Company Description
Here at esure, we're no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we're getting ready for more. It's creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.
Job Description
We are look for a Strategy Manager to make a significant impact on our customer's journey. The successful individual will drive the strategic direction of our business by harnessing data, insights, and partnerships. Your expertise will craft our business strategy and future growth.
Experience with Strategy Management in either a consultancy or in-house environment is needed to be successful in this role.
What will my role entail?
- Collect, analyse, and disseminate critical insights on customer behaviour, market trends, and competitor actions.
- Bring into play internal dashboards and forums to extract and interpret data.
- Supervise and report on market dynamics, leveraging public data and financial reports.
- Effectively communicate insights to senior partners through esure Group.
- Lead the creation and presentation of regular performance reports, including customer journeys and commercial outcomes.
- Work collaborative with key business functions (Finance, Pricing, Customer, Operations) to integrate data and insights.
- Work with design and delivery teams to align customer data analysis with strategic objectives.
- Build positive relationships with squads to identify growth opportunities and track the impact of strategic initiatives.
- Drive the coordination and analysis of our strategy for periodic senior management reviews.
- Assist in prioritising pivotal initiatives through detailed analysis and collaborative planning.
- Lead the evaluation of new business opportunities, including partnerships and InsurTech collaborations.
- Develop and manage briefing documents, relationship management, and day-to-day communications with partners.
- Coordinate and maintain key strategic and customer risk registers, ensuring controls are identified, supervised, and reviewed.
- Craft materials for conferences, analyst reports, fundraising, and meetings with market leaders.
You're a great fit if you have:
- Extensive experience in strategy and/or business development within consulting or in-house environments.
- Expertise in UK, US, or European retail financial services, with a deep understanding of the sector's dynamics.
- Outstanding communication skills, capable of producing compelling materials for Executive & Board-level audiences.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills, with proficiency in tools like Excel and commercial reporting systems.
Qualifications
You're a great fit if you have:
- Extensive experience in strategy and/or business development within consulting or in-house environments.
- Expertise in UK, US, or European retail financial services, with a deep understanding of the sector's dynamics.
- Outstanding communication skills, capable of producing compelling materials for Executive & Board-level audiences.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills, with proficiency in tools like Excel and commercial reporting systems.
Additional Information
Why choose us?
This is your opportunity to be at the forefront of our game-changing journey and be part of something truly special! And to top it off, here are some perks to life at esure...
- A competitive salary that recognises your skills and potential
- A bonus scheme that celebrates your contribution to esure's success
- Discounts on our insurance products, for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave, plus 8 flex days to be taken as and when suits you
- Benefits just for you: our hub – My Benefits Box – is loaded with perks to choose from, so you can build a personal toolkit to support your health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and finances.
- Grow your career with us: whatever your goals, we'll support you with hands-on training, mentoring, a LinkedIn Learning licence, access to our exclusive Academies, regular career conversations, and expert partner resources from the likes of Women in Data and Women in Tech.
- Join our communities: our networks give you the chance to connect, learn and share with like-minded colleagues across the business – for work and play. So, it's no surprise our people consistently rate ‘making friends at work' one of the highest scorers in our colleague engagement survey
- More flexibility for you: we're a proud supporter of the ABI's Make Flexible Work campaign and welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need, whether it's part time, job sharing, or compressed hours. Our hybrid working approach also puts you in the driving seat of how and where you do your best work.
- Live a healthy lifestyle: we offer lots of support, so you feel like the best version of yourself – like specialist advice through our employee assistance programme, wellbeing classes, access to the My Health Advantage app, our Big Team Challenge, and learning sessions on topics like menopause.
- A helping hand to do your bit for a greener and safer world: driving good in the world couldn't be more important to us. That's why we encourage colleagues to use volunteering days to support their local communities and have lots of initiatives to help you live a greener lifestyle.
- Everyday appreciation: praise from your colleagues means the world! Our social recognition tool makes it easy to give colleagues the praise they deserve, and you could even be shortlisted for a company-wide ACE Award.
We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you're not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.