Trading Executive - Green Flag

Direct Line Group Careers; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider is seeking a Trading Executive to join their Green Flag team in Leeds. The role involves managing P&L to drive profitable business growth, collaborating with stakeholders, and using analytical skills to improve trading performance. Applicants should possess strong commercial acumen and experience in product management. The company offers a hybrid work model and a range of benefits to support work-life balance.

Benefits

9% employer contributed pension

50% off home, motor and pet insurance

Health and Dental insurance options

Up to 10% AIP Bonus

EV car scheme

Generous holidays

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Proven ability to identify opportunities and deliver business change.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret complex data sets.
• Experience in managing P&L and understanding financial drivers.

Responsibilities

• Support the Trading mission to grow business and improve performance.
• Manage P&L for trading activities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive the trading agenda.

Skills

Commercial acumen

P&L management

Product management

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Creativity

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Green Flag team as a Trading Executive. Reporting to our Head of Trading, you'll help us assist the delivery of new business, profitably retain our valuable customers and deliver outstanding customer experiences. You’ll have an integral role, alongside the wider team, in ensuring we deliver against our Business Plan.

What you'll be doing

• Support the Trading mission to profitably grow our business and improve our trading performance through continuous insight and action.
• Manage the Profit and Loss (P&L) for trading activities, ensuring all actions contribute positively to the company's financial health and strategic goals
• Work with Marketing, Pricing, Finance, Product, Operations, and other key stakeholders to drive the trading agenda through effective collaboration
• Understand performance and articulate meaningful headlines with stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.
• Monitor performance vs. expectations (both internal, market metrics, and insights) to inform and drive decision making, spotting and generating risks and opportunity trends that can deliver business value.
• Lead the reporting on product KPIs and support analysis of trading performance across new business, renewals, fleet, and linked channels.
• Create value assessments to support prioritisation and sizing of opportunities, proposing and executing actions to generate business value, considering impacts throughout the P&L and other business processes.
• Support trading activities by working effectively with key stakeholders to develop and maximize all stages in the value chain, aligning pricing, distribution, product, and marketing.
• Build customer advocacy and loyalty through a clear understanding of target customers, aligned product & price propositions.

Our hybrid model offers a 'best of both worlds' approach. When you'll be in the office depends on your role and team, but colleagues spend at least 50% of their time in the office

What you'll need

• Strong commercial acumen with a proven ability to identify opportunities and deliver business change.
• Experience managing P&L and understanding the financial drivers that impact performance.
• Product management experience, with the ability to align propositions to customer needs and market trends.
• Excellent collaborator and communicator, able to influence and drive positive change through stakeholder engagement.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets and translate insights into actionable outcomes.
• Curious, creative, and proactive in identifying improvements and adapting to a dynamic environment.

Closing Date

Monday 19th January

Benefits

We recognise we wouldn't be where we are today without our colleagues, that's why we offer excellent benefits designed to suit your lifestyle:

• 9% employer contributed pension
• 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus Green Flag breakdown cover
• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance
• Up to 10% AIP Bonus
• EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.
• Generous holidays
• Buy as you earn share scheme
• Employee discounts and cashback
• Plus, many more

We want everyone to get the most out of their time at DLG. Which is why we’ve looked beyond the financial rewards and created an offer that takes your whole life into account. Supporting our people to work at their best – whatever that looks like — and offering real choice, flexibility, and a greater work-life balance that means our people have time to focus on the things that matter most to them. Our benefits are about more than just the money you earn. They’re about recognising who you are and the life you live.

Be yourself

Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we think diversity of background and thinking is a big strength in our people. We're delighted to feature as one of the UK's Top 50 Inclusive Employers and are committed to making our business an inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves and succeed in their careers.

We know you're more than a CV, and the things that make you, you, are what bring potential to our business. We recognise and embrace people that work in different ways so if you need any adjustments to our recruitment process, please speak to the recruitment team who will be happy to support you.