Here at esure, we’re no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we’re getting ready for more. It’s creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.

We are currently recruiting for a Research Lead to join our Strategy function on a permanent basis. You will lead market and competitor analysis (including insurers, Insurtechs/ FinTechs, digital-native financial service companies) within the UK and globally!

Your research will play a critical role in supporting the Board, Executive team and senior leadership team to understand esure’s positioning in the market and ascertain potential strategic and performance improvement opportunities. It will also support the shortlisting and assessments of potential future partnership and opportunities.

What you will do:

• Take responsibility on behalf of esure’s Executive team for our understanding of the UK Retail general insurance marketplace and Retail financial services
• Source and analyse datasets to assess the key market dynamics across distribution, proposition, customer behaviour, claims and financial performance
• Maintain an external network that provides esure with qualitative intelligence on the market and the profiles of its major players
• Conduct analysis which combines internal and external data to objectively assess potential strategies that esure is considering
• Management of 1 direct report

What we’d love you to bring:

• A curious mind that seeks to understand how financial services work and are changing over time
• A passion for working with all types of data - from quantitative to qualitative, structured to unstructured, and small to large
• The ability to reconcile and synthesise data into simple digestible facts for senior leaders
• Extensive experience conducting market intelligence with an intermediate proficiency in a ‘big data’ language like SQL or Python

What we'll offer in return:

• A competitive salary that recognises your skills, experience and potential
• 28 days annual leave plus 8 flex days (equivalent to bank holidays to be taken as and when suits you)
• Flexible benefits platform - choose the benefits that suit you and your lifestyle
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible / hybrid working model
• Staff discount on our products

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. This might be part-time, job share or compressed hours for example. Anyone who applies for a role can ask about flexibility at interview. In return, we will explore what is possible for the role.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.