Strategic Pricing Lead

About The Role

The Strategic Pricing Lead is accountable for coordinating and overseeing the delivery of the Strategic Pricing outlook and Volume forecast, across all MO products. The role is also required to help meet the strategic goals and operational deliverables of the function and wider business. The role will also oversee an effective approach and framework for managing these programmes in conjunction with the Chief Asset Risk Officer, Leadership Teams and a variety of other key stakeholders.

Working as part of the Asset Risk Leadership Team, you will report to the Head of Strategic Pricing with the following responsibilities:

• Support the setting & delivery of the Asset Risk strategy in alignment with the needs of the wider business strategy.
• Oversee the delivery of the 5yr Strategic outlook and volume forecast across all MO product lines (car, WAV etc) working with the wider Asset Risk team, specifically the Market Risk Forecast Lead.
• Key understanding of the drivers of lease costs and their future forecasts to provide a narrative on their impact that supports wider business strategy.
• Ensure the volume forecasting is supported by a best in class ML capability to support volume planning, alternative scenarios and work with wider SLT and Exec to drive future business impact.
• Systems thinker to interrogate the interdependencies across all lease cost dynamics and the impact on the wider narrative around a future 5 year plan.
• Support the wider deliverables of the Pricing team.
• Working alongside the Pricing management team, ensure that you collaborate effectively with the Data Insight, product and modelling teams to support the future direction of Pricing within the Asset Risk roadmap.
• Operate an effective matrix 'way of working' with colleagues within Pricing and RV and SMR and across Asset Risk and the wider business where necessary, relating to the planning, execution and delivery of Team, Asset Risk and wider business goals.
• Ensure that pricing adheres to MO and Asset Risk governance approach.
• You will work with the Asset Risk Leadership Team to ensure the requirements of the Pricing Team are understood, planned and managed for all strategic projects and business as usual activity across the relevant time frames of 12 to 24 months.
• You will work with and support your fellow Leadership colleagues to develop strong colleague engagement and wellbeing through, for example, effective communication, development and training, recognition and inclusion.
• Develop collaborative and enduring relationships with the Asset Risk and wider business leadership team, relevant stakeholders, and be an advocate for Asset Risk and our ways of working.
• Be an advocate for Asset Risk, and work with colleagues around the business to promote best practices and skills & knowledge sharing.
• You will proactively engage with relevant 3rd parties (industry bodies, commentators and experts) to advocate for MO interests and to ensure Asset Risk activities are appropriately aligned with external best practice.
  

About You

• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders, colleagues and deadlines.
• Passionate about using data to provide meaningful insight and tell engaging stories that impact the future direction of MO strategy.
• Confident in ensuring data accuracy feeding models, insight and forecasts.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Can understand the business environment, market trends, and the financial impact of decisions to align models and impacts to the organisation's strategic goals.
• Ability to develop solutions for complex problems.
• Ability to build enduring relationships across the business and influence others.

Minimum criteria
You'll need all of these:

• Extensive experience of delivering data and insight activities across a group of multiple stakeholders.
• Considerable experience of forecasting complex business impacts and bringing to life for business strategy.
• Experience of delivering insight and solutions that have made tangible changes in a commercial environment.

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 815,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions.
• We drive change.
• We care.

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

• Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus.
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period).
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days.
• Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office.
• 1 day for volunteering.
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover.
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help.
• Funded health screening for over 50s.
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans.
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go.
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees.
• Generous family leave policies.

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.