Head of Direct Trading

Job Title: Head of Direct Trading
Target Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: 6 Month Fixed Term Contract, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: £72,000 - £108,000
Location: HomeWorker with occasional travel to our Bournemouth office
Closing Date for applications: Friday 22nd August

Head of Direct Trading: As the driving force behind the trading performance of ourDirect Distribution channels, you'll be at the heart of delivering exceptionalresults across New Business, In-Life, and Renewals. You'll lead the charge inachieving ambitious targets for customer volume, GWP, and income, while forgingpowerful relationships with the PCWs to secure strategic partner status. Yourinfluence will ensure Ageas's brand portfolio and strategy are front andcentre, enabling collaborative initiatives and seamless ways of working thatfuel growth and innovation.

You'll own and energise our trading activities across allchannels and lines of business, aligning plans and inspiring action across theorganisation. From chairing high-impact Direct Steer meetings to identifyingfresh market opportunities, your leadership will shape our propositiondeployment and marketing strategies-especially within the PCW channel. You'llbring insight and direction to renewal marketing, championing customer feedbackand optimising performance at every touchpoint.

Main Responsibilities as Head of Direct Trading:

• Drive cross-functional changeby aligningUnderwriting, Pricing, Marketing, and Digital teams to deliver strongcustomer and trading outcomes, while tracking and challenging initiativesfor financial benefit.
• Lead trading governancethrough weekly/monthlymeetings and the Trading Steer, ensuring strategic alignment andactionable insights across all disciplines.
• Act as a key Pricing Committee delegate,constructively challenging proposals and contributing to pricing forums,forecasts, and control reports with a customer-first mindset.
• Own PCW relationships, maintaining strong dailyengagement and leading monthly HoD calls across major partners (CTM, MSM,Confused), with strategic escalation support.
• Contribute to market planningthroughinvolvement in MYB and rolling forecasts, helping shape activity andchallenge assumptions to optimise performance.

Skills and experience you need as Head of Direct Trading:

• Proven commercial acumenwith deep expertisein general insurance, including aggregator channel management and digitaldistribution.
• Strategic leadershipwith the ability to drivechange, manage multiple projects, and influence cross-functional teams todeliver business outcomes.
• Highly analytical and results-driven, with strongforecasting, planning, and performance analysis capabilities.
• Exceptional stakeholder and relationshipmanagement, both internally and externally, including experience withsuppliers and marketing collaboration.
• Strong communication and technical skills, able toarticulate complex ideas, adapt messaging to different audiences, andcontribute to product development.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

Flexible Working- Smart employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health- Dental InsuranceHealth Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth- Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.

Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work- Returnto work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas:
We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter ,member of iCAN and GAIN .As a Disability Confident Leader ,we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience.If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone .

We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.To find out more about Ageas, see About Us .

Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.

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