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11:FS • London, England

Senior Competitor Strategist

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  Competitive Salary

3–4 days/week at home

A little flex time

Dog friendly

Job Description

11:FS is on a mission to change the fabric of financial services. Our Consulting & Research practice builds challenger propositions globally, like we did for Natwest with Mettle. Our Pulse team creates a benchmarking tool used by the likes of Monzo, Starling, Natwest and Tesco Bank. Our Foundry team are delivering a Financial Services Operating System to help businesses quickly add financial services to their offering. On top of all of that, we’re a media company, generating content that supports our brand and changes the conversation - not necessarily in that order.

To do this we need an amazing team so we have pulled together the best in financial services and beyond.

We truly live our values at 11:FS, and they are critical to your entire journey here. ‘Cultural Add’ is as, if not more, important as pure technical fit, and as part of your interview process we’ll deep dive in our values and your beliefs. Everyone at 11:FS fits our 4 core values: Team, Attitude, Communication and Impact, and this remains at the core of our growth.

Purpose of Role: In this role you’ll be working in the heart of the dynamic Fintech market. You’ll play a role in 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 will identify opportunities for our clients to design and build new financial services that serve currently unmet customer needs.

What you'll be doing:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Work directly on client projects, conducting research about or benchmarking technologies, vendors and/or competitors to address the specific challenges faced by specific clients
  • Help to shape the research and strategy propositions 11:FS offers to its clients
  • Represent 11:FS in the media by taking part in our podcasts and responding to ad hoc requests from journalists
  • Support the growth of 11:FS by owning internal initiatives, actively helping to win new business and getting involved in marketing campaigns around your area of specialism

As a Competitor 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 industry or the technology industry, ideally both
  • Enthusiasm and eagerness to learn
  • The appetite to run projects, workshops and training (both internally and externally)
  • Strong commercial awareness that enables you to understand clients’ complex business problems, construct research-led project approaches and support 11:FS’s business development efforts
  • Good client engagement skills with the ability to build strong trusted relationships
  • A positive attitude and outlook even when facing the most difficult challenges
  • Comfort and enthusiasm for collaborating with diverse, multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment
  • A willingness and ability to travel and work on location in other countries for up to 25% of the time (when it is safe to do so)

Benefits:

  • Profit Share Scheme
  • Flexible working
  • Private medical
  • Pension - match up to 4%
  • Income protection
  • Life assurance
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption leave
  • Free eye test and contribution to eye wear for VDU
  • Corporate gym membership
  • Season ticket loan
  • Birthdays off (or your childs or anyone else you love’s birthday)

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Work from anywhere scheme
Summer hours
Discretionary bonus
Flexible working
Private medical
Pension - match up to 4%
Income protection
Life insurance
Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption leave
Free eye test and contribution to eye wear for VDU
Corporate gym membership
Season ticket loan
Birthdays off (or your child's if you prefer)
Work from anywhere up to 2 months per year

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options 11:FS provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure 11:FS is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.

Working at 11:FS

Company employees

129

Gender diversity (male:female)

59:41

Office locations

London

Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

Consultancy & Agency

Consultancy & Agency

Industry awards 2022