Direct Line Group

Trading Manager

Direct Line Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • Strong commercial acumen with a proven ability to identify opportunities and deliver business change.
  • Experience managing P&L and understanding the financial drivers that impact performance.
  • Product management experience, with the ability to align propositions to customer needs and market trends.
  • Excellent collaborator and communicator, able to influence and drive positive change through stakeholder engagement.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets and translate insights into actionable outcomes.
  • Curious, creative, and proactive in identifying improvements and adapting to a dynamic environment.
Benefits
  • 9% employer contributed pension
  • 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus Green Flag breakdown cover
  • Additional optional Health and Dental insurance
  • Up to 10% AIP Bonus
  • EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.
  • Generous holidays
  • Buy as you earn share scheme
  • Employee discounts and cashback
  • Plus, many more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
P&L managementproduct managementdata analysisperformance monitoringKPI reportingvalue assessmentfinancial analysismarket analysisrisk identificationopportunity trend analysis
Soft Skills
commercial acumencollaborationcommunicationstakeholder engagementanalytical thinkinginfluencingcreativityproactivityadaptabilitycustomer advocacy