About the Role
As a Strategy & Planning Associate, you will support the ongoing strategic business planning process, governance, as well as providing data-based recommendations for decision making considering key strategic initiatives that will transform our Central Europe [ CE ] business. The Strategy & Planning Associate plays an integral role in driving business performance, strategic direction and insights/intelligence.
- - - - What the Candidate Will Do ----
- Support the evolution of the Central Europe strategy, monitoring performance and progress against current plan, and provide insight and intelligence to inform changes and developments through the planning processes.
- Build, manage and operate business dashboards to track KPIs and ensure we have full visibility and context of performance.
- Support key governance cadences (all hands, OKR performance and calibration, MBR and other periodic review sessions etc).
- Serve as a strategic consultant to the business through trusted partner relationships with the leadership team, and as a thought partner on key strategic initiatives with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Actively support all business intelligence, strategic planning and analytical activity for senior management of the country.
- Identify internal operational opportunities and help improve or innovate people programs to keep them as effective and efficient as possible (i.e., org design, talent strategies, recruiting efficiencies, hc management)
- - - - Basic Qualifications ----
- 3+ years of work experience - consulting, investment banking, strategy & planning, operations, or other specialty roles with proven record in quantitative fields
- Excellent business acumen - ability to assess business performance, identify trends, opportunities and risks and provide thought partnership and insight to the CE Leadership team.
- Data-driven decision making ability - sound business judgment through deep analytical thinking, ability to take ambiguous problems and questions and build data-driven insights and solutions.
- SQL experience is vital - you have a proven track record on deep diving into a variety of data sets and building scripts from scratch.
- Communication - you produce high impact material. Clear, concise and error-free
- Navigating ambiguity - at ease with uncertainty and adapting swiftly to changing priorities.
Preferred qualifications
- Quantitative Bachelor's degree (engineering, mathematics, finance, economics, physics, etc.)
- First experience in leveraging python to build small applications (e.g. automation), explore large data sets or modeling (Machine Learning)
* Accommodations may be available based on religious and/or medical conditions, or as required by applicable law. To request an accommodation, please reach out to .