Strategy Manager, Group Strategy (12 months)

Join us as a Strategy Manager, Group Strategy

• Ready to make a real and positive difference to the lives of people, families and businesses across the UK?
• You'll bring together the who, what, why and how of our purpose-led strategy to accelerate our transformation into a relationship bank for today's digital world.
• Our organisation is large and complex, but we're agile and innovative too, breaking new ground every day to meet the future needs of our customers.
• If you want to make an impact, we want to hear from you - so apply now and let's shape the future of banking today, together.
• We're offering this role for a period of 12 months.

What you'll do

As a Strategy Manager within Group Strategy, you'll steer our purpose-driven strategy towards further growth and long-term sustainable value for our customers, shareholders and the wider UK economy.

Your biggest challenge? The world around us. Our industry is fast moving and competitive, driven by evolving customer needs and an increasingly digital world. This brings a range of strategic and transformational issues - issues you'll need to navigate at pace so we can prepare for change, respond quickly, and continue to create long term value.

You'll make an impact by:

• Providing thought leadership and interpretive thinking to define, shape and progress business critical issues and develop innovative solutions.
• Creating comprehensive business plans and financial projections for new and continuing products and services.
• Providing in-depth analysis on a range of strategic themes including businesses performance, competitor activity, potential business opportunities and customer behaviours to drive innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Playing a leading role in identifying and managing the Group's top strategic issues and agenda.
• Establishing key strategic messages to be communicated to clients, the media and investors.
• Managing the strategy cycle collaborating with the Board, ManCo and ExCo, aligning strategic delivery across the bank's franchises and functions.

The skills you'll need

You'll bring a broad mix of skills, but it's your passion and experience that will set you apart.

You'll need:

• Experience of leading and delivering multiple projects across a large, diverse organisation, ranging from product development to fundamental change.
• A thorough knowledge of financial services, our bank, its customers, products and services.
• A strong understanding of the relevant regulatory requirements, risk management, control framework and governance processes with experience in responding to regulator reviews.
• The ability to address the most complex strategic problems, building mandates for change and leading teams to accelerate progress and delivery.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to simplify complex and conflicting tasks and policy positions, ensuring that these are effectively managed and communicated.

And you'll bring this all together with your:

• Leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent communication and presentations skills.
• Strategic mindset and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
• Readiness to listen to, understand and include diverse perspectives.
• Interpersonal skills.

Hours: 35

Job Posting Closing Date: 27/08/2024

Ways of Working: Hybrid