Commercial Manager

Are you someone who has a passion for driving commercial success and wants to work in a customer-focused environment where your decisions impact real-world outcomes? We are looking for an experienced Commercial Manager to join our team in a unique opportunity where you'll be able to make a real difference by applying strong commercial practices that drive tangible business benefit, while putting the customer at the heart of everything we do. A bit about the job: This is a key role in overseeing a high-value program of change activity within Aviva. With a significant investment across various business units in the UK, this role offers a broad remit with a strong focus on ensuring that commercial benefits are tracked, managed, and delivered effectively. You will work closely with delivery teams to ensure the program is set up correctly and that its outcomes are transparent and aligned with strategic objectives.

• Oversight & governance: Provide oversight and commercial governance across the transformation program, ensuring benefits are tracked and outcomes delivered.
• Analytical & reporting: Lead the analytical efforts and produce key reports to support senior committees, ensuring transparency and clear communication on progress.
• Commercial mindset: Take a hands-on approach to support delivery teams, bringing a commercial mindset to the table to identify, track, and communicate progress on benefits and outcomes.
• Senior leadership updates: Communicate regular updates to senior leadership, maintaining oversight of key program deliverables.
  
  Proven experience in financial analysis, modelling, and forecasting, ideally within a transformation environment.
• Ability to conduct complex variance analysis and interpret financial data to provide actionable insights
• Proactive in resolving complex commercial queries and supporting the project teams.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, able to explain complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
• Experience with commercial benefits would be a plus
  
  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.
• Salary around £50,000 (national), £60,000 (London) - 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
• 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
and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools
to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be. Aviva is for everyone: We're inclusive and - 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 around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues. To find out more about working at Aviva take a look We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you've applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we'll interview you.