Stuart Brown Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

The Bridge International has a number of Commercial Service offerings tailored to support any business.Often we see businesses which are data rich and insights poor despite significant investment in technology, security and systems. With so much data available its easy to get overwhelmed and suffer from analysis paralysis.Having run large scale businesses and P&L's, our team has a unique talent to quickly assess multiple sources of data and determine the metrics that matter. We… Show more The Bridge International has a number of Commercial Service offerings tailored to support any business.Often we see businesses which are data rich and insights poor despite significant investment in technology, security and systems. With so much data available its easy to get overwhelmed and suffer from analysis paralysis.Having run large scale businesses and P&L's, our team has a unique talent to quickly assess multiple sources of data and determine the metrics that matter. We use these combined with qualitative insights to identify key drivers of performance. We can clearly tell the story of past performance, but are able to more importantly inform future business strategy. We can work right across your business from analysts to the C-suite to simplify the most complex, big data sources to discover the critical insights and solve key business challenges.Types of Services offered:- P&L deep dives- Channel economics- Pricing and commercial recommendations - Cost and claims optimisation reviews- Vendor and partner recommendations- KPI and report hierarchy review- Report design and implementation- Portfolio strategies- KRA and balanced scorecard review (right targets for right roles) Show less

Sydney, Australia

The Bridge International is a non-traditional management consulting team operating in Australia and internationally, with deep client side experience within the financial services and other industries.We pride ourselves on being practitioners; experienced executives that have worked successfully in business, rather than career consultants.We have built a fairer, value model of advisory services that offers better outcome at a lower cost for our clients. We achieve this by fast… Show more The Bridge International is a non-traditional management consulting team operating in Australia and internationally, with deep client side experience within the financial services and other industries.We pride ourselves on being practitioners; experienced executives that have worked successfully in business, rather than career consultants.We have built a fairer, value model of advisory services that offers better outcome at a lower cost for our clients. We achieve this by fast tracked discovery, insights, strategy and problem solving as well as helping execute pragmatic solutions that drive real value.We believe in ‘progress not perfection’ and our Triple Play philosophy ensures that you always get the whole picture – culture, customer and commercials. Our services span strategic advisory services, customer and operations, commercial, culture & risk and program delivery. Show less

Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for the P&L management of Insurance business’. This includes responsibility for the portfolio strategy and commercial leadership across the entire insurance value chain. Key responsibilities:• Financial performance of the state based portfolio brands, including Growth and underwriting profit targets• Budgeting and Reforecasting processes and stakeholder management• Trading rhythm leadership - Operational and Executive briefing• Commercial… Show more Responsible for the P&L management of Insurance business’. This includes responsibility for the portfolio strategy and commercial leadership across the entire insurance value chain. Key responsibilities:• Financial performance of the state based portfolio brands, including Growth and underwriting profit targets• Budgeting and Reforecasting processes and stakeholder management• Trading rhythm leadership - Operational and Executive briefing• Commercial leadership• Cross-functional engagement across the insurance value chain (Marketing, Front line operations (onshore/offshore), Digital, Customer experience, Claims and Finance) Show less

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for leadership and direction in the development and implementation of strategic roadmap for Coles Insurance, in addition to supporting the Head of Insurance in execution and development of the long term growth strategy in order to deliver incremental enterprise value to IAG.Key responsibilities:• Development of the Annual and Strategic Plan for Coles Insurance and contributing to organisational priorities each year• Development of capital investment roadmap (circa… Show more Responsible for leadership and direction in the development and implementation of strategic roadmap for Coles Insurance, in addition to supporting the Head of Insurance in execution and development of the long term growth strategy in order to deliver incremental enterprise value to IAG.Key responsibilities:• Development of the Annual and Strategic Plan for Coles Insurance and contributing to organisational priorities each year• Development of capital investment roadmap (circa $60m of capital investment)• Responsible for development of contractual matters within commercial negotiation • Development of key financial summaries and briefing papers for CFO and CEO on the growth and profitability forecast of the business• Working closely with internal valuations teams to ensure alignment of business priorities are contributing to organisational value Show less

Melbourne, Australia

As Implementation Manager across Challenger Markets within Personal Insurance, I was required to ultilise my experience across all facets of the business.Key responsibility of this role was to deliver both short term tactical initiatives as well as execute large scale projects with a core principle of being people/ relationship focused on all levels.This role required working cross functionally with Sales/ Service, Portfolio, Pricing, Product, Marketing, Claims and external… Show more As Implementation Manager across Challenger Markets within Personal Insurance, I was required to ultilise my experience across all facets of the business.Key responsibility of this role was to deliver both short term tactical initiatives as well as execute large scale projects with a core principle of being people/ relationship focused on all levels.This role required working cross functionally with Sales/ Service, Portfolio, Pricing, Product, Marketing, Claims and external partnerships to deliver tactical initiatives. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

The role situated within the Personal Lines Product and Underwriting team, Responsible for Portfolio Management of the Coles Insurance Home portfolio which included P&L ownership and pricing accountability. Leading a team which was responsible for pricing decisions, budget cycle, sales campaign decisions. This role was over encompassing across the entire value chain from Marketing, Sales and Service to Claims.Key Achievements:• Delivered above expectations in financial and… Show more The role situated within the Personal Lines Product and Underwriting team, Responsible for Portfolio Management of the Coles Insurance Home portfolio which included P&L ownership and pricing accountability. Leading a team which was responsible for pricing decisions, budget cycle, sales campaign decisions. This role was over encompassing across the entire value chain from Marketing, Sales and Service to Claims.Key Achievements:• Delivered above expectations in financial and performance KPIs – ‘delivered a strong financial result to the group, 50% portfolio growth plus achieved COR breakeven 2 years ahead of corporate plan.’• Delivered new capability and lead people to deliver better outcomes – ’Lead and implemented enhanced peril risk modeling’, inclusive of Flood & Bushfire.• Lead key projects within the team which has resulted in delivering enhanced capability – ‘Lead key project which enhanced the pricing sophistication project which implemented market leading pricing capability for Wesfarmers Insurance.’ Show less

Melbourne, Australia

Joining Wesfarmers Insurance Personal Lines team key responsibilities were building core systems, pricing approach and analysis, building reporting platforms and leveraging approach across Wesfarmers Insurance Personal lines. (Lumley, OAMPS Personal Lines, WFI an Affinity and Direct)Key Achievements• Lead key projects within the team which has resulted in delivering several new product offerings and enhancements to existing functionality.• Project member in the development of an… Show more Joining Wesfarmers Insurance Personal Lines team key responsibilities were building core systems, pricing approach and analysis, building reporting platforms and leveraging approach across Wesfarmers Insurance Personal lines. (Lumley, OAMPS Personal Lines, WFI an Affinity and Direct)Key Achievements• Lead key projects within the team which has resulted in delivering several new product offerings and enhancements to existing functionality.• Project member in the development of an end to end personal insurance technology platform for Wesfarmers Insurance included the launch of Coles Insurance, Home and Motor products. • Built the insurance renewal process from the ground up, inclusive of end to end process, capping and cupping technology and sales/endorsement process.• Actively managed over 100 price reviews of Coles Insurance lead to Coles Insurance being the ‘fastest growing insurer’• Product and Pricing Project lead on the development and implementation of the OAMPS personal insurance white label product.• Lead the turnaround of the Lumley intermediated personal lines portfolio, introduced sophisticated pricing capability and implemented a broker front end platform.• Implemented Rating improvements to the WFI portfolio included pricing expanding postcode regions from 5 to 150, vehicle scoring from 3 ranks to 80 and accessed the benefit of address validation for flood modeling. Show less

Joining the Suncorp Niche pricing team working within APIA brand, key responsibilities include implementation of Price changes, conducting analysis to provide support to pricing team, review of price changes, and competitor monitoring

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Finance, Economics, Quantitative Business Analysis

Certificate Iv In Frontline Management, Frontline Management