Acquisition Strategy and Planning Manager, Chase UK

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking an Acquisition Strategy and Planning Manager to shape and execute acquisition strategies that align with organizational objectives. The role involves collaborating with various teams to optimize investment and performance while analyzing and communicating strategies across the organization.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical capabilities to produce comprehensive analysis.
• Experience supporting acquisition strategy in consumer-focused organizations.
• Excellent written communication skills for business reports.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of annual acquisition strategy and business plans.
• Provide detailed acquisition reports focusing on performance.
• Collaborate with teams to optimize performance across all acquisition channels.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Entrepreneurial mindset

Collaboration

Organizational skills

Education

Relevant experience in acquisition strategy

Experience in retail banking or digital-first organizations

Tools

Analytics tools

Marketing platforms

Job description

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Job Description

Join us as an Acquisition Strategy and Planning Manager, where you'll contribute to shaping and executing acquisition strategies that align with our bank's objectives. Collaborate with various teams to drive initiatives and optimize investment.

As an Acquisition Strategy and Planning Manager in the Chase UK team, you will support the evaluation, development, and implementation of acquisition strategies and plans. Your role involves analyzing and communicating these strategies and their results across the organization. Work closely with the Chase UK leadership team to ensure acquisition initiatives and investments align with the bank's strategy and objectives, delivering against performance goals.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead development of the annual acquisition strategy and accompanying business plans, working with teams across marketing, product, commercial, strategy, and finance.
• Provide detailed acquisition reports and analyses to business stakeholders, focusing on acquisition performance and strategic direction.
• Collaborate with channel leads to support the implementation of plans and optimize performance.
• Work with acquisition teams, data analysts, and external agencies to evaluate the effectiveness of acquisition efforts and convey these insights to key stakeholders.
• Partner with strategy and research teams to deliver consumer, market, and competitor insights that enhance overall acquisition efficiency and effectiveness.
• Engage with research teams to gain a comprehensive understanding of target audiences, segmentation, and identify customer needs to optimize performance and targeting.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Solid understanding of acquisition strategy and performance metrics within a consumer-focused organization.
• Demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset by generating innovative ideas and proactively testing new strategies to drive acquisition growth and enhance overall performance.
• Data-driven with strong analytical capabilities, including the ability to produce comprehensive analysis documents.
• Excellent written communication skills, capable of producing clear and high-quality business reports and documents.
• Proficient in collaboration and relationship-building across a large matrix organization.
• Ability to engage effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Highly organized with the ability to implement and adhere to controls and processes.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience in supporting acquisition strategy or performance for a consumer-facing digital organization.
• Familiarity with marketing platforms and acquisition channels.
• Proficiency in analytics tools and measurement capabilities.
• Understanding of attribution and data modeling such as Media Mix Modeling.
• Demonstrated success in contributing to acquisition initiatives that align with strategic business goals.
• Relevant experience in a similar role, ideally within retail banking/fin-tech or digital-first organizations. Experience in a regulated industry is helpful.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Marketing & Communications teams shape the firm's brand and protect and grow the firm's excellent reputation across the world. They deepen relationships with customers through shared passions with a best in class portfolio of partnerships globally. Through the use of data and analytics, they create and deliver marketing campaigns or servicing messages through our websites, mobile apps, and paid media channels based on what is best for the customer.