Strategy & Planning Lead

About this role

<p><strong>Who We Are</strong></p> <p>At Picnic, we’re reinventing the way employees experience lunch at work. By partnering with top local restaurants and batching hundreds of orders, we make it easy for companies to offer high-quality, individually packed meals, without fees or tips. Our mission is to create a seamless, affordable, and joyful lunch experience that benefits both employees and employers.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>As Strategy & Planning Manager, you’ll turn a fast-moving business into a well-organized, goal-driven machine. You’ll own the planning cadence, performance infrastructure, and analytical firepower that keeps every team rowing in the same direction.</p> <p><strong>This is not a staff role. You’ll own outcomes, not just analyses — and you’ll see the direct impact of your work on how Picnic grows.</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What You’ll Own</strong></p> <p><strong>Planning & Goal-Setting</strong></p> <ul> <li>      Drive quarterly and annual planning processes across all Picnic teams — owning the calendar, the templates, and the quality of outputs.</li> <li>      Partner with the Head of Picnic to define company-level and functional OKRs grounded in business priorities and market realities.</li> <li>      Build and maintain the performance frameworks (KPIs, leading indicators, scorecards) that tell us whether we’re winning.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Performance Tracking & Insights</strong></p> <ul> <li>      Own the weekly and monthly business review cadence: synthesize data from across the org into a clear picture of where we stand.</li> <li>      Flag risks early, surface opportunities proactively, and come with a point of view — not just a dashboard.</li> <li>      Work closely with the Data team to translate raw analytics into decisions. SQL and Python fluency will help you move fast without waiting on others.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Budgeting & Resource Allocation</strong></p> <ul> <li>      Lead budgeting and forecasting cycles in partnership with our Strategic Finance lead.</li> <li>      Analyze historical trends to inform headcount, spend, and operational decisions.</li> <li>      Track budget performance and identify where we’re over- or under-resourced relative to priorities.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Cross-Functional Alignment</strong></p> <ul> <li>      Keep teams accountable to their commitments — in a way that’s collaborative, not policing.</li> <li>      Run cross-functional planning sessions and project coordination on high-priority initiatives.</li> <li>      Ensure that what leadership decides actually gets executed: translate direction into clear workstreams, owners, and timelines.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Special Projects & Executive Support</strong></p> <ul> <li>      Lead strategic analyses and special projects on behalf of the Head of Picnic — market sizing, operational deep-dives, growth opportunity assessments.</li> <li>      Prepare exec-level presentations and business reviews that are sharp, well-structured, and decision-ready.</li> <li>      Be the connective tissue between strategy and execution: wherever something matters and doesn’t have a clear owner, that’s often you.</li> </ul> <h2> </h2> <p><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></p> <ul> <li>      Bachelor’s from a top university</li> <li>      3–6 years of experience in strategy, business operations, consulting, investment banking, private equity or a similar high-output analytical role — ideally in a high-growth startup or tech-adjacent environment.</li> <li>      Exceptional at translating complexity into clarity: you can take a messy business problem, structure it, analyze it, and tell a coherent story about what to do.</li> <li>      Strong command of data — you’re comfortable building models, pulling your own data, and knowing when a number doesn’t pass the sniff test.</li> <li>      SQL proficiency is required</li> <li>      Track record of owning cross-functional processes — not just contributing to them.</li> <li>      Low-ego, high-agency: you’re comfortable being behind the scenes and energized by enabling others to execute well.</li> <li>      Excellent written and verbal communication — you write clearly, present confidently, and calibrate to your audience.</li> <li>      Project management chops: you can hold multiple workstreams without letting anything fall.</li> </ul> <p><strong></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Why join us</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Drive…