Job Description

Commercial Manager (Annual Insurance)
Department: Commercial & Partnerships
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Cardiff
Description
Hybrid: 2 days per week in-office
About us
In 2002, we became the first insurance comparison site. Our purpose? To make the process of sorting your insurance, utilities, or personal finances as easy as possible. We're part of RVU, a group of online brands that include Uswitch, Tempcover, and money.co.uk. As a group, we use our shared knowledge to empower people and help them make decisions confidently across a range of household services.
About the Role
We've got a unique opportunity for a Commercial Manager to join us, influencing RVU's ambitious growth plans for annual insurances beyond our core product lines. Building on significant success over the last two years, you'll join a high-performing team who are dedicated to delivering innovative customer experiences and strong performance against targets.
You'll be a key player within the cross-functional team, ensuring we continue to develop and deliver on a critical element of our broader business strategy. You'll also have regular interaction with key stakeholders across our Product, Marketing, and Commercial teams, as well as managing relationships with third-party partners.
What you'll be doing:
1. Implementing Strategic Plans

• You'll proactively implement the product strategy, coordinating and collaborating on initiatives across Marketing, Product, and Commercial teams, as well as third-party relationships.

• We'll look to you to ensure clear ownership of operational initiatives within the cross-functional team and manage effective coordination and implementation.

• You'll collaborate with key stakeholders to identify, quantify, and implement growth opportunities.

2. P&L Management & Forecasting

• You'll contribute to high-quality weekly trading meetings, ensuring you/colleagues have a deep understanding of your area and are constantly challenging the business to improve.

• You'll be aiming to exceed business performance targets (as measured in financial results, strategic KPIs, and customer outcomes) that achieve our business strategy.

• You'll be the 'go-to person' for understanding and communicating results, impacts, variances, analysis, and business cases.

• You'll own and manage budgeting and forecasting alongside the Finance team, including setting detailed assumption-based budgets and delivering regular, rational forecast updates ("pacing").

3. Leading Cross-Functional Execution

• You'll strike the right balance between enabling teams to realise the strategy while troubleshooting

• You'll take ownership of the execution of your strategy: identifying problems, raising and mitigating risks, and finding solutions across people, process, and technology.

• You'll limit work in progress for the organisation by prioritising the most impactful initiatives.

• You'll evangelise and educate your colleagues and stakeholders on the strategy.

• You'll ensure that your Product, Marketing, and Commercial colleagues' objectives reflect your strategic and commercial goals.

What we're looking for

• Financial Acumen & P&L Management: Proven ability to manage product P&Ls against agreed budgets.

• Commercial Analysis: Expertise in describing and quantifying impacts of market, competitor, and product changes on trading performance.

• Structure & Organisation: Ability to bring energy, organisation, and structure to complex, cross-functional operational and strategic plans.

• Stakeholder Communication: Outstanding communication skills for tailoring messages and clearly articulating strategic rationale to internal and external stakeholders.

• Strategic Prioritisation: Strong ability to act as a strategy advocate with a clear view on the relative value of different pieces of work to ensure effective prioritisation.

• Insight Generation: A strong appetite for finding novel insights by applying critical thinking and deep analysis across available data assets.

• Execution Focus: A bias to action and the ability to efficiently 'get stuff done' to drive measurable results.

Our commitment to you:
At RVU, we are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this it's essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.
What we offer
We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to "work from anywhere"
• Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
• A one-off 300 "Work from Home" budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days "My Time" per year
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover , dental plans and employee assistance programme
• Free gym access
• Employee discounts programme
• A healthy learning and training budget to support your development
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected

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