Assistant Manager, Business Planning, Regional SMB Ads

Get to Know the Team

GrabAds allows Advertisers, Agencies, and Merchants to engage the Grab Audience via innovative online and offline advertising experiences. Through our unique ecosystem and transacting user base, our clients are able to reach their desired audiences at scale, while driving measurable business outcomes.

We would like You to join our journey to create value for our users, drivers, merchants, and advertising partners, while continuing to make everyday lives better across Southeast Asia.

Get to Know the Role

As part of Regional GrabAds SMB Strategy & Planning team, you will support various regional business development initiatives and co-create strategic business plans to drive self-serve ads growth. Promote and deliver self-serve advertising services to Grab's ecosystem participants. You'll work cross-functionally with leaders from GrabAds, Product, Marketing, Food & CE and relevant stakeholders to identify compelling advertising solutions for broad merchants adoption.

An ideal candidate will embody a strategic business mindset, analytical. Enjoy exploring ideas with internal function stakeholders. Understanding business levers and how to piece critical drivers together to grow business. The candidate will also enjoy challenging the status quo, chasing results, diving deep into troubleshooting and working with their peers to share solutions and raise the bar for the entire team. We hope this sounds like you and you are excited about this opportunity!

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Strategic Persuasion: Co-create and execute strategies and special projects to grow business potential via cross-functional and country enablement.
• Performance Tracking: Oversee performance tracking, analysis, and reporting to ensure the financial health of business operations. Identify opportunities and escalate issues in collaboration with the data analytics team.
• Market Intelligence: Conduct industry and trend analysis to identify opportunities for innovation and differentiation.
• Business Insights: Consolidate and synthesize critical business insights for opportunities, learnings, and provide direction for business decision-making.
• Leadership Alignment: Manage business review cadences and executive updates for leadership alignment.
• AI & Process Innovation: Champion an AI learner/builder mindset by proactively identifying opportunities to leverage AI tools to identify business opportunities, automate workflows, build lightweight solutions, and drive operational efficiency.