Senior Strategy Manager

Job reference 332206

Senior Strategy Manager

Competitive salary, £5,500 Car allowance, plus full family Healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential with 27.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, increasing with years served and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates

Permanent, Full time

This is a hyrbid role based out of Royal Mail Farringdon 3 days per week.

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for shaping the future of a major UK business? We're looking for a Senior Strategy Manager to join Royal Mail's central strategy team. This high-impact role will help define and drive the long-term strategic direction of Royal Mail and Parcelforce, working closely with senior leaders across the organisation.

About the Role

Reporting to the Head of Strategy Development, you'll lead the development of long-term strategic plans, initiate cross-functional workstreams, and produce high-quality materials for executive decision-making. You'll play a key role in aligning functional strategies and supporting transformation across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead development of Royal Mail's 5–10 year strategic agenda
• Scope and launch strategic workstreams across all functions
• Translate functional strategies into a coherent business strategy
• Provide structured recommendations to the CEO and Executive Board
• Build alignment and consistency across the organisation
• Mentor junior team members and support their development

About You

You're a highly analytical and collaborative leader with experience in strategy consulting or industry. You thrive in complex environments and bring a data-driven approach to solving strategic challenges.

What You'll Bring:

• Experience of consulting and/or industry experience (Consultancy preferred)
• Strong strategic, financial, and commercial acumen
• Experience leading high-value strategic projects and influencing senior stakeholders
• Excellent modelling, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Degree in Business, Economics, Finance or similar; MBA desirable
• Passion for logistics and transformation (experience desirable)

Extra Benefits

• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.
• Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face or virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we'll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.

We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we'd love to hear from you.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

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Closing Date: 26th October. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.