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About the role
As Head of Savings and Investments, you’ll shape the future of our savings and investment propositions across our key product lines. You’ll lead the strategic direction and commercial growth across Active Savings and our Cash ISA, all the way through to our investment proposition across the rest of the ISA family and the General Investment Account offering.The key aim of this role is ensuring propositions continue to attract, retain and meet the evolving needs of our clients. This is a high‑impact role where you’ll bring together client insight, commercial performance, regulatory oversight and business leadership to deliver strong outcomes and drive continuous improvement across these flagship products.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading the Savings and Investment product offering, driving the vision and strategic development and ensuring oversight and control of all regulatory aspects of the service.
- Evolving and delivering the commercial and proposition plan.
- Owning the end-to-end savings proposition across product, operations and our commercial bank partnerships.
- Working alongside the commercial leadership team, to ensure our products attract and retain clients, ensuring we maximise cross sell and retention and ultimately driving AuA growth across the platform.
- Owning client and business outcomes, including adherence to regulation, standards and policies of the product, including Consumer Duty, Conduct and Vulnerable Clients.
- Working with the policy team to influence the future of ISA products.
- Working with the product team to ensure digital roadmaps are aligned to commercial outcomes.
- Managing relationships with key partners and third parties.
- Managing the risk and control environment, including management of risk, conduct and Conflicts of Interest.
About you
- Significant experience in Savings, ISAs and investing.
- Experienced commercial leader and P&L owner.
- Natural curiosity, entrepreneurial drive and a desire to be the best.
- Comfortable thriving with ambiguity and change.
- Proven experience of leading, inspiring and motivating a high performing team.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex initiatives in universally understood language to match Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) tone of voice.
- Proven ability to influence large teams without direct leadership authority.
- Highly analytical thinker, as well as a creative problem solver.
- Regulatory and Governance experience.
- Recognised as an industry expert, mentor, and teacher across the business.
Interview process
The interview process will include 2-3 stages including competency and leadership-based questions, a leadership assessment and a short task.
Working schedule
This is a full time, permanent role working 37.5 hours per week. Our office is based in central Bristol (BS1 5HL) and hybrid working is available, with a minimum of two days in the office per week.
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?
- Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review
- 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
- Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
- Enhanced parental leave
- Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
- Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
- Private medical insurance*
- Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
- Health screening programme
- Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
- Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
- Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
- Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
- Two paid volunteering days per year
* dependant on role level
** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year
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.
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What We Do
We’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol, where we now employ over 1,700 people. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments. Today we're trusted by over 1.7 million clients. Our service allows clients to bring all their ISAs, pensions, SIPPS, and savings into one easy to manage place, allowing them to be in control.
