Commercial Lead - London, United Kingdom - Experian

Experian

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Company Description

Who are Experian?
We are the world's leading global information services company.

During life's big moments - from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers - we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence.

We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organisations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 20,000 people operating across 44 countries and every day we're investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximise every opportunity.

We are listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and are a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Our approach to flexible working

We care about work that works, whether that's about where you work or adjusting your hours to fit better with your life.

Our flexible working practices, including our hybrid working model where you can split your working time between the office and your home, support our belief that this balance brings long-lasting benefits for our business as well as ensuring that our people can balance successful careers with their commitments and interests outside of work.

So that you can love where you work, please discuss what works for you with your recruiter during the hiring process.

Accepting you, for you.

We want you to feel accepted for who you are and to feel safe, valued and to help us build a culture of true belonging.

Experian is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we take affirmative action to create a more inclusive and equitable world of work.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, Veteran status or whether you're pregnant or on family leave.

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced
Commercial Lead to join our
Marketplace Team and take ownership of our
Car Finance vertical.

At Experian, we are purpose-led. We want to create a better tomorrow for consumers, for businesses, for our people and for our communities.

We play a pivotal role in society, and it is our responsibility to use our capabilities and data as a force for good, particularly in our consumer business where we help millions of users avoid overpaying for credit.

Having achieved rapid growth in our Credit Card and Loans verticals, we are now looking to do the same for Car Finance, changing the way consumers finance their vehicles and saving them thousands of pounds in the process.

This role will give you the opportunity to both innovate and execute against a plan as you'll be responsible for driving commercial performance and growth of the vertical.

As the Commercial Lead you will:

Own all our key relationships and be responsible for developing new ones.
Work with a mixture of startups and established players in the Car Finance market.
You will work closely with a number of internal, particularly Product to refine our strategy and roadmap and Marketing to generate engagement from our customer base.
You will be motivated by influencing our key metrics, living and breathing our funnel to find optimisation opportunities.
You will also think about the bigger picture and in particular, the impact of new trends and competitor activity on our products.

Qualifications:

We believe in constantly learning, so we don't necessarily expect to get fully developed expertise in each of these points listed below. If you can tick some of them off, we'd love to talk to you and understand how we can help you develop.

A solid understanding of ecommerce/ scaling technology businesses (finance/ car finance experience is not essential)
A passion for innovation, unhindered by 'the way we've always done things'
A brilliant communicator able to get into the detail of not only the 'what', but also the 'why'
A decisionmaker able to understand the implications of those decisions on the task in hand and our wider business
An influencer able to comfortably engage with senior stakeholders both internally and externally
Commercially minded, experience negotiating pricing/ contracts would be useful
Understanding wider market sizing, trends and movements, including competitive threats and opportunities

Additional Information

Why choose us?

Our colleagues' health and wellbeing are a top priority for us, that's why our reward, benefits and wellbeing programmes are designed so you can come to work feeling your very best self.

Our benefits focus on health, money, and lifestyle so you can tailor your benefits to your own personal needs. Whether it's your physical and mental wellness, getting to work or preparing for the next big milestone in your life, we hav