Dir-Sr Strategist (Insurance)

Moody; Greater London; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Moody's Senior Strategist for Insurance is responsible for identifying growth opportunities across sub-segments and workflows, shaping market strategy, and analyzing demand, competition, and regulatory trends. You will translate insights into actionable business cases and collaborate with product, Go-to-Market, sales and marketing to drive commercial execution.

Required is extensive strategy experience in Insurance (P&C), an undergraduate business degree, and strong leadership capabilities.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in strategy, product, marketing, or market research within Insurance (P&C) sector.
• Strong understanding of market dynamics, customer personas, and workflows in Insurance (P&C).
• Proven ability to translate market insights into actionable business strategies.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, and communication with senior stakeholders.
• Experience working in Agile environments and managing multiple strategic initiatives.
• Proficiency in AI concepts and using AI tools to streamline workflows and address AI risks.

Responsibilities

• Identify and assess future growth opportunities across Insurance sub-segments and workflows.
• Analyze demand, competition, industry and regulatory trends, and emergent tech impacting customers' businesses.
• Develop business cases with market size, target customers, segmentation, ARR projections, costs, and viability.
• Translate vision into executable scenarios across growth levers, lines of business, and markets.
• Evaluate strategic partnerships and investments, including potential mergers and acquisitions.
• Maintain understanding of Moody's solutions and value propositions.
• Collaborate with product, GTM, sales, and marketing to support commercial execution.
• Contribute to sales and marketing materials and thought leadership content.

Skills

Strategy in Insurance

Market dynamics

Translate insights to strategy

Influence senior stakeholders

Agile experience

AI concepts and tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in business

MBA or graduate degree preferred

Job description

Let's begin! Dir-Sr Strategist (Insurance) (14969)

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.

We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity.

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.