Senior Strategy Manager

**Company description** Location: Basingstoke (flexible working)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Solution bringers. Day makers. Extra milers. We are the AA. And we keep everyone’s show on the road. There for our members wherever and whenever they need us, we’re always ready for anything. That’s why, for over 100 years, we’ve continued to evolve andadapt. Today, as the nation’s number one motoring organisation, we offer a range of excellent products and services to millions of customers. As a Senior Strategy Manager, you’ll join our exciting journey to fulfil our future vision. We aim to support theUK’s 17m drivers and to facilitate their driving lives through data and innovation; to succeed with this, we require a step-change in pace and thinking. Join us as we transform and deliver on this ambitious vision.

With significant positive change, this is a great time to join The AA We have recently developed an ambitious and exciting plan to return the AA to growth, deliver the group’s 2026 vision and lay the foundation for sustained long-term growth. This planhighlights the many opportunities for the AA to grow and includes the development of a number of new, long-term opportunities. To succeed, it will require a step-change in pace and innovation, as well as investment in new capabilities and resource, so we arelooking for talent to help us deliver on our potential.

**This is the job** As Senior Strategy Manager you will work with the Strategy Director to identify and unlock opportunities for the AA focussing on resolving critical commercial and operational challenges as well as the longer-term strategic planning for the organisation.You will collaborate with the General Executive Committee and Senior Leadership Team in strategic decision making, ensuring cross functional strategic alignment.

**What will I be doing?**:

- Lead projects to develop winning strategies for the AA by collaborating with stakeholders across the business
- Build strong stakeholder relationships across the GEC and SLT (all business areas and functions) to support strategy development
- Identify and lead strategic research & analysis and problem solving of key business challenges & opportunities to support corporate decision-making
- Develop recommendations, solutions & action plans for commercial and operational opportunities based on strategic analysis to support the AA’s overarching strategy
- Develop business cases to support analyses and enable data-driven decision making, working alongside the relevant Finance and business teams
- Distil data and insight into clear and compelling written presentations and strategic papers
- Present recommendations and findings to stakeholders, e.g. GEC / SLT
- Partner with Internal and External Comms to communicate strategic narrative across the business and to external stakeholders
- In collaboration with GEC and the Transformation Management Office (TMO), support the business to create multi-year strategies and OKRs to consistently monitor business performance, proactively identify issues and risks and implement the required corrective/mitigatingplans
- Task management of Strategy Analysts
- Deputise for the Strategy Director as required

**What do I need?** Capability, Knowledge and Experience:

- Experience developing strategy, gained from a strategy consulting house, with experience in consumer sector (particularly B2C services, e.g. General Insurance) desirable
- Experienced in investigating, developing and appraising solutions to commercial opportunities with a high attention to detail
- Excellent research, analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to approach problem solving creatively using a broad range of information sources
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including writing compelling presentations and presenting these to senior stakeholders
- Strong ability to work at senior levels of the organisation to solve complex problems
- Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Strong organisational and planning skills, with proven ability to work independently

Education and Qualifications:

- Graduate Calibre (or equivalent of experience), Master’s level degree desirable but not essential

Personal Characteristics:

- Open, honest & collaborative style
- Strong growth mindset
- Relentless focus on accuracy, quality and attention to detail
- Flexible and able to balance multiple projects/priorities
- Intellectual curiosity and a passion to solve complex problems