Senior Industry Strategist (T3)
At 11:FS we are dedicated to helping banks, insurance companies, investment managers and other financial services firms transform themselves and the industry we love. For us this means rethinking what it takes to operate in financial services top to bottom to help our partners build and launch next-generation digital propositions around the globe.
We are discovering, designing, developing and launching new customer propositions for our clients and treat every opportunity like a business, not a project. To do this we hire great people and get out of their way
The Role
The position is a three-month, fixed-term contract, with the possibility of going permanent afterwards, for a senior strategist in the Research & Strategy team in 11:FS Consulting. In this role you’ll be working in the heart of the dynamic Fintech market. You’ll play a role in discovering, defining, developing and launching services around the world that change the way that finance works. Our ambition is to create new businesses that have the customer at their centre. The research you lead and strategies you develop will identify opportunities for our clients to design and build new financial services that serve currently unmet customer needs.
You’ll be working directly alongside designers, developers and product managers to get new products and experiences into the market and into the hands of customers as quickly as possible.
What you'll be doing:
We are looking for a Senior Industry Strategist to work on client engagements. You will:
- Lead or work in a small highly skilled team of researchers, strategists, product managers and clients, to identify, create and develop world-class digital financial propositions and get them to market.
- Develop a deep understanding of fintech, including both direct-to-customer propositions and emerging technology vendors, and the technologies that underlie their solutions.
- Work directly on client projects, often leading the strategy workstreams, conducting research about or benchmarking technologies, vendors and/or competitors to address the specific challenges faced by specific clients.
- Research, draft and deliver high-quality, timely and relevant insights, advice and recommendations about to our clients through projects, advisory, reports, speeches and other formats.
- Be able to interview both business executives and consumers and then apply Jobs to be Done thinking to identify underserved opportunities in the market to create differentiated, digitally native propositions.
Your Experience and Mindset
As a Senior Industry Strategist, you will need:
- Passion and curiosity about fintech and the future of financial services.
- Strong opinions and expertise about how technology is changing or will change how banking, payments, investments and insurance work and the future of financial services.
- Relevant experience in formulating strategy or providing advice from either the financial services or the technology industry, ideally both.
- Comfort and enthusiasm for collaborating with diverse, multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.
- The appetite to run projects, workshops and training (both internally and externally).
- Client management skills, with the ability to build strong trusted relationships.
- A strong academic record – and/or an evident passion for understanding and explaining why some businesses succeed and others fail.
Benefits:
💸 Competitive salary
📆 25 days of annual leave, plus your birthday off and shutdown over the Christmas period
🏥 Top-tier BUPA private medical and dental insurance
🌴 Work from anywhere for 3 months of the year
🏠 Hybrid working
📚 Annual learning budget
💰 4% employer pension contribution
👶 Enhanced parental leave
🚴 Cycle to work scheme
💻 Top spec MacBook Pro
