Senior Trading Manager - Salary: National - circa £70,000 / London - circa £80,000
This is a great role for someone looking for an opportunity to work for one of the country's largest insurers, leading an area of key strategic focus.
We are looking for highly motivated individuals, with a natural curiosity and eagerness, who understands the market in which we operate, who find data driven solutions to performance issues through business insight, allowing us to make astute commercial decisions to drive the business forward.
A bit about the job:
The role, Senior Insurance Trading Manager, is within Personal Lines Retail, which is one of Aviva's major growth areas, often seen as its 'shop window' and the primary touch point for customers through its advanced digital channels.
We want to be the number one home, motor & travel insurer in the market, and to achieve that we need to be ahead of our competitors with how we optimise our pricing and product propositions, with a challenge to grow our business and our market share significantly.
To help us achieve this, we are recruiting for a Senior Trading Manager role, to take ownership of Aviva Direct - Motor, Home and Travel, playing a key strategic role in growing our direct customer base, and leverage opportunity for building customer product holdings across the Aviva product range.
Skills and experience we're looking for:
* Commercial awareness and understanding of the General Insurance market is essential, ideally motor/home.
* Delivering and improving portfolio and product performance reporting on weekly KPIs, by taking ownership and driving initiatives and outcomes.
* Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to lead, engage, influence, and motivate the matrix team (marketing, pricing, underwriting, operations...), inspiring high performance.
* Confidence in constructively challenging the status quo, leading change, simplifying, and adapting at pace.
* Ability to source and analyse various sources of information, translating complex analysis into meaningful insight and action.
What you'll get for this role:
Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.
* Starting salary circa £70,000 (National) / circa £80,000 (London) (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
* Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's.
* Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
* 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
* Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
* Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
* Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave
* Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
* Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
* We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools
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Aviva is for everyone:
We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.
We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working - spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.
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