Lead Strategic Planning Analyst

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time

Salary Range: c. £60,000 depending on experience

Location: Eastleigh; hybrid, travel to our Eastleigh office on average 1 day per month depending on business need.

Closing Date: 14th July 2026

Are you passionate about turning strategy into action and influencing how a newly combined organisation delivers change? At Ageas UK, we're building a new Strategic Planning team and are looking for a Lead Strategic Planning Analyst to help shape its future. This is a unique opportunity to bring your expertise, challenge thinking, and influence stakeholders across the business as we build a unified approach to planning, prioritisation and performance management.

Working closely with senior leaders, you'll play a central role in supporting and leading the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) process, driving alignment across Ageas, esure and Saga, and helping colleagues navigate the integration journey together. You'll also provide coaching, guidance and quality oversight to Business Stakeholders and Strategic Planning Analysts, helping to develop capability and embed best practice across the team and wider organisation.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, preparation and facilitation of Quarterly Business Review (QBR) cycles, ensuring priorities, objectives and delivery plans are aligned across multiple portfolios and business areas.
• Partner with value stream leaders and senior stakeholders to provide strategic insight, challenge assumptions and support effective decision‑making across the organisation.
• Drive enterprise planning and governance activities, ensuring clear visibility of actions, risks, dependencies, priorities and performance against strategic objectives.
• Provide leadership and support for integration planning across Ageas, esure and Saga, helping teams coordinate delivery and maintain momentum on key business initiatives.
• Champion best practice in strategic planning, OKRs, performance management and planning tools, while coaching colleagues to strengthen planning capability across the business.

Skills and experience you need

• Strong experience in strategic planning, portfolio governance, project governance or programme governance within a complex business environment.
• Essential experience using Jira, with the ability to leverage planning and collaboration tools to support effective governance, prioritisation and delivery management.
• Proven experience operating within an agile environment, with a strong understanding of agile principles, planning frameworks and ways of working.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively, build alignment and partner effectively with senior leaders across the organisation.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, compelling narratives, insights and recommendations for decision‑makers.
• Experience supporting Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), strategic planning cycles or similar enterprise performance frameworks would be advantageous.
• Insurance industry experience is preferred.

Benefits

• Flexible Working – Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part‑time/job‑shares.
• We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
• Supporting your Health – Dental insurance, health cash plan, health screening, will writing, voluntary critical illness, mental health first aiders, wellbeing activities – mindfulness.
• Supporting your Wealth – 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, annual bonus schemes, annual salary reviews, competitive pension, employee savings, employee loans.
• Supporting you at Work – Well‑being activities, mindfulness sessions, sports and social club events and more.
• Supporting you and your family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non‑pregnant parent/co‑adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
• Benefits for them – Partner life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Get some Tech – Deals on various gadgets including wearables, tablets and laptops.
• Getting around – Car salary exchange, cycle scheme, vehicle breakdown cover.
• Supporting you back to work – Return to work programme after maternity leave.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role.