Head of Commercial Office, UK

The Head of Commercial Office is a senior leadership role sitting at the heart of FNZ's commercial engine. This is not a traditional sales support function — it is the operational and strategic backbone of how FNZ grows its client base and its most important client relationships. The role exists to ensure that FNZ's client-facing teams are operating at their highest possible effectiveness— removing friction, driving discipline, improving quality and enabling the business to move faster and more consistently across the sales and client lifecycle.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Commercial Strategy & Enablement
  • Own the Commercial Office as a function — defining its purpose, structure, processes and performance standards
  • Partner with the Chief Commercial Officer and Head of UK Sales to translate commercial strategy into operational reality
  • Build and maintain FNZ's commercial playbook — from proposal, negotiation and contract execution
  • Drive pipeline hygiene and forecasting discipline across the UK sales and client teams
  • Lead preparation of board-level and executive commercial reporting — pipeline, win/loss analysis, revenue forecasting, market coverage
• Sales Support & Operations
  • Lead and develop a high-performing sales support and sales administration team
  • Oversee the commercial documentation — ensuring quality, accuracy and on-time delivery
  • Own CRM governance and adoption — ensuring Microsoft Dynamics is used consistently and generates actionable commercial intelligence
  • Manage the commercial calendar — exec engagements and client events
  • Coordinate across Legal, Finance, Risk and Technology to accelerate deal structuring and contract execution
  • Establish clear operating rhythms and handoff protocols between central Commercial Office, UK Sales team and downstream Delivery functions — ensuring consistency, pace and accountability across the full commercial lifecycle
• Bid & Proposal Management
  • Define and enforce content standards, ensuring core commercial materials are produced to a high level of completeness for existing clients, enabling effective localization and rapid turnaround
  • Build a library of reusable commercial content — case studies, capability statements
  • Introduce quality standards and peer review processes to raise the bar on every client-facing document FNZ produces
• Client Onboarding & Transition Support
  • Support commercial negotiations and contract reviews for existing clients — renewals, expansions and scope changes
• Market Intelligence
  • Maintain FNZ's view of the competitive landscape in conjunction with UK Client solutions team — tracking competitor positioning, win/loss patterns and market developments that affect commercial strategy
  • Provide the Sales, client solutions and client relationship management teams with the intelligence and tools they need to compete effectively across adviser platform, D2C, workplace and wealth segments

LEADERSHIP & TEAM

• Line management of the Sales Support and Sales Administration team — typically 4–8 people depending on scope
• Act as a connector across Client Relationship, Sales, Client Solutions, Marketing, Finance, Legal and Product — ensuring the commercial function operates as a joined-up system rather than a series of handoffs
• Build a culture of commercial discipline, quality and accountability within the team and across the client-facing teams

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Experience

• Significant experience in a commercial operations, or client and sales enablement leadership role within financial services, fintech or B2B technology
• Proven track record of building and running high-performing commercial support functions in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment
• Familiarity with the UK wealth management and platform technology landscape is a strong advantage
• CRM administration and commercial reporting experience — Microsoft Dynamics preferred

Skills & Attributes

• Exceptional organisational rigour — able to manage multiple competing priorities and deadlines without dropping quality
• Strong written communication — able to write, edit and improve executive presentations and client-facing documents to a high standard
• Comfortable operating at senior levels — able to influence and challenge as well as support
• Data-driven — uses pipeline and performance data to identify issues and improve outcomes
• A builder — drawn to the challenge of creating structure, process and capability where it doesn't yet fully exist
• Leadership presence — able to attract, develop and retain talented people in a fast-moving environment

WHY THIS ROLE

FNZ is at an important inflection point commercially. With $2.5 trillion in AUA globally, a renewed focus on client delivery under Blythe Masters the business is building the commercial infrastructure to match its ambition. This role will shape how FNZ presents itself and how it converts opportunity into long-term client relationships. For the right person it is a rare opportunity to build something significant inside one of the most consequential businesses in global wealth management.