Nest Pensions
Strategy and Innovation Associate
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Role Overview
Are you curious about how organisations make long-term strategic decisions, identify future opportunities and turn ideas into action?
We're looking for a Strategy and Innovation Associate to help shape the future of Nest's propositions and customer experience. Working across both the Customer Strategy and Innovation teams, you'll help explore some of the most important opportunities facing Nest, from improving outcomes for members, employers and connectors to identifying emerging trends that could influence our future direction.
This is a varied role where no two weeks are the same. You could be:
- Analysing customer, competitor or market insights
- Supporting the development of a major strategic project
- Investigating new technologies and industry innovations
- Contributing to business cases
- Helping to run workshops with colleagues from across the organisation
You'll work closely with senior colleagues and stakeholders, helping to turn complex information into clear recommendations and supporting strategic discussions that influence future decisions.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their career who is analytical, curious and eager to learn. You'll gain exposure to strategy development, innovation discovery, customer propositions and senior stakeholder engagement, while building skills that are highly valued across a wide range of strategy, insight and innovation careers.
The minimum criteria for this role are:
- Experience in a strategy, innovation, insight, research, proposition or other analytical role (or relevant learning).
- Strong analytical and research skills, with the ability to gather, assess and synthesise information from multiple sources.
- Ability to translate insights into clear implications, recommendations and actions for stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear presentations, summaries and reports.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently.
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Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- Hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- Reduce or vary working hours
- Reduce or vary the days worked
- Work compressed hours
- Job share
Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.
For more information about our recruitment process click here.
Directorate/Department Overview
The Nest Experience directorate is responsible for developing and evolving the propositions for our customers, for the service and experience that they enjoy and working with our delivery partners to ensure their data and assets are kept safe. This includes:
- Definition of our customer strategies
- Developing, maintaining and evolving our customer value propositions (including Retirements)
- The brand and marketing of Nest to our customers
- The design of the service experience our customers enjoy across all channels
- Working with our partner, TCS, to deliver a service that delights our customers and keeps their data and assets safe
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Organisational Overview
Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.
Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme. We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: careers@nestcorporation.org.uk.
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