Hodge
Senior Corporate Strategist
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Do you want to be part of a force for good, helping to make life better for customers & society in the moments that matter? At Hodge, we put people at the heart of our business and that means our customers, colleagues and communities. Hodge is a Welsh financial service provider that focus on real estate finance, and specialist residential mortgage markets.
The Role
The Senior Corporate Strategist will play an integral role in supporting the development and delivery of the Bank’s strategic agenda, combining rigorous analysis, market insight and external engagement to inform decision making and drive execution. The role holder plays a pivotal part in ensuring the Bank remains connected to market developments, investor sentiment and industry innovation while aligning growth ambitions with capital, risk appetite and regulatory constraints.
Essential Experience
- Extensive experience in corporate strategy (Banking/Financial Services)
- Extensive experience in strategy consulting
- Experience working with Senior Management Teams
- Experience in financial planning
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development of the Bank’s corporate strategy and multiyear plan.
- Lead discrete strategy workstreams (e.g. new markets, product evolution, cost transformation).
- Translate strategic priorities into deliverable initiatives and implementation roadmaps.
- Build and maintain a strong external network across industry peers, advisors and market participants. Actively gather market intelligence and insight through forums, industry events and direct engagement.
- Conduct market, competitor and customer analysis across priority segments. Track macroeconomics, regulatory and funding environment developments.
- Support identification and evaluation of new products, customer segments, strategic partnerships, M&A and portfolio opportunities.
- Develop financial models to assess strategy scenarios, investment cases and portfolio decisions. Partner with Finance and Treasury to ensure alignment with future planning and balance sheet strategy.
- Act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders across the business. Prepare high quality materials for Exco and Board level discussions. Influence decision making through clear, insight led recommendations.
- Monitoring of external benchmarking for Hodge and reporting KPI’s for the ExCo & Board.
- Support wider business deliverables as required.
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Please be aware that should we pursue your application, all our Financial Services employees will be expected to complete background checks to assess suitability for employment, these include; a criminal record, identity, media, sanctions, adverse finance, fraud prevention and reference checks to comply with our regulatory requirements.
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Hodge is an advocate of being an equal opportunities employer. We believe in promoting equality and diversity which is central to our lives today. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and recognise the value a diverse workforce brings to an organisation.
ESG and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do and serves as a reminder of the responsibility we have to our stakeholders, customers, colleagues and the communities we operate in to use our position wisely. We’re currently exploring different certifications available and have done an initial review of how we think we’d fare, as we see this as a real opportunity for Hodge given our social purpose.
Apply today to become part of Hodge’s mission to make life better for customers and society in the moments that matter.
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