Product Strategy and Commercial Manager - Everyday Banking

AMS is the world's leading provider of Talent Acquisition and Management Services. Our contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) service partner with NatWest to support contingent recruitment processes.

On behalf of NatWest, we are looking for a Product Strategy and Commercial Manager - Everyday Banking for a 12 Month Day Rate Contract based in London.

NatWest is a major UK retail bank, providing every day banking services to over 17 million retail customers. The banks expertise and services span across Business Services, Corporate banking, Wealth Management, Group Functions, Retail and Investment Banking.

Job Description - The Role

Join us as a Product Strategy and Commercial Manager in Product Strategy & Simplification, where you'll lead the end-to-end development and delivery of Everyday Banking product strategy. You'll shape the future of current accounts and savings by setting direction, driving execution, and ensuring strategies translate into measurable customer and commercial outcomes.

We're looking for a strategic leader with strong commercial acumen and a customer-led mindset, capable of owning complex strategic initiatives from concept through to delivery. You'll use strategic, commercial, and data-driven insight to define priorities, make decisions, and influence senior leaders across the Retail Bank.

What you'll do:

You'll lead key initiatives within the Everyday Banking product strategy, from defining the strategic ambition through to design and execution.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning the development and delivery of elements of the Everyday Banking product strategy, ensuring alignment with customer needs, regulatory requirements, and commercial objectives
• Setting clear strategic direction and priorities for current accounts and savings, making trade-offs and decisions where required
• Leading complex strategic initiatives from ideation through to implementation, working closely with proposition, technology, finance, risk, and change teams
• Developing and owning robust commercial cases, including financial modelling, forecasting, scenario and sensitivity analysis
• Using internal and external data to identify opportunities, risks, and emerging trends, translating insight into clear strategic actions
• Crafting and presenting compelling strategic narratives to senior leadership forums, including ExCo audiences
• Building and maintaining strong senior stakeholder relationships across Retail Banking and enabling functions, influencing without authority where needed

The skills you'll need:

To succeed in this role, you'll be a confident strategic leader with a strong sense of ownership, able to operate effectively in ambiguity and lead complex work across multiple teams.

You'll have:

• Experience in a consultancy or financial services in a strategy or commercial based role
• A strong understanding of retail banking products and systems - particularly current accounts and savings
• Proven experience leading strategy or product initiatives end to end, from problem definition through to delivery and benefits realisation
• Strong commercial acumen, with a deep understanding of income drivers, balance sheet mechanics, and how retail banking products create value
• Experience influencing and advising senior stakeholders, with the credibility to challenge constructively and drive decisions
• The ability to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable recommendations linked to strategic and commercial outcomes
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to produce and present high-quality materials for senior leadership
• Well-developed leadership skills, with experience coaching, guiding, or line-managing others

Next steps

With an inclusive culture, excellent learning and development, and focus on wellbeing, there are plenty of reasons why NatWest is a great place to work in a temporary job. And you'll be helping to build a sustainable bank, committed to helping people, families, and businesses to thrive.

We will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

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