Head of Pricing

**Excited to grow your career?**

**Our mission is to 'help people save and invest with confidence'. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at HL.**

**About the role**

As Head of Pricing, you will be setting and delivering the pricing strategy at Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) to enable the business to deliver better client and business outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced expert in retail pricing toset and implement the pricing vision at HL, using your commercial knowledge and understanding of client expectations to drive the delivery of the pricing roadmap and establish the direction of our Product team.

**What you'll be doing**
- Leading the development of the pricing strategy at HL
- Establishing and communicating the pricing vision for the business and delivering the pricing roadmap
- Acting as the business owner for Product, working closely with Product Owners across the business
- Ensuring the delivery of objectives and key results of the Product team
- Owning client and business outcomes relating to pricing, including adherence to regulation and standards and policies of the product, including Consumer Duty, Conduct, and Vulnerable Clients
- Conducting ongoing competitor analysis, keeping abreast of market trends
- Accountability for the risk and control environment for pricing
- Ensuring the Product team direction is understood and agreed by ExCo
- Managing relationships with key partners and third parties
- Bringing your industry expertise to mentor and share knowledge across the business

**About you**

To succeed as Head of Pricing at HL you will have:

- Experience in leading the development and ongoing management of an organisation-wide pricing strategy, with specific expertise in retail pricing
- A commercial mindset, in tune with cost and revenue for financial products
- Good understanding of client needs and expectations, with knowledge of what clients are willing to pay for products
- Exceptional communication skills, comfortable dealing with colleagues at all levels across the business
- An economics background - you'll be an industry expert in retail pricing, able to advise and inform the business
- In-depth knowledge of both pricing and pricing models, both within Financial Services and other industries' regulations and competitor pricing models
- Experience of working with senior stakeholders, including board members, industry bodies and regulators
- Experience of building and delivering evidence and data-backed strategies to commercial success
- Experience of leading high performing teams in an agile environment, delivering change at pace using metric and hypothesis driven development

**Interview process**

The interview process will include two stages, including a presentation and psychometric assessment.

**Working Schedule**

**Why us?**

Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

**What's on offer?**
- Discretionary annual bonus & annual pay review
- 25* days holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure time
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year
- Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
- Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
- Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HL's future
- Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
- Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare
- Gympass - gym memberships and wellbeing apps available
- Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities
- An inhouse barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks
- Join HL's sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)
- LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers
- up to 30 days depending on role level & increasing with length of service
- This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information._