Director, Strategy

at  Simply Business

This role will report into the UK CEO and be a member of the UK Executive Team. This role is responsible for helping to shape the UK Business Strategy to continue our growth journey, working closely with UK leadership and cross-functionally to drive market and competitor intelligence, lead horizon 3 strategic evaluations, and optimise strategy execution. This role will initially have one direct report to support day-to-day activities.

REQUIREMENTS

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• Strategic Thinker: Demonstrated ability to think strategically, analyse complex problems, develop and implement creative solutions and drive results

• Data-Driven Problem-solver: Comfortable working with data and using it to inform decision-making; highly analytical with the ability to diagnose and solve complex problems
• Collaborative team player and relationship builder: Collaborator with enterprise-wide mindset and the ability to build strong relationships across the organisation and across the Insurance, InsurTech and FinTech industry. Strong influencing skills to help bring SBers on a journey with them
  This role is regulated by the FCA and it will have specific responsibilities under those regulations. We’ll explain these to you as part of the hiring process.
  If you’re applying for a role in which you’ll performing Senior Management Functions under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime (SM&CR), you’ll also be subject to enhanced check and referencing in accordance with the FCA’s guidelines.

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• Bringing together both internal Customer insight and external Market and Competitors insight to help Executive team identify strategic opportunities for the UK business

• Monitor and evaluate the competitive market landscape, movements and risks to assess SB’s relative position to major industry players and innovative start-upsIdentify strategic opportunities (and/or risks) for SB considering SB’s competitive landscape and moves its competitors make or plan
• Ensure internal and external data insights are combined to inform business decisions and behaviours to achieve SB’s vision and business objectives
• Levering insights from close partnership with our Shared Services teams, identify which new opportunities (new products / new markets) provide the greatest opportunity for SB to significantly grow its adjacency business
• Help shape our UK market strategy and own the OKR planning process to support delivery
• Developing horizon 3 thinking and opportunity identification to build innovation pipeline, including how we monetise our data as a competitive advantage
• Working with Exec leadership across the Group and using injections from external sources, run innovation sessions to build a potential innovation pipeline.
• Specifically: working with our Data & Analytics team, Risk and Compliance and Chief Commercial Officer, fully evaluate data as a competitive advantage and capability for SB, assessing how this might form part of SB’s commercial model evolution
• Mentor and develop SBers to build a strong, cross-functional team capable of executing the innovation agenda
• Spend 10% of time connecting with, understanding and keeping up to speed on developments across US and Shared Services to inform strategy direction to adopt a group perspective