Senior Strategy

**Description**:
Upway is hiring a Senior Strategy & Planning Manager.

Upway is the leading platform selling refurbished e-bikes in Europe and the US. Our mission is to make light electric mobility accessible to everyone.

With a very ambitious plan for the years ahead, we are looking forward to reinforcing our Strategy & Planning team to continue piloting our expansion.

The Strategy & Planning team is dealing with a wide range of topics, such as Business Planning, Financial Performance Monitoring, Pricing, and some Operational projects across Europe.

The Senior Strategy & Planning Manager will work closely with our General Managers as well as functional Leads, taking ownership of multiple workstreams, and bringing his/her analytical and problem solving skills to help us build the global leader in light electric mobility.

The role is based in Paris, with some travels needed across Europe (Germany, Belgium, Netherlands).

**What you will do**:

- **Business Planning**: Strategize, forecast, and create robust business plans for Upway, constantly evaluating and recalibrating against results, ensuring adaptability and agility as needed.
- **Financial Performance Monitoring**: Monitor, understand, and interpret financial and operational metrics to shape the strategic direction and actionable plans. Deepen the comprehension of the key drivers of our business.
- **Pricing**: Refine and enhance Upway's pricing model, integrating and optimizing essential variables to fuel growth and profitability.
- **Cross-functional Collaboration**: Foster collaborative relationships across teams, driving Operational projects and initiatives forward (e.g., cost optimization, category management, working capital requirement), guaranteeing alignment with the organization's overarching strategic objectives.

**What you will need**:

- **Experience**: 6-10 years of experience in Finance, Strategy Consulting, Operations or equivalent.
- **Analytical Skills**: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, adept at extracting actionable insights from data.
- **Data**: Proficiency with data analysis tools (GSheets, SQL) is a must.
- **Project & Stakeholders Management**: Ability to plan and execute initiatives of varying durations and scales while effectively managing stakeholders.
- **Innovation and Autonomy**: Proactive, innovative, and autonomous at identifying and implementing process improvements and standard methodologies.
- **Adaptability**: Ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment, demonstrating flexibility and resilience.
- **Language Proficiency**: Fluency in English.

**Benefits**:
Upway operates in Western Europe and the US, with the support of prestigious investors including Sequoia Capital, Global Founders Capital and Exor. It holds an exceptional team of talented people who thrive in fast paced environments and who are dedicated to the mission: Making electric mobility accessible to everyone.
- You will receive equity shares in the form of stock options
- You will operate in an environment where you can take as much responsibility as you are able to handle. This will present great learning and growth opportunities.
- You’ll work in a fast paced environment, where we favour quick decision making and getting things done
- You’ll work on a great product. Electric and sustainable mobility will be ever present in your day-to-day, and you’ll become an expert in these topics.

**About Upway**:
At Upway, we are making electric mobility accessible to everyone. We are looking for high intelligence, high energy and high integrity people to join us on an exciting journey and reshape mobility with us.

Our mission is to make e-bikes the norm, redefining how the world moves. As the global leading platform for certified pre-owned and refurbished e-bikes, we proudly serve customers across eight countries, including France, Germany and the US.

We are an international company and operate from Paris, Antwerp, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and New York. In just three years, we achieved a fast paced growth, ambitious expansion and secured $65M+ from leading investors, including Sequoia, Exor Seed, Korelya Capital & GFC.