Venture Strategy Lead (Fintech)

TL;DR

Venture Strategy Lead (Fintech): Shaping opportunity areas aligned to the 2030 strategy and turning ambiguity into compelling, venture-ready propositions. Focus on decoding emerging trends, customer behaviors, technology shifts and regulatory forces to spot bold opportunities with real strategic edge.

Location: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office a week in Manchester

Salary: £78,098 - £91,880

Company

hirify.global is scaling its disruptive innovation capability using Spark, its evidence‑led venture‑building framework spanning Explore → Accelerate → Commercialise.

What you will do

• Lead high‑energy Explore cycles, turning ambiguous opportunity spaces into sharp, insight‑driven directions for LBG’s future ventures.
• Unearth deep customer insight through targeted discovery and jobs‑to‑be‑done research, surfacing pains, needs and 10x moments worth solving.
• Work across silos to co‑create breakthrough concepts, shaping multi‑disciplinary opportunities that couldn’t exist within a single business unit.
• Shape high‑conviction venture briefs and early business models, translating insights into clear value propositions, target segments, and strategic narratives.
• Feed Explore insights into the wider Group Innovation portfolio, supporting the mission to shape the future of financial services through Horizon 2 and Horizon 3 innovation.

Requirements

• Creative, divergent thinker with the ability to generate bold ideas, then converge into structured hypotheses backed by evidence.
• Commercially rigorous strategist with strong modelling capability and the ability to connect opportunity, business model and market logic.
• Detail‑orientated system thinker, comfortable synthesising complex internal and external data into simple, compelling narratives.
• Highly effective facilitator and storyteller who brings cross‑functional groups together and influences at all organisational levels.
• Hands‑on venture shaper who loves ambiguity, designs experiments, and moves fast with evidence.

Nice to have

• Experience in corporate innovation, venture studios, business design, strategy consulting or product strategy with a focus in financial services.
• Experience creating business models, value propositions, market analyses and early commercial assessments
• Familiarity with financial services, fintech, and the technology landscape.
• Strategic foresight or emerging‑tech analysis experience aligned to corporate innovation trends

Culture & Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits to adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.