Here’s what you’ll be doing:
You’ll be leading ‘the ideation, development and launch of new revenue streams that deliver profitable growth by continuing to provide simplicity, choice and value to SB’s current and future customers’ ‘Future customers’ primarily being new audiences.
Reporting to Jodi (Chief Commercial Officer) you will form part of the commercial leadership team within Simply Business. This role will be the leading light in developing future innovative growth.
As our Commercial Director, you’ll:
- look out to the future for growth opportunities, whilst leading the team delivering the ‘here and now’ balancing the resource and priorities
- apply external context, knowledge, and trends into the commercial team and beyond, pushing boundaries to support differentiation for SB in the market
- determine new market opportunities, qualifying product/market, setting strategy and defining the SB proposition
- engage with the UK senior Exec team to build New Markets strategy; resolving blockers to effective delivery with aligned business wide support
We’re looking for someone who:
- is a strategic, visionary leader able to create a compelling strategy, instil confidence and create followership whilst setting a clear direction empowering the team to achieve results in unknown territories
- drives delivery and decisions, leading the team through high-pressure periods, building resilience to cope and adapt
- a strong negotiator and influencer who resolves challenges and supports key stakeholders to break boundaries and take risks
- is able to continuously improve understanding of customers, leading with insight into trends and their changing needs
- undertakes product-market fit having successfully worked within structured frameworks to drive quality and controls into the creative process
(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)
We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.
This role is regulated by the FCA and it will have specific responsibilities under those regulations. We'll explain these to you as part of the hiring process.
If you're applying for a role in which you'll performing Senior Management Functions under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime (SM&CR), you'll also be subject to enhanced check and referencing in accordance with the FCA's guidelines.
If you’re knowledgeable about the external landscape, understand how this impacts our responses to business problems, apply today.
About Simply Business
We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.
We’re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.
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What are the benefits of working at Simply Business?
We offer a great work-life balance where every team member has a manageable workload and the flexibility to work hybrid.
On top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer leave that suits your needs. Plus the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits.
Our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want – with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.
Our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And as a thank you to our long-serving employees we offer a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service.
And our core benefits can put your mind at ease with private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition. And a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses.
We also make sure you’re compensated fairly with a competitive salary based on your experience and the market we’re in. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance.
There’s access to the tools to support your personal development with programmes on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling.
We’ll match what you put into your pension up to five per cent. And pass on a tax-free sum that’s four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy, with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme
Our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service).
And our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership.
Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.
Simply Business London, England Office
Close to Moorgate and Bank underground stations. In the heart of London's finance business district, with so many amazing lunch options we even created a spreadsheet with the best rated lunches scored by SBers.
