Domestic & General
Commercial Director - Growth Markets
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Commercial Director
Location: Flexible on location in the EU with visits to our EU offices as and when required.
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Competitive
We’re looking for an exceptional Commercial Director to join our Growth Markets team at Domestic & General.
This is a newly created, high-impact role reporting directly to the President of Growth Markets, where you will lead the commercial agenda—shaping and delivering strategy across growth, pricing, market focus, and customer approach to drive sustainable revenue and margin performance.
You will translate business strategy into clear, actionable commercial priorities, aligning teams, investment, and decision-making behind the initiatives that unlock profitable growth while strengthening commercial discipline, across the organisation.
Bringing both strategic insight and operational rigour, they will enable high-quality decision-making across growth, pricing, proposition development, and performance management—ensuring we deliver long-term value in a competitive market.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Owning and shaping the commercial agenda for our Growth Markets, ensuring growth priorities are aligned to strategy and market opportunity.
- Setting direction across pricing, proposition, and go-to-market activity to deliver sustainable revenue and margin growth.
- Identifying and unlocking growth opportunities across segments, propositions, and commercial levers to strengthen competitive performance.
- Translating strategy into clear commercial priorities, plans, and performance expectations across the market.
- Balancing growth ambition with commercial discipline, making informed trade-offs across revenue, margin, and customer outcomes.
- Aligning teams around shared commercial objectives, ensuring clarity, focus, and accountability across functions.
- Monitoring performance and using insight, data, and market trends to continuously refine priorities and approach.
- Sponsoring key commercial initiatives and investments, ensuring focus on the highest-impact opportunities.
- Leading in-period trading activity, translating strategy into decisive actions and market responses across channels.
- Partnering closely with Commercial Finance to ensure robust, insight-led decision-making across pricing, propositions, and investment.
- Building strong, effective relationships across the business to drive alignment and execution of commercial priorities.
- Representing the commercial agenda in senior forums, providing clear recommendations and performance insight.
- Driving consistency in how commercial priorities are communicated, delivered, and tracked across the market.
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What You’ll Bring
- Significant experience in commercial leadership within EU based operations, with deep expertise across growth strategy, pricing, proposition development, go-to-market and performance management.
- A strong understanding of how commercial decisions translate into revenue, margin, and customer outcomes.
- Proven experience operating across multiple functions, with the ability to influence and align senior stakeholders in complex, matrixed environments.
- Sound commercial, operational, and customer judgement, with the ability to balance growth ambition, market opportunity, and financial discipline.
- Strong analytical capability, able to use data, insight, and market trends to shape decisions and drive performance.
- The ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, bringing clarity, focus, and direction.
We offer lots of great benefits! Some of which include:
- Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus
- 25 days annual leave plus bank/public holidays, as well as an annual option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave
- Training opportunities as well as clearly defined career progression
- Health cash plan – employer funded cover to enable you to claim money back on essential healthcare costs, including dental, optical, physiotherapy and many more. Cover also includes unlimited access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
- Attractive company pension scheme
- Life assurance – employer funded cover of 4x basic salary
- Dedicated online benefit portal offering access to saving and lending facilities, financial wellbeing and support services:
- Salary Finance – access to savings and borrowing through payroll
- Car Leasing – access to a carbon neutral salary sacrifice car leasing scheme, with an all-inclusive monthly cost covering all charge, taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance on a range of brand-new vehicles
- Travel Loans – interest free loans to help spread the cost of annual travel tickets
- Cycle to Work – tax efficient bike and cycling equipment worth up to £1,000
- Health & Wellbeing – discounted gym membership, online virtual workout sessions, online culinary classes
- OnHand – Giving you the opportunity to be an Eco & Social volunteer via a handy app. Volunteer individually or in groups to get involved in Youth Mentoring, Food Poverty, Homelessness & Elderly help.
- Employee Assistance Programme – specialist advice and support on issues such as finance, relationships, illness and family issues
- Free Domestic & General protection plan – one free plan each year with access to discounted rates of up to 50% on additional plans, including referrals for family and friends
- Employee discounts – with a range of discounts for 100s of online and high street retailers
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Domestic & General are an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.
Please note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes criminal record checks.
At Domestic & General, we are proud of our 100-year legacy and excited about our future growth plans. We are expanding our horizons, entering new markets and territories internationally and we need your expertise to help us on the journey.
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