Strategy Manager

NatWest Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial services firm is seeking a Strategy Manager to join its Chief Digital Information Office. The role focuses on managing strategy and delivering technology transformation aligned with customer outcomes. Candidates should have strong leadership skills, experience in business planning, and the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly. This position provides the opportunity to influence strategic change across a large and diverse organization.

Qualifications

• In-depth experience of the technology banking strategy and decision support.
• Knowledge of the complex changing technology landscape, including tools and processes.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Manage the strategy of your function, producing customer value iteratively.
• Contribute to the strategic technology development of the digital experience.
• Lead understanding and application of the overall strategy of the function.

Skills

Leadership capabilities

Research skills

Insight generation

Business planning

Stakeholder management

Strategic communication

Job description

Join us as a Strategy Manager

• Join our Chief Digital Information Office in Commercial & Institutional, where we harness technology innovation, business agility and one-bank collaboration to push the boundaries of what’s possible for our customers
• The wellbeing and growth of our people is fundamental to our shared success, which is why we’re passionate about cultivating an environment that fosters inclusion and champions potential
• Our journey will be challenging and complex, but truly transformative – so if you’re ready to stretch your capability, gain unique experience and shape the future banking experience for generations to come, this is your opportunity

What you'll do

You’ll be joining us in Business Management, Strategy & Transformation, where we drive commercial success through the optimisation of our portfolio and people to deliver value to our customers.

You’ll provide a vital contribution to the strategic technology development of the C&I customer digital experience, with the ultimate goal of producing excellent customer outcomes.

In this key role, you’ll manage the strategy of your function, supporting the delivery of its product backlog, producing customer value in a continuous, iterative fashion. You’ll be well positioned to use expert stakeholder management across the function and the wider bank to get input and agreement, while making sure that the strategy is cascaded appropriately.

You’ll also be:

• Facilitating and providing key inputs to the development of the franchises strategy, and delivering domain specific technology strategies to drive customer outcomes
• Helping to agitate decision making, including with executive and other senior technology and business stakeholders by developing and providing data driven insights
• Supporting the delivery of technology transformation programmes by developing and executing strategic communication campaigns that build awareness and understanding
• Leading the understanding and application of the overall strategy of the function, within and across domains
• Developing, documenting and agreeing the comprehensive technology strategic plan which pushes forward the domains to achieve the business vision
• Providing high quality executive briefings on external perspectives, including industry trends and competitor activity
• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior technology leaders, supporting with the articulation of plans, strategy and challenge

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with strong leadership capabilities, coupled with good research skills and insight generation. You’ll demonstrate prior experience in business planning, developing strategic recommendations and influencing all strategic change. Additionally, we’ll look to you to have a delivery track record working collegiately in and across a large diverse organisation, with the ability to establish partnerships across all parts of the business, ideally with a global footprint.

You’ll also need:

• In-depth experience of the technology banking strategy and decision support
• Knowledge of, and the ability to understand, the complex changing technology landscape, including tools and processes
• Good communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers, management level colleagues and senior governance forums
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills, including leading strategy supporting workstreams with technology and business partners