-based nursery.
  • 🏊 Discounted gym memberships to keep you energized.
  • 🏖️ The freedom to work from home two days a week, and the opportunity to work from anywhere for up to three weeks a year. .
  • 👪 Enhanced parental leave (*if applicable) 
  • 🧠 Online therapy and wellbeing benefits 

We’ll deliver a non-vanilla culture built on talent, where we work to amplify the impact on millions of people, paving the way forward together. 

 

At Glovo, we truly value diversity for the positive impact it brings to our teams, products, and culture. We're dedicated to providing equal opportunities for talent from all backgrounds. 

Feel free to note your pronouns in your application (e.g., she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

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