Business Operations Analyst (Internship)

Summary: 

We seek a skilled and driven Business Operations Intern to join Vay's business development team. As part of this team, you will be critical in supporting and optimising our partnership discussions from initial conversations to contracting. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams across business, engineering, and comms to launch partnerships and will support the team in identifying new partnership opportunities based on market trends and customer feedback. This role will report to the Head of Business Development.

Responsibilities:

• Project Support: Collaborate with project teams to provide analytical support and insights for business initiatives, including new product launches, market expansions, and process improvement projects. Contribute to developing business cases, feasibility studies, and project plans.
• Business Development: Manage, refine and launch tools to improve current BD processes such as partnership CRM; evaluate partnership opportunities across several industries with a strong focus on automotive, performing a broad range of quantitative and qualitative analyses and working closely with the Head of BD to understand partnership goals, and support their deals with modelling, insights and analytics needed, ensuring the partnership serves the company and BD strategy
• Partnership building: Support the internal partnership strategy with market research and insights and effectively communicate Vay’s vision and objectives outside the organisation to support partnership negotiations and contracting processes. Learn to build strong relationships with Vay’s strategic partners to ensure the business’s success.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Comms/Marketing, Finance, and Engineering, to launch partnerships successfully.
• Market analysis: Ability to gain a quick and data-based understanding of the automotive or technology industry, including market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory environment as a necessary context for the business strategy, partnerships and new market opportunities to inform Vay’s strategy and decision making.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Data Analysis or a related field. Master's degree is a plus.
• At least two years of proven experience in an analytical role, as a business operations analyst, or in a similar role, ideally in consulting, investment banking, automotive, or the technology industry.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to collect, organise, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information. Ability to use data to tell a compelling story and drive practical insights
• Strong ownership, stakeholder management and prioritisation across multiple tasks and workstreams.
• Ability to prioritise and work in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proficiency in data analysis and visualisation tools, such as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, and visualisation tools, such as Tableau.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically while paying attention to details. Ability to tackle problems in a structured and staged approach, ensuring the delivery of results and projects.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and present insights to stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of the automotive and technology industry, including market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory environment, is advantageous.

Our values:

• We pioneer change: At Vay, we’re doing work that has never been done before. This comes with challenges, frustrations and failures along the way. We embrace these challenges through perseverance and innovation, delivering creative solutions to overcome them.
• We fuel collaboration: At Vay, we work as a team and strive for a common goal. We celebrate diversity and encourage different opinions. Our teams and partners communicate and collaborate openly. Together we build, improve, and grow.
• We drive action: At Vay, everyone takes pride and commitment in their role for every task and every challenge. We are biassed towards action and get behind the steering wheel, even when there is none. We are empowered to take initiative and drive it to completion.
• We build trust: At Vay, we consistently do the right thing, and follow through on our commitments to stakeholders, users and society. We understand their expectations and always respond in a way that feels human and respectful. We always put safety first and safety second.
• We create magic: At Vay, we don’t just make things that work, we build products people love. We create unexpected and delightful moments for our riders. We design end-to-end experiences that leave a lasting expression.