Strategy Manager

The team

Strategy & Insights is a team of multiskilled individuals who uncover business problems, analyse the size of the problem, bring best practices from within and across industries and work with various departments to derive solutions, define the impact of the solutions, and ultimately deliver key change projects to achieve tangible results. The Strategy & Insights function acts as the office of the CEO, and is pivotal to providing key decision-making analysis to inform business decisions.

Reporting lines

• Directly reporting to the Operations Director
• Working closely with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team

The responsibilities

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Extracting and analysing data with the aim to build comprehensive reporting and driving business insight
• Working with data source owners and data engineering team to ensure that key data is accurate, automated and timely
• Working with the data engineering team to monitor and measure the impact of various solutions
• Helping drive the evolution of the content and automation of management information, ensuring its optimal value and efficiency of production
• Using insights to influence decisions, finding solutions to existing business problems, and delivering data-driven actions for various business departments
• Leading the way by being a catalyst for change, championing new initiatives and working to fix the root causes of problems
• Deliver key change on commercial projects; working with various departments to ensure these solutions are delivered in a timely manner
• Identifying and evaluating business risks and opportunities; identifying options to mitigate the risks and exploiting the opportunities
• Building strong relationships, trust and credibility with relevant stakeholders across the business
• Developing a detailed understanding of key revenue and cost drivers, as well as relevant competitor and industry context
• Upskilling the Insight Analyst in the team in order to strengthen and improve overall team output

Other:

• Helping to shape the Strategy & Insights function
• Providing support in creating forecasts / setting budgets / drafting board materials
• Delivering ad hoc projects and initiatives

The experience and skillset

This role will suit an individual looking to drive some of the actions stemming from the data-driven insight created for various departments and who wants to have significant exposure to key decision-making. The ideal candidate would demonstrate the following experience:

• A proven track record (likely gained over four/five years) of working in a high-paced and project-based organisation, ideally management consultancy, or tech-led company.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to review and understand business models and strategies, focus on key issues, and deliver relevant analysis.
• Strong commercial awareness; ability to develop an understanding of commercial issues quickly.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to form working relationships and gain credibility with colleagues from different levels and disciplines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate effectively, concisely and accurately.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, ideally a good level of proficiency in SQL, R or python, and demonstrated ability to leverage different IT systems (Not Essential)
• Good organisational skills, with the ability to successfully balance multiple priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Keen to work in a fast-paced scale-up environment.
• Flexible and able to work outside a standard structure and framework.
• A team player; someone who is open and able and willing to deliver beyond his or her personal brief
• Proven people management skills. The ideal candidate would have led various teams in the past and contributed to the progression of more junior team members
• Highly motivated individual, with the ability to challenge current practices and a desire to constantly learn and develop

About Yopa

Winner of the Best Hybrid Agency for the 2021 Negotiator award!

Winner of Best Online Agent for 2019 at UK Estate Agent of the Year awards!

Winner of the allAgents.co.uk awards for best UK Online & Hybrid Estate Agency 2018 & 2019!

Yopa is a leading UK-based full service, fair fixed fee estate agent.

Founded in 2015, Yopa has already become the 8th largest estate agent in the UK.

In 2017 Yopa was recognised by LinkedIn as one of the UK’s Top 20 Start-up companies to work for.

We are disrupting the traditional high street agencies by doing away with the unnecessary cost of high street shop fronts and leveraging its proprietary technology and scale to deliver a great experience for its customers, all for a fair fixed fee.

Yopa has already received over 7,500 ‘5 star’ Trustpilot reviews from delighted customers and is backed by some of the biggest names in the property industry including Savills, DMGT and LSL Property Services plc.

Yopa is scaling, fast. We’ve achieved a lot so far, but we have big ambitions and the opportunity is huge.