Now Brewing – Senior Specialist, Insights, Planning & Strategy!

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Job Summary

This role contributes to the success of Starbucks Asia Pacific by partnering with leaders across the region to accelerate growth through data-driven insights, strategic planning, and enterprise-wide initiatives. This position supports the team’s priorities in regional planning, revenue management, and strategic projects, ensuring alignment with business goals. The position contributes to regional growth by delivering insights, enabling strategic decision-making, and scaling impact across markets. The successful candidate will bring an AI-native mindset, applying structured problem-solving, analytics, and AI-enabled tools as a core part of how they work — driving efficiency, accelerating insight generation, and improving operational effectiveness across the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), 3-year strategic planning process, and quarterly business reviews, providing timely updates and maintaining planning routines and project tracking across the regional organization.
• Assist in executing key cross-functional strategic initiatives in partnership with cross functional team in the region and markets.
• Support the development and rollout of pricing tools, regional standards, and playbooks to strengthen licensee capabilities.
• Deliver competitor, consumer, and market intelligence to inform leadership decision-making and identify future growth opportunities.
• Help institutionalize insight-sharing by maintaining platforms and reporting systems across the regional organization.
• Apply AI-enabled tools and automation approaches to reduce manual reporting, enhance knowledge sharing, and improve analytical efficiency.
• Partner with Data and internal teams to accelerate analytics capabilities and support cross-functional effectiveness across regional hubs, global functions, and markets.

Required Experiences, Skills & Competencies

• Approximately 2–3 years of experience in strategy, planning, or business analytics; open to recent graduates with strong aptitude and drive.
• Proficient in quantitative analysis; familiarity with pricing and financial modelling is a plus.
• AI-native mindset with demonstrated hands-on experience applying AI-enabled tools, agent building and application, automation, and digital workflows to drive efficiency and insight (a must); familiarity with data visualization (Tableau/Power BI) and SQL is a plus.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to work effectively in a multicultural, cross-functional environment.
• Curious, proactive, and eager to learn in a fast-paced, complex environment with multiple competing priorities.
• Enjoy working with people from diverse culture background, appreciate and acknowledges differences in way of working.
• Native level written and spoken English; fluency in additional Asian language(s) is a plus.

Our Promise

• Our partner promise: Bridge to a better future
• Our customer promise: Serve the world's finest coffee with a moment of connection
• Our farmer promise: Ensure the future of coffee for all
• Our community promise: Contribute positively
• Our environmental promise: Give more than we take
• Our shareholder promise: Generate long-term return

Let us give you the opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself. It is time for you #tobeapartner. Apply today!

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