Head of Strategy

Role Overview

• Strategic planning: Lead the development of the strategy for the UK business and aligning departmental strategies with the organisation’s overall goals.
• Translating the annual plans into clear objectives per team, you’ll drive the success of set strategies.
• Responsible for mapping out long-term vision, goals, and actionable initiatives.
• Drive impactful projects: Lead high-priority initiatives, overseeing cross-departmental projects, ensuring they are executed efficiently and align with strategic objectives.
• You own and run strategic business initiatives, allowing you to dive into various departments within the UK business.
• Commercial excellence: you ensure the UK business relies on a comprehensive and robust set of KPIs to fuel high-impact decision-making and clear commercial actions.
• Operational efficiency: you’ll streamline operations and improve processes to support our growth, efficiency and scalability.
• Organisation: you make sure the right people are speaking with each other by organising meetings and schedules and preparing agendas, briefings, and materials for leadership meetings, management reports and company updates.
• Data Analysis: Conduct research to identify industry trends, new business opportunities and supporting strategic decision making by analysing key data, presenting insights to leadership for actionable strategies.
• Leadership support: You are the right hand of, and reporting to the Managing Director, gaining daily insights into the responsibilities of running a business
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Working closely with the senior leadership team to ensure strategy is embedded across all departments.

Requirements

• Proven experience in management consulting, in-house strategy teams or a fast-paced high-growth scale up
• Strategic acumen: proven ability to develop, implement, and align organisational strategies
• Analytical Thinking: robust analytical and problem-solving skills, experienced in financial analysis and corporate strategy
• Strong project management skills: ability to manage multiple projects and the desire to bring structure to undefined procedures
• Exceptional communication: strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Track record of driving business insights, actions, and accountability across organisations
• Startup mindset & owner mentality
• You are a team player and collaborator at heart
• Master’s degree in business administration, management or a related field. An MBA or equivalent is a plus.
• Excel/G Sheet guru, PowerPoint/G Slide magician

Benefits

• Flexibility – Hybrid working with two days in the London office (fixed days
• Tuesdays and Thursdays), up to 30 days working abroad, and Summer Hours (June-August).
• Time Away – 30 days annual leave + bank holidays, 3 Wellbeing Days, paid sick leave, bereavement leave, volunteering day plus bank holiday swaps and more.
• Health & Wellbeing – Private medical insurance via Vitality, mental health support with our Employee Assistance Program, life assurance (4x salary), free Calm subscription, Specsavers eye test voucher, lunch on Tasty Tuesday and more.
• Financial & Career Growth – Competitive salary, pension match up to 4%, £200 learning & development budget, and Babbel subscription.
• Family & Lifestyle Perks – Enhanced maternity & paternity leave, Tonies gifts for major life events, and exclusive staff discounts.