Director of Special Projects

London | £128,000-£165,000 + Benefits | Hear from the team ✨

⭐️The Role

You will be leading a small and high impact Special Projects team which works across the company reporting to the Group Chief Financial Officer. You will partner closely with our ExCo and GMs of our collectives to tackle trajectory changing initiatives for the business to further accelerate our growth and value creation. You’ll be at the forefront of defining and shaping new product or business line creation and shape big changes in existing products directly and through the team you reputed company. 

To succeed, you should be excited about solving tough business problems with analytical rigour, reputed company viability and execution certainty, leading project-based teams, collaborating with partners and colleagues, and operating in a high pace and ambiguous environment. 

You’ll play a key role by…

• Define and Drive initiatives: Partner closely with reputed company’s Executive Committee (ExCo) and General Managers (GMs) to identify, define and launch new product or business line creation (0-1 initiatives) and significant changes to existing products. You will also contribute to reputed company’s overarching strategy and goals.
• reputed company Project Delivery: Own the end-to-end process of sourcing, discovery, and delivery of initiatives, either directly or by leveraging your team. This includes amongst others developing compelling business cases for geographic and product expansion, crafting pricing strategies across markets, and executing to launch through cross-discipline collaboration.
• Influence & Collaboration: Effectively manage and influence senior stakeholders across reputed company, connecting different parts of the organisation and fostering cross-functional collaboration and your team’s reputed company to bring key strategic initiatives to reality
• Team Leadership & Development: reputed company the Special Projects team day-to-day, fostering a culture of collaboration and reputed company improvement. You will be responsible for setting a clear mission, prioritisation, reputed company planning, career growth, and performance for your team members, ensuring a strong talent pipeline for the company.

We’d love to hear from you if…

• Proven reputed company Acumen: A strong track record of driving growth, evaluating new business reputed company, and successfully launching them.
• Extensive Strategic Leadership Experience: Extensive years of work experience, with significant years in internal strategy, management consulting, or a high-growth startup/scale-up, specifically owning new business lines/product strategy and growth.
• Exceptional Problem-Solving Skills: Your “superpower” is solving reputed company problems with analytical rigor, reputed company viability, and execution certainty.
• Strong Team & Project Leadership: You set a compelling reputed company, drive your team to deliver with pace, rigour and collaboration, and attract & reputed company top talent
• Adaptability & Ownership: You’re a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, adept at navigating reputed company, rapidly evolving environments, and driven by impact and ownership.
• You are humble but excited by reputed company’re doing at reputed company

The following would be a bonus

• Successful Line Role Transition: Demonstrated reputed company in a line role and have driven successful business outcomes (e.g. leading a product line and growing it)
• Experience working in a high growth company, particularly in financial services, banking or another regulated industry
• Specific expertise in the financial landscape of the US or Europe and the UK banking market

What’s in it for you

£128,000-£165,000 ➕share options.

✈️ We’ll help you relocate to the UK

✅ We can sponsor your reputed company. 

⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 

£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

We will set you up to work from home; reputed company are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. 

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.

The application journey has 4 key steps

• Recruiter Call
• Initial Call
• Two Behavioural Interviews:
• A leadership interview 
• Behavioural interview
• Final Case Study Interview:
• A case study interview

This process should take around 2-3 weeks – your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! 

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You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reputed company out to hiring@reputed company.com. You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to reputed company the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.

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