Trading Executive

17 hours ago

London, United Kingdom Direct Line Insurance Group Full time
Trading Executive - FTC (12 months)

London/Leeds – Hybrid

12 months FTC

At Direct Line Group, insurance is just the start. Combining decades of industry experience with talented people in every field from data, technology, customer care and auto repair, to HR, finance, and procurement, we’re a customer-obsessed market powerhouse. And we all work together to be brilliant for customers, every single day.

We're thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity to join us as a Trading Executive, within the Rescue Business on a FTC basis. You'll report to our Head of Trading. In this capacity, 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.

What you'll need

  • Experienced in trading and commercially minded.
  • Excellent collaborator and communicator, with the ability to influence and drive positive change through stakeholder management.
  • Curious and creative individual.
  • Strong data analyst who can understand and manipulate data sets to draw conclusions.
  • Commercially aware with experience in identifying and delivering business change.
  • Proactive and adaptable in a dynamic work environment.

Ways of Working

Our hybrid model way of working offers a 'best of both worlds' approach combining the best parts of home and office-working, offering flexibility for everyone. When you'll be in the office depends on your role, but most colleagues are in 2 days a week, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.

Benefits

We wouldn’t be where we are today without our people and the wide variety of perspectives and life experiences they bring. That’s why we offer excellent benefits to suit your lifestyle and a flexible working model combining the best parts of home and office-working, varying with the nature of your role. Our core benefits include:

  • 9% employer contributed pension.
  • 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover.
  • Additional optional Health and Dental insurance.
  • Up to 10% bonus.
  • EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.
  • 25 days annual leave, increasing each year up to a maximum of 28.
  • Buy as you earn share scheme.
  • Employee discounts and cashback.
  • Plus many more

Being yourself

Difference makes us who we are. We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their whole selves to work – that’s why we champion diverse voices, build workplaces that work for people, and invest in the things that matter.

About Us

Here at DLG we believe that there’s no one else like you. No one with the exact same mix of strengths, quirks, skills, and thoughts. We all work together to be brilliant for our customers every day. We're proud of who we are, of what we do, and what every single one of us brings to the team.

Like what you see? When we all come together, we can achieve great things. The question is, are you one of a kind too?

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