Strategy & Planning Associate, Uber Direct APAC

Strategy & Planning Associate, Uber Direct APAC Department: Operations Team: Strategy & Planning Location: Sydney, Australia Type: Full-Time **About the Role** Uber Direct is one of Uber’s fastest-growing businesses, enabling merchants to power last-mile delivery from their own channels across grocery, retail, e-commerce, and more. Uber Direct empowers merchants with best-in-class delivery, and is rapidly transforming the ways in which Uber connects the world. We’re hiring a Strategy & Planning Associate for Uber Direct in APAC, focused on our core markets in the region: Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Taiwan. This role will form part of the Global Direct team, reporting to the APAC Regional S&P lead, whilst serving as a thought partner to APAC Direct leadership, Ops and Commercial teams. This role owns how regional performance is measured, understood, and communicated - turning complex data into clear narratives that drive decisions across the business. The successful candidate must feel confident working with data and conducting analysis to build a clear picture of risks, opportunities and ongoing business performance. This is a high-ownership, highly cross-functional role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and operates comfortably at the intersection of data, strategy, and executive storytelling. **Impact in Role:** 1. **Drive our business intelligence function**. You will build and maintain our sources of truth for performance tracking, with a particular focus on ANZ. You will use SQL and analytical proficiency to visualise data, dive deep into problems, identify trends and present your findings as succinct, actionable insights 2. **Support leadership to answer strategic questions.** You will work closely with the APAC S&P Lead and Country GMs to solve the critical questions for the APAC region (e.g. which categories should we lean into harder, and how should we position ourselves in each APAC market?). You will be an unbiased thought partner, to help GMs craft the strategy, flag risks and opportunities early, and foster alignment with Global priorities 3. **Drive robust governance.** You wi