Dir-Sr Strategist (Insurance)

Moody's Investors Service; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Moody's Investors Service is seeking a senior strategist for the Insurance Commercial Strategy team. The role focuses on shaping market strategy across sub-segments and workflows, leveraging market intelligence, AI-enabled insights, and cross-functional collaboration with product, GTM, sales, and marketing teams.

You will assess growth opportunities, monitor trends, and build data-driven business cases to enable sustainable growth in Moody's Analytics' Insurance Business Unit.

Qualifications

• Experience translating market insights into actionable business strategies.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving with attention to detail.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and collaborate across functions.

Responsibilities

• Identify growth opportunities across Insurance customer sub-segments and workflows.
• Analyze demand, competitive landscape, industry trends, and emerging technologies affecting customers.
• Develop business cases including market size, segmentation, ARR projections, and cost estimates.
• Translate vision into execution scenarios across growth levers, lines of business, and markets.
• Evaluate strategic partners and investment opportunities, including M&A.
• Maintain understanding of Moody's solutions and value propositions.
• Collaborate with product, GTM, sales, and marketing to align initiatives and support commercial execution.
• Contribute to sales/marketing materials and thought leadership content.

Skills

Strategy

Product/Marketing/Market research

Market dynamics & personas

Stakeholder influence

Agile environments

AI concepts & tools

Education

Undergraduate degree in business

MBA or related graduate degree

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

• Extensive experience in strategy, product, marketing, or market research within the Insurance sector, in particular Property and Casualty
• Good understanding of market dynamics, customer personas, and workflows in the Insurance sector, in particular Property and Casualty
• Proven ability to translate market insights into actionable business strategies
• Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving and communication skills, with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Experience working in Agile and fast-paced environments and managing multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously
• Demonstrated proficiency in artificial intelligence concepts, with hands‑on experience using AI tools to streamline workflows and enhance operational efficiency. Proven ability to implement AI‑powered solutions to solve business challenges. Demonstrates a growing awareness of AI risk management and a commitment to responsible and ethical AI use

Education

• Undergraduate degree in a business‑related field required
• MBA or other relevant graduate degree preferred

Responsibilities

This role supports the identification and assessment of future growth opportunities across Insurance customer sub-segments and workflows to shape market strategy.

• Analyze and monitor demand, competitive landscape, and industry and regulatory trends, as well as emerging technologies impacting customers' businesses
• Identify and assess growth opportunities across customer sub-segments and workflows
• Drive the development of business cases including estimation of addressable market, target customer and segmentation, ARR projections, cost estimations, and financial viability assessments through data‑driven analyses
• Translate vision into execution scenarios across identified growth levers, lines of business, and markets
• Actively participate in identifying and evaluating strategic partner and investment opportunities, including organic investment and mergers and acquisitions
• Maintain a strong understanding of Moody's solutions and their value propositions
• Collaborate with product, go‑to‑market enablement, sales, and marketing teams to align initiatives and support commercial execution
• Contribute to sales and marketing materials and thought leadership content

About the Team

The Insurance Commercial Strategy team partners with Strategic Planning, Product, Go‑to‑Market, Marketing, and Sales to drive objective, fact‑based decision making, optimize portfolio performance, and support sustainable growth for Moody's Analytics' Insurance Business Unit. The team operates at the intersection of strategy and execution, leveraging data, market intelligence, and AI‑enabled insights to identify and capture growth opportunities across the global insurance landscape. By joining this team, you will contribute to high‑impact work that shapes how Moody's serves the insurance market — helping clients navigate risk and uncertainty with greater clarity and confidence.

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.

For more information on the Securities Trading Program, please refer to the Securities Trading Policy on Moody’s Compliance Expo page.

Please note: STP categories are assigned by the hiring teams and are subject to change over the course of an employee’s tenure with Moody’s.