Senior Strategy Manager

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

We’re recruiting for a Senior Strategy Manager to join us. The role of a Senior Strategy Manager is crucial in supporting the Head of Retail Strategy with the development and execution of the Retail strategy. This position involves a high level of responsibility, including deputizing for the Head of Retail Strategy, managing senior stakeholder relationships, and leading the divisions most complex / scaled strategic engagements.

The role holder will be instrumental in managing the Retail OKR/QBR process, including reporting to the Group CEO, and aiding business areas in defining and monitoring their OKRs. They will also keep a pulse on industry trends and competitor dynamics, synthesizing this information for the Retail Exec.

Furthermore, the Senior Strategy Manager will foster best practice collaboration and spearhead pan-Retail initiatives, while serving as a leader to the Business Owner community. This role is not just about strategy development but also about ensuring effective execution and fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence across the Retail division.

What you'll be doing:

• Driving  the strategic planning process by developing Retail board papers, reports, presentations and supporting material in accordance with Group planning guidelines, coordinating Retail Quartlerly Business Reviews and supporting MDs in the development of business area strategies
• Owning and solving highly complex strategic analysis by, conducting and delivering quantitative / qualitative analysis (including customer research and insight) and synthesising findings into strategic recommendations
• Facilitating and coordinating strategic workshops with relevant senior stakeholder and decision makers
• Overseeing the conduct competitor and market analysis to inform the Retail strategy and business area strategies  - leading on the synthesis of findings to Retail leadership
• Overseeing the development of the UK FS landscape map
• Supporting the Head of Strategy with adhoc requests from the CEO and Exec team (E.g.  CFO, MDs, CTO), such as  performing competitor analysis, market sizing, focussed research
• Supporting the definition, and development of a strategy and plan to ensure business development activities are delivered in line with Legal & General’s Customer Experience and Treating Customers Fairly

Who we're looking for:

• Related academic qualifications, ideally in business / management / economics or equivalent
• Relevant strategic / management consulting experience with a focus on Financial Services (markets such as Pensions, Savings, Retirement, Protection and Mortgages are preferable).
• Strategic planning processes and approaches
• Financial modelling
• Strong research and analytical skills to derive relevant insights
• Strong written and oral communication (incl. high proficiency in PowerPoint) – to clearly articulate and develop compelling messaging and analysis to engage senior stakeholders.
• Ability to build relationships, make connections and interact effectively with both senior leaders and divisional colleagues, and challenge stakeholders where necessary
• Foundational financial modelling ability (e.g. creating simple market sizing and forecasting)
• Customer consciousness and awareness
• Management of small team

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes 
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance  
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
• Recommend L&G as a wonderful place to work and earn referral money if someone you know joins us
• Access to hundreds of discounts, both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online  
• Flexible working options, including recently redesigned and award-winning offices which are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.