Strategy Manager

Job description / Role

About the team

Join our fast-paced groceries team at Careem, where we are reshaping how people shop for their daily needs across the region. Our team is a key driver of innovation and growth, focused on creating seamless, efficient, and delightful grocery shopping experiences for our customers.

What you'll do

• Develop and implement strategic initiatives to scale groceries operations in Riyadh and beyond.
• Take unstructured business challenges and, through investigative analysis, issue tree development, and problem structuring, design a clear, data-driven path to solutions.
• Work with cross-functional teams (Operations, Product, Finance, Marketing) to align strategic objectives and ensure seamless execution.
• Monitor competitive landscape and market trends to anticipate shifts and inform business decisions.
• Incubate new initiatives — from ideation to planning, stakeholder management, and execution — to test, experiment, and innovate new ventures.
• Lead the annual planning cycle, including budgeting, forecasting, and performance tracking.
• Translate complex data and insights into compelling narratives tailored for different audiences to provide context, direction, and focus across the organization.
• Present business insights, performance updates, and recommendations to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.

What you'll need

• 5–7 years of experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, or strategic roles in tech, FMCG, or retail sectors.
• Strong data analytics capability with expertise in structuring problems, deriving insights, and synthesizing recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate with AI — leveraging automation, analytics, or process optimization to enhance efficiency and decision-making.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of SQL or BI tools is a strong plus.
• Experience working cross-functionally in high-growth, fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence at multiple levels.
• Strategic mindset and bias for action, capable of moving from insights to execution.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management capabilities.
• A high level of ambition, curiosity, and willingness to stretch beyond comfort zones to tackle new challenges.

What we’ll provide you

• We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full-time Careem colleague, you will be able to:
• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office and 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.

About the Company

We are a brand that aims to simplify people's lives by revolutionizing the transportation industry. A brand that strives to inspire everyone it interacts with, and supports every single person who dares to believe. #BeCareem

Careem is the MENA region's leading ride-hailing service and newest Tech Unicorn. With 30% monthly growth, we now operate in 50+ cities across 11 countries and host over 6 million users. With our recent Series D funding success, we are positioned on the cusp of significant scale and well on target to deliver our goal of creating one million jobs in the region by 2018.