Strategic Assistant - Admiral Pioneer

About Admiral Pioneer 

Admiral Pioneer is a new entity within Admiral Group with the objective of seeding, launching and scaling new businesses in areas of increasing societal importance. We are focussing on three significant domains:

• Mobility
• Future of Work
• Live to 101

These domains are long term growth areas for Admiral. We anchor around meeting customer needs and are focused on experimenting and proving new products, business models and partnerships through a discovery-driven approach.

We aren’t an incubator, we are building a dynamic and energizing environment where we will provide all the excitement and freedom of a start-up, with the support and stability of an established organization. We want to recruit passionate business builders who look at the world and see huge opportunities to change it.

About the role

We are looking for a business leader of the future. Working with the Pioneer leadership team, you will play a large role in defining our strategy, operating model and culture. You will organise our strategic agenda and take an active engagement in the businesses we create, helping them launch and navigate their growth path. This will involve working very closely with the CEO of Admiral Pioneer and her leadership team to prepare and run some of our key forums and meetings (Strategic Planning, Growth Board, Resource Planning). You will work with our Business and Domain leaders to help develop our understanding and exploration of our target domains and the business models and capabilities. Although strategic in nature we are also looking for execution in and through our businesses.

About you

You probably want to build a business in the future and can understand markets, and their opportunities. You will be high energy and articulate and able to mix it up 1:1 and within a wider group

Knowledge and abilities

• Strong strategic thinker, able to quickly frame complex concepts and use this to drive a debate
• A strong desire to positively impact or make a market not copy what exists today
• Comfortable combining customer-first thinking highly commercial and data driven insight approaches
• Fantastic communication and interpersonal skills with diverse audiences and a desire to work within a fast-paced, dynamic team environment
• A hands-on approach and desire to work strategically and operationally to shape and add value across our business

Experience

• Likely to have consulting (Big 4) experience
• Ideally worked in or around start-up and scale up organisations
• Have worked in or with a variety of businesses across several industries
• Background in strategy (org design, market analysis, proposition development)
• Experience of customer-centric design and building compelling products and propositions
• Experience of managing multiple stakeholders and potentially competing agendas
• Understanding of Go -To- Market and business development/ partnership development

Additional Information

The role will report into the CEO of Admiral Pioneer.

We would expect the successful candidate to migrate from this role into a Business Builder within 24 months.

Due to Covid, the whole Admiral Pioneer team is working remotely. We will provide you with everything you need to work comfortably from home.

We expect you to be working remotely for the foreseeable future, however, once it is safe to return to the office, we will have days when the whole team comes together to collaborate. You can decide if you want to come to the office between 2-5 days per week.

Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package. Do not hesitate to contact the Recruitment Officer looking after this position if you would like to discuss this further.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons why we're consistently voted one of the Sunday Times’ Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

About Admiral

Admiral Group is a leading FTSE100 Financial Services company with a presence in eight countries.

The company was set up in 1993 as a car insurance specialist, but since then the Group has expanded in other countries and other insurance verticals such as household and travel insurance, in loans, price comparison platforms, and has developed innovative products.

The Group has 7 million customers worldwide and employs over 11,000 people across its operations. Admiral is a growth story with an enviable track record of strong financial performances, ROE consistently over 50%, a turnover of £3.5 bn, and a profit before tax of £520 m in 2019. Admiral’s philosophy is that ‘people who like what they do, do it better’ and Admiral is proud to offer an open culture where achievement is rewarded and recognised and where coming to work is exciting every day. In 2019, Admiral received a special award from ‘Best Companies to Work For’ as the only company to feature within their rankings since they began 20 years ago: a true testament to the Group’s culture.

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