Senior Strategy & Business Insight Manager
Reference: StrategyPMB_1774869303
Job Description
The Senior Strategy & Business Insights Manager will ensure the organisation stays ahead of the curve by turning external insight into strategy and action. They will directly deliver work that will contribute to the client's goals of maintaining relevance of the profession, building organisational reputation and supporting resilience of members. The role will identify and interpret trends shaping our profession, market, and wider world, and translate them into clear choices for the Executive, informing strategy and the annual operational planning process. The postholder has an important role in accelerating problem solving across the organisation. Driving rapid, practical cross-functional sprints, delivering outputs that accelerate product innovation, decision-making, and organisational agility.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead external horizon scanning, across areas that are relevant to the profession and broader business world.
- Collaboratively coordinate and synthesise insights from external research, competitor activity, policy, and global trends.
- Develop and manage an enterprise-wide approach to capturing and organising strategic insight, in a consistent and easily shareable way.
- Produce clear, forward-looking analysis that informs Executive strategy discussions.
- Contribute to the development and written articulation of organisational strategy.
- Monitor and report on progress in implementing the strategy.
- Support the annual review of the strategic environment and assumptions, feeding insights into the refresh of strategy and the development of operational plans.
- Where required, commission or coordinate input from third parties to inform strategic reviews, specific pieces of research, or updates to the long-term strategy.
- Design, plan, and run strategic sprints on priority strategic challenges.
- Ensure sprint outcomes accelerate product-to-market, policy positions, or other key decision points.
- Act as a trusted partner to the CEO Office and senior leaders across the organisation, providing clarity and challenge on strategic issues.
- Work with product, service, and transformation leads to ensure insights drive measurable impact for members and stakeholders.
- Contribute to Executive reporting, preparing concise, evidence-led recommendations.
- Champion a culture of agility, pace, and evidence-based decision-making.
- Mentor colleagues in strategic thinking and problem-solving approaches.
- Build organisational capacity for agile problem-solving, equipping leaders and teams with sprint methods.
- Specific duties will vary from time to time in line with business needs.
Essential skills
- Degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience working in strategy, or insight in a large or complex organisation.
- Experience of horizon scanning, scenario planning or structured strategy review processes.
- Demonstrable track record of leading sprints, tiger teams, or other agile interventions that delivered tangible outcomes.
- Able to gather and interpret business, political and international market insight, and turn it into clear, practical recommendations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, able to connect detail with the bigger picture.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills. Including confidence running senior level workshops.
- Experience producing high-quality reports and presentations for Executive audiences.
- Highly organised, able to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
- Collaborative style, with a track record of building effective cross-functional relationships and working with senior leaders.
Desirable
- Professional qualification in strategy, business analysis or project management.
- Understanding of governance, risk and compliance processes, with the ability to align work within existing business structures.
- Experience considering international and geopolitical trends and their implications.
- Experience commissioning or managing external consultants or researchers.
GCS is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Senior Strategy & Business Insight Manager
Greater London
Permanent
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