At Compare the Market (CtM) our purpose is to make great financial decision making a breeze for everyone, and that purpose drives us every day.
It’s why we’re on a mission to create an automated quoting engine, with the simplest of experiences, wrapped in a brand everyone loves!
We change lives by making it simple to switch and save money and that’s why good things happen when you meerkat.
We’d love you to be part of our journey.
We are recruiting for Manager – New Ventures for an initial 6 month contract, which sits within our Commercial Finance & Strategy team. You will support the Senior Manager on the identification, prioritisation, launch and growth management of new products that CtM doesn’t offer to customers today. You will take the lead on specific products/workstreams, developing deep insight into the business model, customer challenges and demands, profit pool opportunity and/or capability of potential partners and competitors
We hope to see strong execution skills, coordinating work across a broad range of cross-functional teams to facilitate a smooth launch process and effectively deliver on growth opportunities post-launch.
A highly exciting and growing area of the business to be working in, where no one day is the same as you leverage your strategic, commercial, product and project management skillset.

We champion a culture of innovation and challenge.

Some of the fantastic things you will be involved in:

• Work in close collaboration with the Senior Manager to understand customer needs and markets for new products, developing a strategy for CtM to deliver
• Lead Request For Information (RFI) processes, proactively developing direct relationships with market participants that could deliver compelling commercial and customer outcomes
• Identify, evaluate and pursue new Partnerships and/or value chain opportunities, utilising a variety of data sources to inform the approach
• Lead the onboarding process internally and with partners, with support from a broad range of cross-functional teams (including Legal, Compliance, Data, Tech, Product, Customer Ops and more)
• In collaboration with the Partner and relevant internal teams, identify, execute and evaluate the impact of growth opportunities once a new product has been launched to see whether it can achieve the desired success metrics
• Identify, monitor and mitigate Risks proactively and with strong understanding as to the relevant regulatory requirements (supported by relevant teams). Discharge responsibilities with due care and diligence, ensuring these regulatory requirements are met
• Protect the customer through robust due-diligence, execution and third-party management, ensuring appropriate policies and frameworks are followed to evidence good customer outcomes.

There’s something for everyone.

You’ll ideally have

• A [commercial AND / OR product background]
• Growth mindset and comfortable operating at a higher level of detail to inform the strategy
• Strong communication style and ability to influence stakeholders and partners
• Commercial focus and ability to interpret data from multiple sources to feed into decision making
• Comfortable following a test-and-learn approach, with the aim to iterate and improve over time
• Experience of managing partners, including relevant governance
• Been part of the launch or material change in a product – e.g. CX, QA, business readiness, training / onboarding processes, stakeholder mgmt. / monitoring / rollback plans etc.

We’re a place of opportunity. You’ll have the tools and autonomy to drive your own career, supported by a team of amazingly talented people.
And then there’s our benefits. For us, it’s not just about a competitive salary and hybrid working, we care about what matters to you.
From a generous holiday allowance and private healthcare to an electric car scheme and paid development, wellbeing and CSR days, we’ve pretty much got you covered!
Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments ahead of an interview

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