Central Ops Strategy Manager

Company Overview

DiDi Global Inc. is the world’s leading mobility technology platform. It offers a wide range of app-based services across markets including Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa, including ride hailing, taxi hailing, chauffeur, hitch and other forms of shared mobility as well as auto solutions, food delivery, intra-city freight, and financial services.

DiDi provides car owners, drivers, and delivery partners with flexible work and income opportunities. It is committed to collaborating with policymakers, the taxi industry, the automobile industry and the communities to solve the world’s transportation, environmental and employment challenges through the use of AI technology and localized smart transportation innovations. DiDi strives to create better life experiences and greater social value, by building a safe, inclusive and sustainable transportation and local services ecosystem for cities of the future.

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Team Overview

Central Operations Team unlocks and allocates financial resources across SSL Mobility — by market, by function, and over time. Business Planning Team is the pillar that decides how the operational budget is distributed and what targets come with it.

As Business Planning Strategy Manager, you will own resource allocation across the portfolio and the methodology behind it. This is a senior individual-contributor role: you'll be an independent owner of decisions that shape where the business invests, anchoring one core market end-to-end while holding the portfolio view that keeps allocation consistent across all of them.

Role Responsibilities

• Own budget allocation across markets and segments: build the case for where investment goes, defend it with a model, and stand behind it through the cycle.
• Build the methodology, not just the allocation: design the frameworks and decision rules that determine how budget is split, turning recurring judgment calls into a repeatable mechanism others can run without you.
• Set and cascade operational targets: translate financial commitments into market-level targets that are ambitious, consistent, and genuinely owned by the teams carrying them.
• Run the quantitative diagnosis behind investment decisions: size the opportunity, quantify the trade-off, make a clear recommendation.
• Operate as an independent OKR owner: drive your workstreams end-to-end and facilitate execution across functions without formal authority.
• Partner across Operations, Growth, and Finance: your outputs are their inputs.
• Raise the bar around you: share cases and guide more junior analysts. You will lead projects, not people.

Role Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's in engineering, economics, mathematics, data science, business, or a related quantitative field.
• Experience: ~5+ years in strategy, business planning, BizOps, or FP&A at a tech or marketplace company, and/or top-tier consulting, investment banking, or private equity. You have personally owned a planning or resource-allocation process end-to-end.
• Analytical depth: Strong quantitative background with real modelling ability. Advanced Excel and SQL are the floor; Python or BI tooling is a plus. You know the difference between a number that is correct and one that is decision-grade.
• Problem solving: You can take an ambiguous, high-stakes question, impose structure on it, and produce an approach others can follow and challenge.
• Influence: You can carry a recommendation to senior leadership and to local market teams in the same week, and be persuasive with both.
• Work style: High ownership and proactivity. You deliver on time at quality without being managed, and explain complex things clearly to people.
• Languages: Professional proficiency in English and Spanish.

EEO Statement

• We create customer value – We strive to always create valuable experiences for our users in everything we do. Our focus is to always innovate new experiences that are safe, pleasant, and efficient.
• We are data-driven – We are strong believers in making informed decisions, that’s why we are data-driven. We can better navigate the business landscape strategically by analyzing valuable metrics.
• We believe in Win-win Collaboration – Success is a team sport. When we work to help our partners and colleagues win, we win, too. While keeping everyone's best interest at heart, we communicate with candor and execute with excellence in all we do.
• We believe in integrity – Integrity is at the very core of our business. We are people who always want to do the right thing. Our intentions are sincere, we speak our minds and listen to each other.
• We always strive to do better. That means venturing beyond our comfort zones, learning from our mistakes, and helping each other grow.
• We believe in Diversity and Inclusion – Diversity is one of our biggest strengths. Our differences are what makes us distinct. We respect each other and believe in equal opportunities for all.

We are committed to building inclusive and diverse teams.

At DiDi, we believe that our differences are our biggest source of strength. That‘s why we are committed to promoting equal opportunities to all candidates and employees as an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Employment and advancement decisions at DiDi are always made based on the needs of the position and the qualifications of the candidate. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on their gender, age, sexual orientation, nationality, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, disability, race, religion and beliefs, or any other status protected by applicable laws wherever we operate.

We are committed to building inclusive and diverse teams, and a workplace that is free from discrimination and harassment, because that’s how we create better products and services, make better decisions and better serve the communities we’re a part of.

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