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Greater London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Strategy lead for the UK Individual Protection business, with position on Leadership Team, influencing and setting strategic direction with consideration for both current market dynamics, evolving future landscapes and conduct risk exposures.• Develop a clear and compelling strategic story for the business up to senior stakeholders, reflecting strategic ambitions, in-year priorities and identification of new growth opportunities for investment, including key business metrics and financial information. • Provide external insights to stretch thinking and help frame decision making. Long-term scenario planning exercise to ensure adequate evaluation of all external factors.• Business Development with Protection MD and Distribution Director to ensure the business is proactively considering new and emerging opportunities in a timely way.• Facilitate regular senior leadership team strategy sessions to help mature thinking and approach, use to drive a focus on strategic execution and embed rigour around speed of key decisions, phasing and activity prioritisation. Evaluate emerging risks for the business and ensure actions taken where required.• Responsible for development of next generation propositions for the business, championing the importance of understanding our current and future customers better and the changing world in which we all live. Undertake regular horizon scanning for new innovations, competitor activity and changing consumer behaviours. • Sponsor for the key strategic initiative for the Protection business in 2020, the development and launch of DigiCare+ health & wellbeing mobile app. Led the project team over 12 months to bring app to market, for new customers and 1.3 million existing customers. Developed a customer communication programme to drive engagement and utilisation and built data capability to gain insights into the health profile of our customer base and retention behaviour.• Supplier management and contract negotiation

London, England, United Kingdom

• Key role in building a Global Health & Protection community in Aviva, developing strong relationships with the members and creating an arena for collaboration. Facilitated sharing of best practices and new innovations. • Introduced financial reporting processes (quarterly performance reporting, forecasting and three year plans) to be able to identify and assess opportunities, drive growth in the portfolio and monitor progress. Prepared quarterly BRM documents to update senior executive sponsors. • Transformation and PMO responsibilities for the global portfolio and the UK Health business. Produced transformation roadmaps for each and prepared monthly Transformation Steering Committee papers for UK Health business. Reviewed and shaped business cases to ensure compelling and robust before submission for funding approval.• Set the global strategy for Health & Protection, identifying themes to champion and build momentum around which were relevant to our global footprint. Kept abreast of new and emerging trends, competitor activity and developments in the wider external environment to inform this. Strategic support to the different health and protection businesses across Aviva, working with them to identify market opportunities and define their longer term strategies.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Friends Life: Led monthly management information (MI) process for the Group, including planning, review and challenge of submissions and producing final output to the Board. Presented to the Finance Director ahead of distribution to the Executive Committee and Board. Redesigned MI pack to ensure relevancy of content and clear messaging of key information for discussion and decision making. • Integration with Aviva: Instrumental in the integration of the Aviva and Friends Life MI packs, including gap analysis, aligning metrics, obtaining buy-in from existing contributors for significant change in reporting and timelines.• Other responsibilities: Additional analysis as requested by CFO and input into Remuneration Committee papers.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Management Science

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