Grab
Technology
Manager,HRStrategicWorkforcePlanning
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“Manager, HR Strategic Workforce Planning at Grab. Skills: Workforce Planning, Data Analysis, Strategic Advisory. Lead headcount planning and budgeting cycles. Re-engineer workflows and toolsets”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure sustainable, data-driven, and optimized growth; Achieve strategic goals through productivity advantages; Eliminate recurring process gaps; Drive scalability; Identify gaps and opportunities for workforce augmentation; Optimizing spans and layers; Signal strategic implications
Industry & Context.
Strategic problem-solving partner; Identify patterns; Translate high-level guidance into practical, operational direction
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of experience, Navigate unfamiliar domains, Identify patterns, Translate high-level guidance into practical, operational direction, Understanding of value levers, Evaluate how workforce decisions impact both growth and operational stability, Convene diverse stakeholders to unified plans, Distil complex data into a logical narrative for senior leadership, Apply new methods to improve planning systems
Nice to Have
AI
What You'll Do.
Lead headcount planning and budgeting cycles
Re-engineer workflows and toolsets
Develop productivity metrics
Partner with leadership to architect organizational design
Translate high-level guidance into clear plans
Communicate trade-offs
Facilitate teams to converge into a final resolution
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with leadership; Facilitate different teams to converge into a final resolution
Communication Scope
Transform complex data into clear executive summaries; Distil complex data into a logical narrative
Full Job Description
About Grab and Our Workplace Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility. Get to Know the Team The Workforce Planning team is a strategic pillar within People Operations. We serve as the primary drivers of Grab's human capital efficiency. Our mission is to ensure that Grab's growth is sustainable, data-driven, and optimised. Operating at the intersection of Finance, Operations, and People, we ensure that resource deployment supports both aggressive growth and operational excellence. Get to Know the Role The role of Manager, Workforce Planning enables Grab to achieve its strategic goals through productivity advantages. This end-to-end role bridges leadership strategy with regional execution, spanning from building meticulous data models and implementing planning cycles to serving as a strategic problem-solving partner to the business. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Head of Workforce Planning The Critical Tasks You Will Perform The work requires a balance of analytical rigour and the ability to connect complex dots. * Lead regional governance and process improvement: You will lead the end-to-end headcount planning and budgeting cycles, ensuring alignment with financial constraints. You will actively re-engineer workflows and toolsets to eliminate recurring process gaps and drive scalability. * Build productivity insights and future-ready models: You will develop productivity metrics (e.g. Cost-to-Serve, Efficiency Ratios) to identify gaps and opportunities for workforce augmentation. * Translate strategy into actionable advisory: You will partner with lead
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