Insurance Trading Manager - *FTC Until 30th November 2025*
Job Introduction
Insurance Trading Manager
Salary TBC
FTC Until 30th November 2025
London Hybrid
As one of our Trading Managers, you will play a key part in delivering Saga Services insurance profit and volume growth targets.
In this fast-paced and varied role, you will involve forensically reviewing trading results and trends to understand performance. You’ll be investigating material deviations to plan and identify opportunities to support volume growth and drive P&L performance.
Capitalising on insights, this exciting role will work cross-functionally to manage the existing trading delivery plans, highlight trading risks and identify opportunities to outperform trading metrics. The role will utilise both new and existing MI, customer insight and market trends to continuously test, develop and enhance the trading performance of Saga Services whilst ensuring that we deliver exceptional experiences for our customers.
Reporting to the Head of Trading, you’ll support BAU activity within our Insurance Brokering business as we work towards a seamless transition in our new Ageas partnership.
At Saga, we come together with a purpose so that we can collaborate with each other; as part of our Trading team, you would typically come together once a month in London.
Role Responsibility
As one of our Trading Managers, you will be responsible for driving weekly trading sessions and monitoring performance vs. expectations to inform decision-making.
Other accountabilities include:
- Drive Profitable Growth - Supporting the Trading mission to profitably grow our trading performance through continuous insight and action; delivering on current year value and the 5 year plan.
- Cross Collaboration - Working with Marketing, Pricing, Finance, Product, Operations and other key stakeholders to drive the trading agenda through effective collaboration across the whole insurance product range (core and add-ons)
- Be a Performance expert - Monitoring performance vs. expectation (both internal, market metrics and insight) to inform and drive decision making, spotting and generating risks and opportunity trends that can deliver business value.
- Drive Action - Creating value assessments to support prioritisation and sizing of opportunities, proposing and executing action to generate business value, considering impacts throughout the P&L and other business processes.
- Stakeholder management – Understand performance and articulate the meaningful headlines with stakeholders to enable informed decision making.
The Ideal Candidate
Our successful Trading Manager will have experience of UK Personal Lines Insurance with an understanding of commercial levers and business cases.
Other skills and experience required include:
- Experience of working across multiple teams and cross-team collaboration
- Experience of influencing stakeholders to support the delivery of financial plans
- Ability to identify and propose action to key trends.
- Ability to communicate trends simply, and drive implementable solutions.
- Ability to build simple business cases to inform and drive action across teams
- Knowledge of visualisation tools such as Tableau
Package Description
Everyday our colleagues deliver exceptional experiences to our customers. We believe exceptional work deserves even more exceptional rewards, that's why we have put together an amazing benefits package for all colleagues.
BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO ALL COLLEAGUES:
- Our working week is 35 hours per week, these can be worked flexibly to suit your working style
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Option to purchase additional leave up to 5 extra days
- Pension scheme matched up to 10%
- Life assurance policy on joining us
- Wellbeing programme
- Colleague discounts including family discounts on cruises and holidays
- Range of reductions and offers from leading retailers, travel groups and entertainment companies
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Grandparents leave
- Company performance related annual bonus - Up to 5%
- Income protection
- Access to Saga Academy, our bespoke learning platform
About the Company
Over the past 70 years we have become the UK's specialist provider of products and services to people aged over 50 in the UK. We’re one of the most recognised and trusted brands amongst UK consumers in this demographic, recognised for its high-quality products and exceptional standards of service. Our product portfolio includes cruises, holidays, insurance, personal finance products and our Saga Magazine.
We aim to be the largest and most-trusted brand for older people in the UK. Our focus on delivering exceptional experiences empowers our colleagues to create moments that are personal and special for our customers and for each other. Our values underpin our approach and help guide us to deliver our purpose.
We’re committed to making sure that colleagues can be their best, be themselves and make a difference – more than anywhere else. We do this by creating a truly inclusive culture, where all colleagues can bring their full and authentic selves to work and be treated with dignity and respect in an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment.
Thanks to our people, Saga has been ranked 6th in the UK’s Best Employers 2025 by the Financial Times and Statista. This recognition, based on the voices of 20,000 employees across the UK, is a testament to the great culture we’ve built together. This award belongs to all our colleagues who collectively make Saga a fantastic place to work.
We are champions of age inclusivity and signatories of the Age-Friendly Employer Pledge, we are proud of our multigenerational teams we have in place. We’re also a committed Disability Confident employer and ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
Your application will have fair consideration, and you’ll receive personal communication throughout your applicant journey when you apply to join Saga.
For more information on our DEI policies, colleague stories and other opportunities across the business, please visit Jobs and careers with Saga
Saga does not accept agency CVs unless specifically engaged on the role by the Talent Acquisition Team. Please do not forward CVs to our recruiters, employees or any other company location. Saga will not be responsible for any fees related to CVs received in this unsolicited manner.
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