At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the commercial strategy to drive growth and profitability in the UK market.
- Company: Join Domestic & General, a company with a rich 100-year legacy and exciting growth plans.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, generous leave, health benefits, and career progression opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for international expansion and personal development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping commercial priorities and driving sustainable revenue.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in commercial leadership and strong analytical skills required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
We're looking for an exceptional Commercial Director to join our UK Market team at Domestic & General. This is a newly created, high-impact role reporting directly to the President of UK Market, where you will lead the commercial agenda-shaping and delivering strategy across growth, pricing, market focus, and customer approach to drive sustainable revenue and margin performance. They will translate business strategy into clear, actionable commercial priorities, aligning teams, investment, and decision-making behind the initiatives that unlock profitable growth while strengthening commercial discipline across the organisation. Bringing both strategic insight and operational rigour, they will enable high-quality decision-making across growth, pricing, proposition development, and performance management—ensuring we deliver long-term value in a competitive market.
Responsibilities
- Owning and shaping the commercial agenda for the UK market, ensuring growth priorities are aligned to strategy and market opportunity.
- Setting direction across pricing, proposition, and go-to-market activity to deliver sustainable revenue and margin growth.
- Identifying and unlocking growth opportunities across segments, propositions, and commercial levers to strengthen competitive performance.
- Translating strategy into clear commercial priorities, plans, and performance expectations across the market.
- Balancing growth ambition with commercial discipline, making informed trade-offs across revenue, margin, and customer outcomes.
- Aligning teams around shared commercial objectives, ensuring clarity, focus, and accountability across functions.
- Monitoring performance and using insight, data, and market trends to continuously refine priorities and approach.
- Sponsoring key commercial initiatives and investments, ensuring focus on the highest-impact opportunities.
- Leading in-period trading activity, translating strategy into decisive actions and market responses across channels.
- Partnering closely with Commercial Finance to ensure robust, insight-led decision-making across pricing, propositions, and investment.
- Building strong, effective relationships across the business to drive alignment and execution of commercial priorities.
- Representing the commercial agenda in senior forums, providing clear recommendations and performance insight.
- Driving consistency in how commercial priorities are communicated, delivered, and tracked across the market.
Qualifications
- Significant experience in commercial leadership, with deep expertise across growth strategy, pricing, proposition development, go-to-market, and performance management.
- A strong understanding of how commercial decisions translate into revenue, margin, and customer outcomes.
- Proven experience operating across multiple functions, with the ability to influence and align senior stakeholders in complex, matrixed environments.
- Sound commercial, operational, and customer judgement, with the ability to balance growth ambition, market opportunity, and financial discipline.
- Strong analytical capability, able to use data, insight, and market trends to shape decisions and drive performance.
- The ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, bringing clarity, focus, and direction.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank/public holidays, with an annual option to buy up to 5 additional days.
- Training opportunities and clearly defined career progression.
- Health cash plan with employer-funded cover for healthcare costs, including dental, optical, physiotherapy, and 24/7 virtual GP service.
- Attractive company pension scheme.
- Life assurance – employer funded cover of 4x basic salary.
- Dedicated online benefit portal with savings, lending facilities, financial wellbeing and support services.
- Salary Finance – access to savings and borrowing through payroll.
- Car Leasing – carbon-neutral salary sacrifice car leasing scheme.
- Travel Loans – interest-free loans for annual travel tickets.
- Cycle to Work – tax-efficient bike and cycling equipment.
- Health & Wellbeing – discounted gym membership and virtual fitness and cooking classes.
- OnHand – opportunity to volunteer via an Eco & Social app.
- Employee Assistance Programme – specialist advice and support on finance, relationships, illness and family issues.
- Free Domestic & General protection plan with discounted rates on additional plans.
- Employee discounts on a range of retailers.
Commercial Director employer: Domestic & General
At Domestic & General, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that values innovation and collaboration. Our dynamic work culture fosters professional growth through comprehensive training opportunities and a clear career progression path, all while offering competitive benefits such as a health cash plan, generous annual leave, and a commitment to employee wellbeing. Join us in our exciting journey of expansion and make a meaningful impact in a supportive environment that champions both personal and professional development.
