About the team & role
We are a small team that is part of the Strategy Team within Octopus Money. However, we have a broad mandate to help Octopus Group identify new opportunities and build new products in Octopus Investments as well as in 4 entrepreneur-led businesses (Octopus Money, Octopus Legacy, Seccl and amicable)
We are looking for motivated individuals to join our team to lead, in the first instance, the strategic development and launch of new products for Octopus Investments, a private market manager with £13bn under management across venture capital, real estate and infrastructure. The successful candidate will work across companies and teams at Octopus Group, as well as with external partners, to scope and deliver industry-changing projects. We have a strong bias to delivery and believe employees thrive when they obsess over outcomes not inputs.
What’s in it for you?
These roles are instrumental in shaping and delivering an ambitious growth and expansion plan over the next 5 years across the Octopus Group. We want to provide a unique opportunity to help you hone a broad range of general management and delivery skills. The role is defined at its core by variety. Although the initial focus of the role will be owning and delivering new commercial propositions, there will be future opportunities to work on a variety of project types across the Group.
What are we looking for?
✅Passion, and the confidence to believe that we can change established industries for the good of the customer
✅Generalists with high degrees of resilience and comfort working with ambiguity at pace. For these roles in particularly, we are looking for individuals with prior management consulting experience as this lends itself well to the scope of the role and skills required
✅ Exposure to commercial, distribution and/or new product development (bonus if in the financial services industry or growth organisations)
✅ A proven ability to effectively coordinate across multiple groups of stakeholders, build consensus and lead teams to execute successful projects
✅ A bias to action and the drive/willingness to to get things done in the most direct way, in the absence of formal processes and procedures
✅ Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – the ability to work with anyone and everyone
✅ Strong organisational, planning and project management skills
✅ Good analytical abilities and a basic level of comfort with financial modelling
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. What’s the worst that can happen?
Perks & Benefits
Make a difference
We're on a mission to help millions of people improve their finances. Seeing the impact we can make on our client's lives is deeply rewarding, and motivates the whole team to keep doing more to improve our service. Our client feedback is extremely positive, with a rating of 4.8 out of 5 on Vouchedfor.
Flexible working
We currently operate a hybrid model which is a mix of office and remote. You'll have the option of working from home 2 days per week (Monday and Friday) with the remainder from our central London office in Holborn.
Work from anywhere
We give an 18 day work from anywhere allowance to swap out the on site days or take some time working from another country. Due to regulations this does not apply to individuals that give regulated financial advice.
Join a great team
We're a diverse team with decades of experience in financial services and a proven track record. We don't like office politics, and believe in treating everyone with transparency and respect.
Rapidly grow your career
We believe in hiring people who are better than us, and giving them opportunities to achieve great things. As we continue to scale up, there will be opportunities for ambitious new joiners to demonstrate their skills and take on bigger roles.
Share incentive plan and team bonus
Being part of Octopus we benefit from the group share incentive plan. In addition, for those who are not commission based we offer a team bonus provided we meet our team goals.
Pension, enhanced parental leave, private medical insurance & other benefits
As an Octopus Money employee you'll get access to a company pension, enhanced parental leave, PMI and other benefits to make sure you're healthy and happy, now and in the future!
Our Values
At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.
We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.
We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.
