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Title and Summary
Director, Business Administration
Director – Strategy & Planning
Role Purpose
The Director – Strategy & Planning supports the President of UK&I and the Division Leadership Team by translating strategy into clear priorities, strengthening execution discipline and enabling effective decision-making across the division. The role acts as a trusted advisor, connector and facilitator, ensuring senior leadership time is focused on the highest-value opportunities, risks and outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Alignment and Execution
• Partner with the President and Division Leadership Team to translate strategic priorities into clear plans, actions and measurable outcomes.
• Drive high-priority strategic initiatives and cross-functional projects from conception to delivery, ensuring accountability, timely execution and visible impact.
• Monitor relevant market developments, identifying emerging risks, opportunities and implications for the division.
Leadership Team Operating Rhythm
• Own and continuously improve the Division Leadership Team’s operating cadence, ensuring meetings are purposeful, action-oriented and tied to business priorities.
• Lead the planning, design and facilitation of Leadership Team meetings, annual planning processes and strategy reviews.
• Track decisions, actions and follow-through to strengthen execution discipline and leadership alignment.
Executive Reporting, Briefings and Communications
• Own executive-level reporting, business updates, scorecards and leadership communications for internal and external audiences.
• Prepare briefing materials, talking points, meeting objectives and follow-up actions for executive client meetings, strategic customer engagements, industry events and speaking opportunities.
• Develop leadership communication strategies that increase transparency, connectivity and employee understanding of organisational priorities.
Data Strategy
• Ensure the division has a clear data strategy that equips the Division Leadership Team and broader teams with the data, analytics and insights needed to monitor market trends, understand customer performance and inform strategic decision-making.
• Drive alignment on divisional data priorities, working across relevant teams to strengthen the quality, accessibility and effective use of data and insights.
Commercial Strategy and Pricing
• Establish and oversee an effective market-level process for managing pricing proposals, working with Account Teams, Product Teams and Customer Economics to ensure proposals are robust, coordinated and progressed efficiently.
• Ensure the customer and Division P&L impacts of pricing proposals are clearly understood and that proposals are aligned with applicable regulatory requirements.
• Drive the UK&I commercial strategy, identifying and enabling opportunities to generate material, sustainable incremental revenue for the division.
People Leadership
• Provide people leadership for the Pricing & Commercial Strategy Manager and Data Strategy & Analytics Manager, setting clear direction, expectations and priorities.
• Support team effectiveness and development by coaching individuals, strengthening capability and creating clarity on ownership, deliverables and ways of working.
• Ensure the work of your direct reports is well connected to divisional priorities, leadership decision-making and the broader UK&I strategic agenda.
Culture and Ways of Working
• Foster a culture of collaboration,…