Senior Strategy Manager

Excited to grow your career?

Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!

About the role

Join us as a Senior Strategy Manager and play a pivotal role in defining, developing, and driving the strategic direction of the UK’s leading investment platform. You’ll work side by side with senior leaders, transforming insight into action and ensuring our biggest priorities are clear, evidence led, and aligned to long term growth. From analysing markets and competitors to crafting board level strategic materials, this is your opportunity to make a real, lasting impact at the heart of HL.

What you’ll be doing

• Drive the annual multi‑year strategic planning process with high‑quality analysis and research.
• Develop and maintain strategic frameworks, plans, and executive‑level presentations.
• Translate strategic priorities into clear objectives and measurable initiatives.
• Conduct market, competitor, regulatory, and macroeconomic research to inform decision‑making.
• Produce clear insights, briefings, and scenario analyses for senior leaders.
• Assess strategic options, investment cases, and potential partnerships or propositions.
• Contribute to due diligence and post‑decision reviews where required.
• Collaborate across finance, client, digital, product, transformation, and operational teams to ensure alignment.
• Prepare, coordinate, and quality‑check materials for Executive Committee and Board forums.
• Enhance strategy tools, templates, and best‑practice approaches while building your own strategic capability.

About you

• Experience in strategy, consulting, or analytical roles ideally in a financial service or tech retail industry.
• Interest and knowledge of financial services, technology, strategy, economics, or business transformation, with an ability to forecast trends and stay ahead of emerging innovations
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, able to present complex information in simple context, adapting your style to suit your audience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with high attention to detail.
• Confident quantitative and qualitative research capability.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams, prioritise, and meet deadlines.
• Curious, commercially minded, collaborative, and comfortable engaging senior stakeholders with integrity and professionalism.

Interview process

This will entail a 2-stage interview process including a presentation and psychometric assessment.

Working Schedule

This role is based in Bristol head office, BS1 5HL. This role is a permanent role, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We have returned to the office, however for this role we offer a hybrid flexible working pattern.

Why us?

Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

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Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.