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Salary band Any Salary details Up to £70K Location South East Job type Permanent Company TheLadders.co.uk Contact unknown Job sectors Banking/Finance Job disciplines Marketing Employment Type All Posted 31/01/2012 Expires 28/02/2012

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Role: Commercial Policy Director

Location: Kingswood, UK

Salary: Up to £70,000

 

 

Job Summary

The retail savings market in the UK is worth an estimated £1.4trn in assets and over the next five years is expected to undergo an unprecedented level of change. Factors such as the RDR, Nest, Auto-enrolment, EU policy reviews and Government policy will all clearly have an impact, driving dramatic shifts in the underlying economics of our business and how we engage with retail customers.

Whilst L&G currently has a clear strategy for engaging in the market there is a need to ensure that this is constantly reviewed, updated and impacted in light of the evolving threats and challenges to it. Many of which are not yet clearly defined or understood.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

You will have responsibility for defining policy for the distribution of our retail market strategy for savings products and services in response to external influencers such as European and UK regulatory change, Government policy, socio-economic change and demographic shifts.

 

Further, in response to such regulatory and legislative change you will also be responsible for working with various stakeholders and resources across the wider Group of businesses in order to define and execute influencing strategies and lobbying activity on behalf of the Savings division.

 

You will be expected to consistently demonstrate a clear understanding of the key factors that will, or have the potential to, impact how we participate in the retail savings market place and the likely commercial impacts. You will clearly identify and articulate the risks and opportunities for a variety of stakeholders and be able to investigate and recommend sound strategies to mitigate them. Clearly articulating the need for change and wherever necessary use the acquired knowledge to input and sign-off key strategic proposition developments across the division.

• Define and maintain L&Gs sales & marketing strategy for participating in the UK retail savings market. Create compelling, logical and evidence-based arguments to achieve buy-in and consensus across the business to ensure L&G delivers against these strategies.
• Establish a framework to identify and monitor a complete range of external influencers that might impact how we distribute our products in the retail savings market. Ensuring appropriate analysis and investigation is completed.
• Ensure that the relevant business and governance meetings across P&D, Savings and the wider Group are kept fully informed of the strategic and commercial impacts of changes affecting the UK retail savings market.
• Work across the wider Group to define, agree and execute influencing strategies designed to ensure beneficial regulatory and legislative outcomes for L&G and its customers.
• Fully impact all such change against current strategy including commercial impacts, proposition and market positioning.
• Help establish L&G thought leadership credentials across the industry in relation the distribution of retail savings products.
• Provide input and sign-off for the development of key distribution propositions using acquired knowledge of the wider market to ensure that developments are consistent with our strategy, viable and, where appropriate, future-proofed.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience required

• Excellent understand of UK retail financial services distribution.
• Established contacts within the FS industry to drive effective intelligence gathering and lobbying.