Pet Trading Lead

Pet Trading Lead – Salary £75,000 to c. £90,000

Leeds, Bristol or Norwich

This is a great job for someone who has a strong General Insurance background (ideally within Personal Lines) and is looking to lead commercial strategy in a growth-focused area. This role would suit a strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen, who enjoys leading teams, owning P&L performance, and influencing a wide range of senior stakeholders.

A bit about the job:

This is an exciting opportunity to be responsible for driving and shaping the trading landscape for our Pet brands, delivering strong customer and commercial outcomes and supporting key business opportunities.

As Pet Trading Lead, you will lead the commercial strategy and be accountable for delivering brand and channel strategies, including proposition development, trading execution, and pricing and underwriting alignment. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including Pricing, Underwriting, Marketing, Finance and Digital to ensure effective delivery of trading plans.

You will also be responsible for P&L delivery, performance monitoring, and ensuring trading decisions deliver the right outcomes for customers while meeting commercial objectives.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong General Insurance experience, preferably within Personal Lines (Pet experience advantageous)

• Proven experience in P&L ownership and delivering commercial outcomes

• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate insight into clear trading and commercial strategies

• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills across a wide range of audiences

• Ability to monitor performance, use data and insight, and make effective commercial decisions

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary between £70,000 and c. £90,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please email seema.rana@aviva.com