Royal London
Senior Strategy Manager
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Job Description
Contract Type
Permanent
Location
Alderley Park
Working Style
50/50 hybrid
Closing Date
22nd September 2026
Role Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join Royal London as a Senior Strategy Manager, working as a senior strategic partner to the Chief Operating Office Senior Leadership Team.
The role will help leaders create, shape, and connect their strategies so that the COO function operates with greater clarity, alignment, and shared purpose. You will own the end-to-end approach to shaping, reporting, and reviewing COO and SLT priorities, turning evidence into insight, constructive challenge, and action.
Working across operations, technology, data, security, digital, change, and shared capabilities, you will connect strategic thinking, identify dependencies, and help leaders focus on the choices and outcomes that matter most.
You will also bring an innovation lens as part of the role by scanning emerging market and technology developments, connecting them to Royal London’s strategic priorities, and turning relevant opportunities into focused discovery, experimentation, and practical recommendations. You will lead the COO Strategy Community and build purposeful relationships with FinTech Scotland, start-ups, and other external partners to bring relevant insight and fresh thinking into Royal London. You’ll help translate promising ideas into focused opportunities, supporting them to move from insight through to practical action.
About the Role
- Own the end-to-end process for shaping, agreeing, maintaining, and evolving COO and SLT priorities, ensuring they are outcome-led, measurable, and aligned to Royal London strategy.
- Own priority reporting and strategic review, turning quantitative and qualitative evidence into clear insight on progress, risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and decisions required.
- Partner with SLT members and their teams to create, refresh, and connect functional strategies and roadmaps, providing constructive challenge and clarifying strategic choices.
- Join up strategic thinking across operations, technology, data, security, digital, change, and shared capabilities, identifying overlaps, gaps, and competing demands.
- Embed outcome-led strategic practices across COO and wider Royal London, improving how priorities are set, decisions are made, and progress is reviewed.
- Lead the COO Strategy Community, horizon scanning, and engagement with FinTech Scotland, relevant start-ups, and external partners to identify opportunities for learning, collaboration, and experimentation.
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About You
- Extensive experience in strategic planning, technology, management consulting, or a related field, working directly with senior leaders in a complex organization.
- A strong track record of turning enterprise strategy into clear functional priorities, roadmaps, measurable outcomes, and practical choices.
- Experienced in executive priority reporting and review, combining quantitative and qualitative evidence to provide insight, constructive challenge, and clear recommendations.
- A credible senior stakeholder influencer who can facilitate leadership discussions, navigate differing perspectives, and influence decisions without relying on formal authority.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to make sense of complex information, see connections, and reach clear conclusions even when the evidence is incomplete.
- An excellent communicator who can produce concise, evidence-based strategic narratives, papers, and presentations for executive and Board audiences.
- A strong understanding of technology, data, analytics, and automation, with the confidence to use AI-enabled tools, including agentic AI, to improve insight, productivity, and decision-making.
- Financial services experience is strongly preferred, with exposure to life, pensions, or asset management beneficial.
- A strong sense of curiosity and a growth mindset, with the willingness to experiment, learn quickly, and continually explore better ways of working.
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About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings, and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable, and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Benefits
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme, and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits.
Inclusion, Diversity, and Belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognized and respected - whatever their background.
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