Strategy Manager

Our client, a boutique Asset Manager with circa $12Bil AUM has a newly created role for a Strategy Manager where the successful candidate will help form and shape the firm’s corporate strategy and support its effective implementation.
Role & Responsibilities
In conjunction with senior management, develop, evolve and challenge the firms UK strategy.
Manage periodic strategic planning exercises, ensuring appropriate levels of input and engagement.
Develop and manage processes to ensure that appropriate consideration is given to sustainability risks and opportunities in the UK’s strategy and decision-making.
Draw on relevant external perspectives relevant to strategy.
Design, including relevant trends and competitor developments.
Manage processes to assess the resilience of the forms UK’s strategy to external and internal events and the evolving competitive landscape.
Support on the communication of the strategy and associated business plan, taking the lead drafting the business plan and preparing periodic updates to colleagues.
Manage the strategy implementation process, suggesting improvements as needed.
Provide support in driving and implementing new strategies and initiatives as needed, including any special projects.
Advise on, and contribute to, cultural strategies and programmes to ensure organisational culture is aligned to, and supportive of, the agreed strategy.
Prepare regular internal reporting for senior stakeholders, including the Board of Directors.
Experience & Qualifications
Minimum 3 years’ corporate strategy experience
within Asset Management.
Degree Educated in a relevant subject.
thinking and planning.
and analytical skills, including tools like SWOT analysis and scenario planning.
modelling, budgeting, forecasting.
management and implementation.
management, both processes and people-related aspects.
and relationship building.
particularly written.
in sustainability / ESG.
services, especially institutional asset management.
of sustainability-related disclosure regulation (e.g. IFRS S1&S2).
to work independently, with limited day to day supervision.
Please note that due to the high volume of applicants responding to our adverts we are regrettably not able to feedback on all applications; only successful candidates will be contacted.