Workplace Proposition Manager (Investment focus)

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Location: Edinburgh, Barnwood or Bristol

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office locations.

About this opportunity:

The Propositions team looks after the management and development of our Workplace savings offering. This includes strategic and day to day planning and the design, maintenance and delivery of key proposition elements, the development and communication of the future roadmap, and monitoring the market to drive insights.

We're looking for an energetic Propositions Manager who'll play a key part in shaping these developments. We're investing heavily in building our customer experience, especially our Investment Proposition so this is an exciting opportunity to deliver new propositions to market.

Our team needs to understand what makes the difference to customers, clients and advisers to enable positive customer outcomes and win/retain schemes. Your mix of knowledge, skills and expertise will enable you to identify needs, taking complex developments and translating them into clear communications and insights. You'll use your knowledge and interpersonal skills to influence and manage a variety of key topics, engaging a broad range of audiences.

What you’ll be doing:

• Act as a specialist in the Workplace proposition and help build and maintain our offering to win in our markets.
• Applying knowledge to lead and manage the Take to Market plan for new developments which supports colleague understanding, new business opportunities, business retention and media impact, to help deliver our business objectives.
• Support the creation and development of the proposition roadmap and related materials to ensure accurate and up to date information is available to internal colleagues and external partners.
• Drive market insights drawing on competitor intelligence, internal data, analytics and research to build our knowledge base and data led approach to proposition development.
• Act as key contact for Workplace related campaigns, thought leadership initiatives and events, and overview of Marketing plan to maintain representation and prioritisation of Workplace activity.
• Risk management and compliance with regulatory requirements and Group procedures to avoid financial or reputational loss to the Group through poor customer or business outcomes.

What you’ll need:

• Understanding and experience of the workplace pensions market – including the competitive landscape, regulatory environment and key products, including Master Trust.
• A working knowledge of investments, especially in the Workplace market.
• Excellent written and verbal communications – ability to articulate a clear vision and purpose to colleagues, clients and intermediaries describing complicated messages with clarity, impact and customer focus.
• Commercially aware, understands the drivers of value for the workplace pensions business.
• Skilled at influencing and communicating to senior leaders.
• Highly organised, driven and self-accountable, able to make decisions and consistently achieve results. Proactive in pursuing new opportunities with high energy and enthusiasm.

We're looking to attract a diverse mix of candidates for this role, therefore if you don't feel you tick every requirement above, please don't be put off applying. Get in touch with us to let us know what experience you do have, and we'll consider your application.

The pension landscape is being revolutionised by technology, and this is an opportunity to be at the forefront. Could you be who we're looking for?! Apply today and find out more...