Asst Dir-Strategist

Moody's Corporation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Moody's Corporation is seeking an accomplished senior professional to drive strategy formulation, customer analytics, and market intelligence for Banking. You will adapt analytical work across execution and cross‑team priorities as a senior individual contributor.

You will lead market analyses, CAM/TAM assessments, and investment cases while shaping strategic direction in collaboration with product, sales, and finance leadership.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in strategy, customer analytics, pricing, or business intelligence.
• Ability to operate independently as an individual contributor and turn loosely defined questions into clear analyses and recommendations.
• Strong grounding in customer and market analytics, spanning pricing strategy, execution monitoring, and forward-looking strategic work.
• Familiarity with the global banking sector and related domains such as Commercial Lending, Anti-Financial Crime, and Enterprise Risk.
• Curiosity about emerging market and technology trends and translating them into commercial opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy formulation, customer analytics, and market intelligence for Banking as a senior individual contributor.
• Drive customer and market analytics, including market assessment, CAM/TAM, investment cases, and related analyses.
• Oversee execution monitoring and governance for key strategic initiatives with cross‑team coordination.
• Support strategy formulation and business planning, integrating external trends and regional insights.
• Lead independent market research, including spotlights, trend analyses, and case studies.
• Build scalable analytical capabilities (frameworks, models, dashboards) to reduce dependency on any single contributor.
• Partner on venture and cross‑team initiatives as a flexible senior resource.

Skills

Strategy

Customer analytics

Pricing

Business intelligence

SQL

Python

Salesforce

Independent contributor

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or postgraduate degree

Tools

Power BI/Tableau/Alteryx

Job description

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are—with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moody’s is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, we’re advancing AI to move from insight to action—enabling intelligence that not only understands complexity but responds to it. We decode risk to unlock opportunity, helping our clients navigate uncertainty with clarity, speed, and confidence.

Skills and Competencies

• 5–8 years of experience in strategy, customer analytics, pricing, or business intelligence, ideally within the banking industry or a technology-enabled data/analytics environment
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently as an individual contributor — able to take a loosely defined business question and structure it into a clear analysis and recommendation
• Strong grounding in customer and market analytics, with the versatility to move fluidly across pricing strategy, execution monitoring, or forward-looking strategic work as priorities shift
• Working knowledge of the global commercial banking industry — Commercial Lending, Anti-Financial Crime, Enterprise Risk
• Genuine curiosity about emerging market and technology trends and how they translate into commercial opportunity. Quick learner.
• Comfortable presenting analysis and recommendations to cross-functional and senior stakeholders
• Proficiency in at least one BI or data-analytics tool (Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, or equivalent) is required; SQL or Python is a plus. MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and use of AI for automation are a minimum expectation.
• Working knowledge of CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce) for generating reports and building, maintaining, and monitoring dashboards is preferred

Education

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or postgraduate degree from a well-regarded program strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Own strategy formulation, customer analytics, and market intelligence for Banking, adapting across execution and cross-team priorities as a senior individual contributor
• Drive customer and market analytics, including market assessment, CAM/ TAM, investment cases and related strategic analysis as needed
• Own execution monitoring and process governance for key strategic initiatives, including review cadences and coordination with central strategy and product/domain strategy teams, where required
• Support strategy formulation and business planning, bringing external trends, emerging technology perspectives, and regional ground-truth insights into the team's thinking
• Lead independent market research — spotlights, trend analysis, and case studies — to support broader strategic decisions
• Build scalable, reusable analytical capability (frameworks, models, dashboards) that reduces dependency on any single contributor
• Partner on venture and cross-team initiatives as a flexible senior resource

About the team

The Banking Commercial Strategy team drives strategic growth across Moody's Banking solutions through deep customer and market analytics. We deliver data-driven insights that inform market led strategy — helping shape Moody's long-term vision for the Banking business
Our work sits at the center of Moody's efforts to deliver differentiated value to commercial banking clients. By joining us, you will contribute to impactful initiatives spanning strategy formulation, market intelligence, pricing, and customer analytics — while collaborating closely with product, sales, finance, senior leadership, and product/domain and central strategy teams

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.
Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.