Senior Manager, Data

About Setel:

The Future of Mobility

Introduced in July 2018, Setel is a mobile platform that aims to delight customers by innovating for better, inclusive mobility. Setel serves customers across Malaysia by powering one app as the constant companion to ease motorists' journey across fueling, parking, EV charging, motor insurance, road tax, auto assistance, general purchases, and more across an ecosystem of PETRONAS petrol stations, retail partners, and online merchants.

Role Purpose:

As the Senior Manager, Data Analytics & Strategy, you will lead Setel's data and strategy teams to turn insights into practical business actions. You will elevate data capability beyond reporting, shaping strategic choices that influence product, commercial, and operational decisions. You will oversee market research, competitor analysis, opportunity assessment, and business model evaluation, building a strong fact base to guide senior leadership in high-impact decisions.

This is a senior leadership role for someone who is commercially strong, able to simplify complexity, confident in engaging at the executive level, and capable of managing and developing a high-performing data team. You will connect information across the organisation and turn it into recommendations that drive growth and long-term value

In this role you will:

• Develop Setel's data-driven strategic blueprint by synthesizing market trends, competitor intelligence, and emerging opportunities to support growth.
• Lead evaluation of new business opportunities, including strategic partnerships and ventures, to expand Setel's market footprint.
• Oversee MVP and project prioritization, defining portfolio priorities and endorsing business cases to maintain a strong opportunity pipeline.
• Provide actionable insights to senior leadership by analyzing complex datasets and guiding strategic and operational decisions
• Build predictive models and analytics frameworks to enhance decision-making, optimize operations, and mitigate risks
• Drive Setel's digital and analytics strategy, leveraging emerging technologies, benchmarking, and industry best practices to strengthen competitive positioning
• Engage with regulators, partners, and industry stakeholders to influence policy and foster collaborative innovation
• Manage, mentor, and develop the day-to-day operations of the data team, ensuring alignment with business priorities, fostering skill growth, and promoting a high-performance culture

You're a great fit if you have:

• Bachelor or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Business Analytics, Data Science, Economics,Business or related disciplines).
• Professional certifications in analytics or technology (for example: Tableau, PowerBI, SQL, AWS or Azure data certifications) are an added advantage.
• Training or exposure in strategy, finance or business planning (for example: financial modelling, corporate strategy courses) is preferred.
• Experience in data analytics, business strategy, or management consulting, preferably in fintech or financial services.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with hands-on experience in market research, opportunity sizing, business case development, scenario planning, and predictive modeling.
• Proficiency in data visualization (Power BI, Tableau), data governance, financial modeling, and analytics storytelling.

Technical/Functional Skills

• Strategic thinking, analytical mindset, decision-making, relationship building, negotiation & influence, leadership and mentorship.
• Broad to Complex: Navigate non-routine, ambiguous challenges across growth, partnerships, regulatory compliance, and resource allocation, using data-driven insights to develop actionable solutions.

Leadership/ Behavioral Skills

• Confidentiality: Ability to handle sensitive information with confidentiality.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capability to guide cross functional teams.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to connect data, market insights and business direction.
• Strong collaboration and relationship building skills across senior stakeholders.
• Exceptional leadership and mentorship abilities.

What Makes Working With Us Awesome

• Our people and culture: You will get to work with awesome and friendly colleagues to whom you can expect to collaborate well to deliver your work. Empowerment is given and you will get a lot of opportunities for peer-learning.
• Availability of tools and applications: You will be provided with different tools to facilitate your work. Automate your work whenever possible so that you can focus on delivering impact for your role.
• Development focused: Your learning and growth matters most for us. We are people centric and always ready to help our people to define what they want to make an impact on and craft their learning plan accordingly.

Cool Perks/Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangement; Flexible working hours.
• Relax and unwind at the leisure area with video games, board games, books, and more.
• Wear your favourite jeans, or any cool OOTD so that you can work comfortably (in style).
• Coffee, tea, or snacks are available for consumption at the pantry. Because you'll be happier with a full tummy.
• A healthy body leads to a brilliant mind. Let's get moving with the inter-company sports team.
• There will be workshops, talent shows, sport activities, and other events for sharing and bonding.

Personal Data Protection

Setel Ventures Sdn Bhd ("Setel", "we", "our" "us") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Setel privacy statement ("Privacy Statement") explains what personal data we collect about you, when and why we collect it, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, your rights to your personal data and how we keep it secure. This Privacy Statement covers both our online and offline collection activities, including personal data that we collect through online platforms such as websites, applications, third party social networks or our online and physical events, or through other third parties that we work with. Please read this Privacy Statement carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data.