Commercial Excellence (Strategy), Senior Manager in City of London

At Bionic, we’re on a mission to make it radically easier to run a small business. As the UK’s leading business comparison and switching service, we help thousands of small and medium‑sized businesses save time and money on essentials like energy, broadband, insurance, and finance. We combine smart technology with real human support to match our customers with the best deals – quickly and effortlessly.

About the Role

As the Senior Manager for Commercial Excellence (Strategy), you’ll play a key role in steering profitable growth across Bionic. You’ll partner closely with senior leaders, bringing structured thinking and sharp commercial analysis to questions like channel economics, resource allocation, and performance optimisation. You’ll shape the insight that informs executive decision‑making and produce the materials that drive those discussions. You’ll also contribute to major strategic initiatives including M&A, business case development, and cross‑functional projects that link strategy, finance, and operations. This role would suit someone with strong analytical instincts, a consultative mindset, and a track record in management consulting, corporate strategy, or commercial finance.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner to the Head of Pricing & Profitability and senior leadership, shaping decisions through clear, insight‑driven narratives.
• Analyse core commercial performance metrics including acquisition costs, customer lifetime value, and contribution margins to guide decision making.
• Surface strategic opportunities to improve performance through pricing, channel mix, and conversion optimisation.
• Build reporting that strengthens visibility of profitability by channel and embed commercial accountability with channel leads.
• Develop, maintain, and stress‑test commercial models such as unit economics and profitability frameworks.
• Deliver scenario analysis to inform hiring decisions, resourcing choices, and operational trade‑offs.
• Work with Sales and Operations to align modelling outputs with channel growth plans.
• Support strategic projects and M&A through commercial due diligence, market analysis, and integration planning.
• Build and manage business cases for new verticals, propositions, and investment opportunities.
• Assess pricing and margin impacts of strategic initiatives and partner with CFO, CCO, and Finance on high‑impact ad‑hoc projects.
• Convert data into clear insights, trends, and recommendations for leadership forums.
• Coordinate inputs across Finance, Channel Leads, and Exec stakeholders to ensure reviews are focused, insight‑rich, and drive decisions.
• Produce high‑quality materials for weekly and quarterly profitability review sessions.

About You

At interview, you’ll be able to demonstrate:

• Strategic & commercial mindset – You’ll be skilled at spotting and driving revenue opportunities.
• Data‑driven decision making – Turning complex data into clear, actionable strategies.
• Strong influencing ability – Engaging senior leaders and driving business impact.
• Execution‑focused – Delivering results in fast‑paced, high‑growth environments.
• Collaboration – Successfully delivering cross‑functional projects and aligning key stakeholders.
• Ownership & impact – Taking charge of key initiatives and ensuring measurable success.
• Clear communicator & problem solving – Simplifying complex ideas for diverse audiences.

Interview Process

• Initial conversation with one of our Talent Acquisition Team.
• 1st stage Teams interview with the hiring manager.
• Final stage in‑person interview, with a case study style presentation.

Benefits

We know that our employees are what sets us aside from our competitors, our benefits are just part of the way we say thanks.

• Enhance your health & wellbeing: Private healthcare cover, Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies, Eyecare scheme.
• Taking time away from work: 25 days annual leave, increasing with tenure, 1 paid family & religious day of leave per year – following successful probation period, 1 paid charity volunteering day per year, Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year.
• Family matters: for the special moments: Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave, 2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service.
• Financial wellbeing: Auto‑enrolled salary sacrifice pension scheme, Life assurance, Season ticket loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home – based on tenure, Cycle to work scheme.
• Recognition: Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success, Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition, Long service awards.