At NatWest Boxed, we're here to power the UK's best embedded financial experiences.

Our Banking-as-a-Service platform enables large brands and fintechs to seamlessly offer own brand financial solutions to their customers, securely and at scale. Backed by NatWest, we offer ​digital wallets, card spending accounts, term loans and POS lending. Our end-to-end approach will take care of everything else, from compliance to resilient support for your end customers.

NatWest Boxed

Banking-as-a-service for businesses in the UK

Join us as a Strategy Manager at NatWest Boxed

In this key role, you’ll support all aspects of our strategic activities to help articulate, deliver, and align to our overall strategy and purpose in NatWest BaaS and MettleDay-to-day, you’ll be improving our customers’ experiences and delivering stated outcomes and measures in the most efficient and cost-effective wayIn return, you’ll enjoy valuable exposure to our senior stakeholders, including executive committeesThis role is available for a period of 9 months

What You'll Do

As a Strategy Manager, you’ll be contributing to the achievement of our business area's goals by providing appropriate and clear strategies. You’ll be helping to provide strategic analysis, customer insights and market context to support the development of our strategy while making sure that best in class approaches and lessons learned are built into our business strategy.

Your Other Key Responsibilities Will Include

Working with the function, businesses and relevant support and control functions to help develop robust strategies, plans and projectsMonitoring and analysing organisational and customer-facing business performance, competitor activity and financial analysis, new business opportunities and emerging trendsPreparing strategic materials for a variety of audiences (e.g., NatWest Boxed Executive Steering Committee, NatWest Retail ExCo)Contributing to developing a deep understanding of relevant issues, collaborating across the business to identify key areas informed by customer insights and market dynamicsEngaging with senior stakeholders including the NatWest Boxed Executive Committee to provide them with updates on our strategy including financial performance and progress to planBuilding strong relationships across the business as well as with strategy teams across the bank

The Skills You'll Need

You’ll already have experience of business strategy within a financial services environment or from strategy consulting experience. We’ll need you to bring a good understanding of the relevant sector, including an understanding of the current and future risks and opportunities facing the business.

On Top Of This, You’ll Need

Good communication skills with the ability to work with a range of stakeholders and influence and challenge constructivelyThe ability to convey complex information and ideas clearly to build understanding and supportStrategic and analytical thinking skillsUnderstanding of broader market context and potential impact on our businesses

Strategy Manager (9 Months)

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