Strategy Lead

Strategy Lead

Full-Time 80000 - 100000 Β£ / year (est.) No working from home possible
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At a Glance

  • Tasks: Partner with the CEO to shape strategy and analyse UK retail investing trends.
  • Company: Dynamic fintech company focused on innovation and growth.
  • Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, and opportunities for professional development.
  • Other info: Join a collaborative team and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Why this job: Make a real impact in the fintech space and influence strategic decisions.
  • Qualifications: Experience in consulting or corporate strategy, with a strong understanding of UK retail investing.

The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 Β£ per year.

Overview Act as a thinking partner to the CEO and leadership team on strategy, leveraging the CEO's time on market scanning.

Maintain a current, segment-level view of the UK retail investor, drawing on existing research, Invest Engine customer data, Analytics and Marketing.

Develop and refresh the house view on where UK retail investing is going next: product trends, emerging categories, competitor positioning and monetisation.

Help shape Invest Engine\'s business model and monetisation across the value chain, customer-side and supply-side.

Act as a dedicated strategic input to the leadership team across Product and Marketing.

Build the commercial thesis for paid products.

Deliver commercial inputs for fundraising and board materials.

Translate ambiguous strategic questions into structured recommendations the leadership team can act on.

Requirements Experience in consulting, VC/PE, corporate strategy, or a similar role at a high-growth fintech or consumer business.

A real point of view on UK retail investing, ETFs and the wider investment-platform landscape.

Comfortable on both sides of the industry: demand side (UK retail investors, competitors, FCA developments) and supply side (asset managers across ETFs and mutual funds).

Track record of turning customer and market evidence into recommendations adopted by senior leaders.

Fluent in positioning, segmentation and narrative on one side; roadmap shaping, free-vs-paid tiering and commercial trade-offs on the other.

Builds credible LTV/CAC, payback and scenario models from scratch in a spreadsheet.

High ownership, strong written and verbal communication, comfortable challenging and being challenged.

Operates well in the grey: ambiguous inputs, incomplete data, senior stakeholders.

Background in fintech, asset management, brokerage or wealth platforms.

Working knowledge of UK regulatory direction (FCA Consumer Duty, advice/guidance boundary, targeted support).

Experience contributing to fundraising or board materials.

Hard Skills consulting corporate strategy market analysis product trends commercial modeling LTV/CAC modeling payback modeling scenario modeling data analysis recommendation development Soft Skills strategic thinking communication ownership adaptability collaboration problem-solving leadership critical thinking influencing narrative development #J-18808-Ljbffr

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We think you need these skills to ace Strategy Lead

Strategic Thinking
Market Analysis
Product Trends
Commercial Modelling
LTV/CAC Modelling
Payback Modelling
Scenario Modelling