Strategy Manager

Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. 

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

We’re recruiting for a Strategy Manager to join us. The Retail Strategy team is a high performing and important part of the division, directly supporting the CEO and senior leaders across the business in developing our strategy and solve their most complex problems.

The role holders core responsibility will be to support the Head of Retail Strategy in developing the Retail strategy. The majority of the role holders remaining time will be spent owning and delivering a wide range of strategic initiatives (e.g. market entry assessments, proposition development and competitor insight) for the division, fostering relationships and working directly with senior business leaders.

A key aspect of the role is ensuring strategic alignment between the ‘top-down’ Retail strategic priorities, ‘bottom-up’ business areas strategies and ever-changing industry trends and competitor dynamics. The role holder will promote best practice collaboration and deliver pan-Retail initiatives, servant leading the Business Owner community to drive high value insights and recommendations.

What you'll be doing:

• Support coordination of Retail Quarterly Business Reviews (incl. maintaining of strategic OKR dashboard). Providing MDs / Programme Sponsor support; using a combination of strong leadership skills, business and market expertise to enable key Execs to articulate and drive their business strategies with the right behaviours
• Owning and solving strategic analysis by conducting and delivering quantitative / qualitative analysis (including customer research and insight) and synthesising findings into strategic recommendations
• Support in the facilitating and coordinating strategic workshops with relevant senior stakeholder and decision makers
• Conduct competitor and market analysis to inform the Retail strategy and business area strategies & own 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

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.