Senior Strategy Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the Chief of Staff team at Shawbrook supporting continued evolution and delivery of our strategy. The successful candidate will work closely with the Executive Committee owning and coordinating key Groupwide strategic projects.

The Strategy Manager will support Executive members to deliver on the Groups strategic priorities including playing a key role in owning and delivering short to medium term process efficiencies and benefits. They will assist in key often confidential projects to support the Executive Committee.

Key attributes are flexibility resilience being selfsufficient and thriving in a fastpaced environment. They must be able to create compelling presentations have good analytical skills and be comfortable working with colleagues at all levels. The candidate must have a good knowledge of the financial services industry and a keen interest in digital advancement and trends. 

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Ownership and coordination of Groupwide strategic projects: prepare and input into ExCo and Board papers mobilise new projects follow up on agreed actions and drive continued momentum.
• Insights and challenge: leverage digital and operational expertise to challenge business teams on their approach helping to ensure that a consistent approach is being adopted across the organisation.
• Analytical support: work with Finance HR and other teams to provide analysis to support strategic projects.
• Scaling our platform: Work with CEO and ExCo members to identify and deliver on opportunities to streamline processes and create efficiencies helping to scale our platform to support our business growth objectives.
• Market insights: keep abreast of emerging market and digital trends and share insights to help ensure we stay ahead as an organisation.
• Strategy development and : work with Chief of Staff to support continued strategy evolution and implementation throughout the annual planning cycle.
• Communications: work with IR marketing and internal communications teams to develop and deliver a consistent strategic narrative.

Qualifications :

• Minimum 5 years professional experience within a similar function ideally gained within a financial services or consultancy environment.
• Able to demonstrate a good knowledge of both Financial Services and Tech.
• Comfortable working with colleagues at all levels and able to demonstrate excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Advanced Excel and Powerpoint knowledge.

Additional Information :

Your Wellbeing We take your health and wellbeing very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns mental wellbeing and more general queries around family work housing and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle Its important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when youre enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexiholiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution Were focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime

Key Skills
Marketing,Data Visualization,Tableau,Customer Segmentation,Microsoft Powerpoint,Investment Banking,Strategic Planning,Financial Modeling,Customer relationship management,Management Consulting,Google Suite,Analytics
Experience:years
Vacancy:1