Senior Associate Strategic Planning

Senior Associate Strategic Planning LocationLondon, United KingdomEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeRemoteDepartmentOperationsAs a global leader in micromobility, Lime is on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. A Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Company, Lime has powered more than one billion rides in close to 30 countries across five continents, spurring a new generation of clean alternatives to car ownership. Learn more at li.me.We are looking for a Senior Associate to join the Strategic Planning team. You will be working with colleagues -- often remote market owners, cross-functional teams (local operations, finance, and others), and executive management to make difficult decisions, prioritize, and solve problems. With your proven skills as a multitasker, you will use your analytical skills with confidence to make sure you know and understand our business needs and ensure success for our global business.This is a remote position with a requirement for candidates to reside in London to maintain effective collaboration across teams.What You’ll Do:Own the regional fleet allocation engine: Build, maintain, and improve the models, logic, and decision frameworks used to determine where fleet should be allocated, rebalanced, held, or redeployed across markets.Build decision infrastructure: Develop dashboards, trackers, datasets, and recurring reports that give regional and local teams clear visibility into fleet availability, market needs, allocation gaps, and upcoming decisions.Model scenarios and trade-offs: Quantify allocation options across demand, utilization, revenue, ROI, growth potential, budget constraints, operational readiness, timing, and local market constraints.Turn data into recommendations: Translate complex operational, financial, and market inputs into clear recommendations that help leadership and local teams make better fleet allocation decisions.Support planning and forecasting: Provide the analytical foundation for annual planning, Capex planning, budget forecasting, market launches, scale-ups, and in-year fleet reviews.Standardize allocation processes: Create repeatable frameworks, input templates, decision rules, and model documentation to make allocation decisions more consistent, transparent, and scalable.Partner cross-functionally: Work with Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics, and local markets to collect inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure allocation models reflect operational reality.Track allocation performance: Monitor post-allocation outcomes, compare actual performance against expected impact, identify gaps in the logic, and continuously improve the allocation framework over time.Improve data quality and automation: Identify weaknesses in current tools, data flows, and reporting processes, and build cleaner, faster, and more automated ways to support fleet allocation decisions.About You:2–4 years of experience in strategy and operations, business intelligence, consulting, project management, or another analytical role; experience in a high-growth or early-stage environment is a plus.Analytics & tooling: Strong Excel / Google Sheets and data management skills are required; SQL and dashboard-building experience are required.Data-driven judgment: Able to turn messy data, operational context, and financial inputs into clear recommendations, priorities, and trade-off decisions.Project execution: Proven ability to support cross-functional projects from planning through execution, with strong organization, prioritization, and follow-through.Stakeholder communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate analysis into crisp recommendations, action plans, and leadership updates.Operational judgment: Understands whether a plan is not only analytically sound, but also practical and executable for local teams.Independent working style: Self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, can manage...