Strategy & Planning Lead, Uber Eats - Portugal

About the Role

We are hiring an exceptional Strategy & Planning Lead to spearhead our efforts in the Portuguese market. As the lead for Portugal, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the country’s strategy and growth trajectory, leading high-impact initiatives, and acting as a key advisor to the Delivery leadership team.

This challenge requires a sophisticated blend of structured problem-solving, data-backed decision making and execution, cross-functional leadership and project management.

What the Candidate Will Do

1. Strategic Advisory: Serve as a strategic advisor to the Portugal Delivery leadership team on top-of-mind strategic initiatives, taking ownership of end-to-end problem statements, influencing critical stakeholders, and driving decisions at the highest levels of the organization.
2. Planning & Governance: Own & drive governance and planning initiatives for the Portugal Business, ensuring alignment with regional / global approaches and objectives & ensuring strong representation of the business in critical forums.
3. Strategic Intelligence: Own the localized intelligence roadmap for Portugal, leading the creation of executive-level dashboards and reporting. You will bridge the gap between market research and execution, driving actionable insights that shape our competitive positioning and long-term growth.
4. Data-Driven Problem-Solving: Apply structured problem-solving approaches & frameworks, enriched by robust data analysis to tackle new and ambiguous problem statements, while bringing in best practice from experts in other regions & functions
5. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with local and regional teams (Operations, Finance, Legal, Policy, etc.) to design, launch, and execute cross-functional programs aimed at achieving critical business outcomes.
6. Zero to One Initiatives: Take top-of-mind strategic initiatives from zero to one, building them from the ground up and guiding them through to successful implementation.
7. Stakeholder Influence and Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders, effectively influencing and managing their expectations to ensure alignment and support for strategic initiatives.

What the Candidate Will Need

• 5+ years of experience in strategy, operations, or consultancy
• Native Portuguese speaker and full proficiency in English
• Full proficiency in Google Slides and Sheets (e.g. building dashboards)
• High degree of business and financial acumen and comfort using analytics to solve problems
• A self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and excels at tackling unprecedented challenges in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to translate complex issues into clear, concise, and practical solutions
• Outstanding communication and storytelling abilities to articulate complex ideas and concepts in a compelling and engaging manner
• Strong attention to detail and a structured approach to project management, driving the successful completion of complex programs

Bonus Points

• Preferred background and expertise includes: consulting in MBB, strategy in big tech / scale-ups
• SQL knowledge and Vibe coding (Lovable, Claude) is advantageous
• Genuine interest and fascination with the online food delivery industry and desire to understand each aspect of the marketplace and Uber’s business strategy

Uber's mission is to reimagine the way the world moves for the better. Here, bold ideas create real-world impact, challenges drive growth, and speed fuelds progress. What moves us, moves the world - let’s move it forward, together.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber's cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.

*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 accommodations@uber.com.