Pet Trading Manager

Pet Trading Manager - Salary £45,000-£60,000

Locations: Leeds / Norwich / Bristol

Are you someone who enjoys turning insight into action to drive commercial performance?

This is a great role for someone with general insurance experience who enjoys working across teams to improve outcomes. You might be ready for a step up or looking to broaden your impact in a trading or product role.

A bit about the job:

You’ll help drive profitable growth across our Pet insurance channels. You’ll use insight to shape trading decisions, improve products, and deliver better customer outcomes. You’ll work closely with colleagues across pricing, underwriting, and operations. You’ll play a key role in delivering our Pet business plan and growth ambitions. You’ll be accountable for channel performance and continuous improvement.

• Drive trading performance through clear plans, data-led pricing, and underwriting actions.
• Own key commercial outcomes, including sales, conversion, premium growth, and retention.
• Define and deliver a product roadmap, testing new ideas to optimise performance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, integrating customer insights into decision-making.
• Manage risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and support planning, budgeting, and business cases.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience in general insurance, ideally personal lines.
• Strong commercial awareness and data-led decision making with ability to turn insight into clear, practical actions.
• Experience influencing or managing financial performance.
• Strong communication skills with a clear, simple style.
• Experience of trading personal lines products (pet an advantage) direct or via Price Comparison Websites (or both).

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary between £45,000 and £60,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please contact seema.rana@aviva.com