Strategic Initiatives 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 Strategic Initiatives Manager to join us. You will lead and own the end-to-end development and management of the Retail Retirement (Retail Annuities and Home Finance) strategic vision and initiatives, acting as a critical partner for all key stakeholders across the Retail Retirements division, including the Managing Director and direct reports

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborating with the leadership team to outline the strategy and vision, including key initiatives aligned with the Division/Group's outcomes and objectives, focusing on commercial aspects, customer requirements, operational efficiency, and risks
• Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of the market and wider macro-environment, considering how the strategy should evolve to adapt to changes
• Creating and delivering strategic content to meet the needs of key Divisional and Group stakeholders, as well as various committees, ensuring adherence to all Group guidelines for critical deliverables (e.g., Strategic planning)
• Embedding the strategy within the wider business, working closely with the leadership team and Retail Communications team to leverage events and communications, ensuring alignment with the strategic vision
• Managing the ongoing performance of strategic initiatives, working with Finance, Operations, and Business Performance teams to ensure financial targets and business objectives are met
• Establishing and facilitating fit-for-purpose governance across the Retail Retirement business unit to run day-to-day operations, including effective and well-governed Board Meetings/Executive Committee meetings and other critical forums (e.g., QBRs), managing the collation and development of papers, and maintaining appropriate records of minutes and actions
• Ensuring that the principles of Conduct Risk are embedded into day-to-day operations to deliver good customer outcomes, by designing and performing all business processes and internal controls to demonstrate effective management of Conduct Risk

Who we're looking for:

• Experience of financial services, ideally pensions and retirement, with good knowledge of: product and proposition design and management, regulatory environment relevant to pensions and retirement markets and product management and governance
• Experience of financial services, ideally pensions and retirement
• Working within an Agile delivery methodology and environment
• Demonstrated experience in development and execution of product strategy and vision
• Understanding impacts of legislation and regulations
• Strong customer orientation
• Using a broad range of data, market awareness and insight to make key business decisions
• Strong leadership capability and proven ability to influence senior business stakeholders

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, 26 days after 2 years’ service. 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 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices 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.