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About the Role
As a Strategy Manager, Growth Initiatives at PPRO, you will own the growth initiatives portfolio end-to-end, translating strategic hypotheses into concrete plans, driving coordination, and testing new opportunities. This is an execution-first role for a senior operator comfortable with ambiguity and autonomy, reporting to the VP of Strategy & Growth.
Responsibilities
- Own the growth initiatives portfolio end-to-end: the process, existing initiatives, and pipeline.
- Translate strategic hypotheses into concrete plans, milestones, and delivery.
- Own success metrics for initiatives and ensure measurable business impact.
- Identify and resolve risks and dependencies.
- Quickly ideate and test new growth opportunities, providing kill-or-continue recommendations.
- Work hands-on with Product, Engineering, Commercial, Finance, Risk, and Legal teams to drive progress.
- Align initiative owners and influence senior stakeholders on goals, priorities, and timelines.
- Maintain momentum across complex, cross-functional initiatives in ambiguous environments.
- Build and iterate on business cases, operating models, and execution plans for growth initiatives.
- Assess trade-offs across growth, complexity, risk, and scalability.
- Support decision-making with structured analysis and clear recommendations.
- Provide clear, structured updates to senior leadership on progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Build concise, executive-ready materials to simplify complex topics and enable fast decisions.
- Help establish repeatable ways of working for evaluating, executing, and scaling new bets.
Requirements
- 6-8+ years of experience in execution-heavy roles within fast-moving environments.
- Proven track record of taking ambiguous initiatives from idea to execution and measurable outcomes.
- A proactive, action-oriented operator who speaks up, challenges senior stakeholders respectfully, and brings a point of view.
- Strong commercial judgment and analytical capability.
- Ability to operate independently with a high degree of ownership, accountability, and judgment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to structure and convey complex ideas clearly.
- A strong bias toward action and delivery over analysis for its own sake.
Skills
- Strategy & Operations
- Business Operations
- Expansion
- New Products
- Commercial judgment
- Analytical capability
- Communication skills
- Structured analysis
- Building business cases
- Operating models
- Execution plans
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Hybrid working with 3 days/week on site expectation
- Work from abroad policy for up to 30 days per year
- GBP 1,000 annual budget for professional growth
- Leadership cafés
- On-the-job training
- Medical insurance (AXA health care plan)
- 5% matching pension plan through Now Pensions
- Enhanced family leave
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Gym membership contribution
- Mental health platform with one-on-one therapy, chat therapy, therapist-led courses, guided meditations
- Pet-friendly office
About the Company
- PPRO simplifies access to local payments, providing a platform that empowers companies like PayPal, Stripe, and Microsoft to connect with billions of consumers worldwide.
- We are on an ambitious, fast-paced mission to 3x our growth by 2028.
- Our team spans over 50 nationalities across 10+ global locations, fostering diverse cultures that drive innovation.
- We offer a people-first, high trust environment with autonomy, broad exposure, meaningful challenges, and continuous learning.
- Our principles include: getting things done, acting with trust and integrity, putting the customer first, making things better, and working as a team.
Equal Opportunity
- Our people span more than 50 nationalities, and that mix is exactly what makes us good at this.
- We welcome applicants of every background, identity, and experience.
- We're far more interested in what you'll bring than a perfect match on paper.
- We make sure our hiring process is accessible to everyone. If you need an adjustment at any stage, just let us know: we're happy to help.
- We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.