Senior Manager Savings

Responsible for a growing portfolio of £2.5bn in balances, the Savings Senior Manager will play a key leadership role as we seek to sustainably grow our customer franchise through our Vanquis and Snoop Savings Brands.

The agile nature of the team will give the role holder a unique opportunity to vary and specialise their role across a range of product management disciplines, including Balance Sheet and P&L delivery, Forecasting & Pricing, Data Science, Product, Customer & Conduct Governance and overall Strategic development.

If you’re a commercially minded self-starter with knowledge of managing financial services products, this role represents a high impact opportunity to help Vanquis grow our award-winning Savings Business, with the Customer and Digital innovation at the heart of everything we do.

Responsibilities:

Balance Sheet and P&L delivery: Work closely with the Treasury function to ensure optimised funding and liquidity planning. Ongoing focus and improvement of our income and Cost profitability levers and effective discussion and action on Business Performance information.

Forecasting, Pricing and Data Science: Work with group partners to develop and manage cutting edge forecasting and price optimisation engines, that leverage latest machine learning and AI modelling techniques, alongside best in class visualisation tools.

Product, Customer and Conduct Governance: Ensuring our end-to-end product lifecycle management drives outstanding customer journeys with customer fair value, consumer duty, regulatory compliance and risk control embedded at every step.

Strategic development: Help articulate and execute the Brand, Proposition, Platform and Distribution strategy for the next 5 years, anticipating changes in customer behaviour to make sure our proposition is at the forefront of the market.

Experience required:

• Significant experience in UK financial products,

• Demonstrable experience in business management, strategic programme leadership, or senior support to executive leadership.

• Experience in working in cross-functional teams and working across product, finance, risk and data domains.

• Understanding of regulatory, legislative and compliance requirements in the UK financial services sector

• Experience of working in the Savings market desirable.

• Familiarity with model governance, performance monitoring, and regulatory expectations (e.g., model risk management).

• Degree-level qualification (or equivalent experience) in a quantitative or business discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Business, Data Science).

• Proficiency in data analysis tools and software, such as Excel, SQL or similar.

• Strong understanding of pricing and financial modelling methodologies.

• Adept at operating at both strategic and detail levels, with high analytical literacy.

• Highly structured, organised and methodical, with excellent planning skills.

• Capable of handling sensitive issues discreetly and operating with resilience in high-pressure environments.

• Strong data fluency, including the ability to interpret model logic, assess data pipelines, and engage confidently with technical colleagues.

• Demonstrated ability to drive financial performance and achieve business targets

• Knowledge of Consumer duty and Customer fair Value frameworks and their application to Retail Financial Products.

Location: London, Bradford, Petersfield or Chatham (Hybrid working)

Working Pattern: Hybrid—typically a couple of days a week in the office. Part-time or flexible arrangements are considered to support work-life balance. A fear of losing your current working flexibility shouldn't hinder you from applying for new opportunities, which is why we aim to match your existing flexible working arrangements where possible.

What We Offer:

• Holidays: 25 days holiday up to 30 days (depending on service)
• Pension: We know it is important to save for the future, that is why we will contribute up to 10%
• Maternity/Paternity: We realise that family time is important, we offer enhanced maternity (after successful completion of probation) and 4 weeks paternity leave
• Workations: opportunity to work abroad 20 days a year (approved list of countries) enabling you to visit family and friends or extend your trip
• Volunteering: 2 paid days to ‘give back’ to the charity of your choice
• Development: LinkedIn Learning for all
• Finance: Snoop Premium available to all colleagues
• Opportunities to connect: via quarterly socials, in-person and virtual company updates
• Medical: Opportunity to opt in for Private Medical Insurance
• Bonus: Discretionary annual bonus

Equal Opportunity Statement

Here at Vanquis Banking Group, we embrace everyone’s unique strengths and identities to be themselves at work. Regardless of how you identify yourself, your sexual orientation, martial or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national background, faith, disability, or age – your experiences and background help enrich our teams, and most importantly help support our customers in the best way possible. At the end of the day, its our people that help us to fulfil the reason why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available to help. You can contact us at [email protected]