Insurance Trading Analyst London, England
Job description
***Remote/home working with weekly visits to our Kent or London office***
Our people are everything to us. The way they deliver exceptional experiences every day for our customers, for their colleagues. The way they own what they do. Their 'Why's it like that?' curiosity. How they always think of others and work together to get things done. For us, for you, make do will never do. Good enough? Not even close. Come and do the best work of your life alongside lovely colleagues. Come to Saga.
And right now we are looking for a Trading Analyst to join Saga at this exciting time to help drive the trading performance across all Insurance products. Working with our Head of Trading and Trading team, you will play a key part in delivering Saga Services insurance profit and volume growth targets.
This is a fast paced and varied role and will involve forensically reviewing trading results and trends to understand performance, investigating material deviations to plan and identifying opportunities to support volume growth and driving P&L performance.
Capitalising on insights, this exciting role will work cross-functionally to manage the existing trading delivery plans, highlight trading risks and identify opportunities to outperform trading metrics. The role will utilise both new and existing MI, customer insight and market trends to continuously test, develop and enhance the trading performance of Saga Services whilst ensuring that we deliver exceptional experiences for our customers
And in return, you can look forward to all the responsibility and involvement of an integral role, providing you with a rewarding and fast-paced career with an excellent benefits package.
Main Responsibilities- Supporting the Trading mission to profitably grow our trading performance through continuous insight and action; delivering on current year value and the 5-year plan.
- Working with Marketing, Pricing, Product, Operations, and other key stakeholders to support the trading agenda through effective collaboration across the whole insurance product range (core and add-ons).
- Supporting weekly trading sessions and monitoring performance vs. expectation (both internal and market metrics and insight) to inform decision making.
- Spotting risks and opportunity trends that can deliver business value.
- Considering risks and opportunities for both short and long term value.
- Supporting simple value assessments to support prioritisation and sizing of opportunities.
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence
- Knowledge or experience of UK Travel personal lines insurance desirable
- Bachelor/Master’s in a numerate subject or equivalent.
- Experience of working across multiple teams ideal but not essential
- Ability to identify key trends.
- Ability to communicate trends simply and consider implementable solutions.
Over the past 70 years we have become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. The Saga brand has become one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high quality products and exceptional standards of service. These include cruises and holidays, insurance, personal finance and the Saga Magazine.
At Saga we are committed to treating all employees fairly and to offering equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and advancement. We value diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because diverse teams perform better.
Fair consideration is given to applications from all applicants, including those with disabilities and those over who are over 50 as we are champions of age inclusivity. We are an official Disability Confident employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will make reasonable adjustments as required. For more information on our DEI policies please visit our Saga Careers page.
Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.
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Package DescriptionThe standard benefits when you join Saga include:
Remote working available where possible
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the choice to buy a further 5 days annual leave per year
Free private medical insurance after 1 years' service
Workplace Pension
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