Life at Elvie; Meaningful work, Exceptional People

We're Elvie. We create smart products, new solutions, and a fair few taboo-busting conversations while we’re at it. Founded by Tania Boler in 2013, we develop extraordinary innovations designed to improve women’s lives. It's a fascinating and challenging area that requires us to solve problems that no one else has ever tackled before.

At Elvie, you’ll be surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them. People who are passionate about our mission. People who are driven to solve problems and constantly consider the best ways to improve the health and wellbeing of women.

Find out more about life at Elvie here.

We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive:

• We make an impact: We’re mission-driven and not afraid to break boundaries. We relentlessly focus on going the extra mile to solve problems.
• We’re fearless innovators: We are passionate, curious, and data-driven. We continuously embrace change and innovation.
• We’re in it together: we fail and learn fast — always as one team — and have fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences.

Did you know?

In some regions our amazing products are considered to be medical devices. This means we maintain our Medical Device quality management system in compliance with ISO 13485:2016, to support the development of our groundbreaking products

About the role:

The Chief Strategy Officer reports directly into the CEO and is accountable for our corporate strategy & planning, project management and our business intelligence function. You’ll play a leading role with the Elvie executive team and board in refining and validating the strategy.

You’ll also work closely with other functional and market leads on key strategic projects to support growth and value creation and will lead the identification of new growth opportunities.

You will directly lead a team of 10 - a strategy manager, BI lead, BI analyst and a data engineer and a project management team of 6 - but will be expected to pull on resource cross-functionally.

Location: Hybrid working; a mix of working from our London & Bristol office & working remotely

Employment type: 12 month Fixed Term Contract (please note, you must have the right to work in the UK)

What you’ll be doing at Elvie:

The team works on the following focus areas:

Refine & drive Elvie’s strategy, including identifying new growth opportunities:

• Create & establish relevant market analysis to enable us to validate and pivot our strategy where needed. Understand and report back on market shifts and competitive activity. Identify relevant new-new growth areas
• Work with Product and CEO to develop the digital product strategy and roadmap for Elvie, considering Elvie’s inherent strength and development options as well as the wider market/competitive environment
• Work with CEO and CFO to develop the 3-5 year strategy and value creation narrative for Elvie
• Set annual plan for the following year, working with the CEO to ensure objectives, goals and actions to drive them are in place and we’re tracking the relevant metrics. Work with the exec to ensure meeting cycles are in place to drive progress. Work with exec and internal comms to align on a high level company strategy that is communicated to and reported back on to the full organisation

Deliver strategic plans through our programme management function:

• Lead the delivery of key projects through the PM function, also working with your Head of to adapt the way our project management function works to provide clarity on milestones and portfolio management, and evaluate our processes to balance visibility, appropriate sign off and speed
• Bring in more change management to Elvie to help teams embrace the scale up journey and changes we drive
• Working with product, technology and BI teams provide sponsorship of our data transformation programme to accelerate how our product teams access data, drive quality in how it is used and ensure access to our most critical metrics

Increase efficiency & effectiveness through creating access to consistent & high quality data and holding a mirror to our performance through our Business Intelligence team:

• Sponsor our data community - working with them to ensure data is used and managed in the right way and working with our General counsel to ensure compliance & regulatory needs are met and embedded through how we work
• Champion the utilisation of tools, technologies and processes to support a single source of the truth - and manage centralised data sources for our business critical information
• Through your team deliver new data infrastructure, architecture and models to accelerate access to specific data sets and unlock the value of our teams
• Lead a team to create and manage cross-functional reporting

What we are looking for:

Experience:

Essential

• Strong understanding of market research techniques and approaches and of data sets available for market and competitor analysis
• Experience in leading a strategy function in a digital, data led business, ideally a connected product business (e.g. Withings; Oura; Circular Ring; FRENZ etc)
• Ability to lead teams & drive cross-functional collaboration
• Experience of sourcing, collection and analysing data from multiple sources
• Presenting to CXO level audience

Desirable

• Experience leading a sizeable strategy function / team in a strategy consultancy or large corporate
• Experience in an international secondment or working on a number of projects involving overseas businesses
• Managing commercial due diligence processes
• Experience leading changes in the way a business collects, processes and analyses data

Knowledge:

Essential

• Basic financial reporting and analysis
• Global perspective
• Understand how projects are set up and managed
• Good knowledge of a consumer orientated business
• Excellent commercial awareness

Skills:

Essential

• Appraisal of major business development opportunities
• Strategy development experience
• Market and competitor analysis
• Excellent report writing (word and powerpoint) and presentation skills for a plc board audience
• Advanced microsoft excel skills
• Analytical rigour and attention to detail
• Articulate with excellent interpersonal skills – ability to establish credibility with senior management

Desirable

• Experience of deals outside of the UK
• Familiar with value based management approaches
• Experience of corporate planning

We're on an exceptional journey. And we can offer you a genuinely purpose-led career with a culture built on trust, autonomy, and flexibility. In addition, we'll give you:

• Lots of flexibility: whether it’s working from home, doing the school run, or life admin, we understand that flexibility is essential, and we trust you to do the right thing for you and us
• Share options: we want everyone to have a stake in our success
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays
• 8 extra life leave days; getting married, moving house, menopause or just things that you can’t put a label on that matter to you
• £100 contribution to your home working set up to spend as you see fit
• An annual personal development allowance of £200 and unlimited access to our learning and development platform, Learnerbly
• Generous parental leave policies; maternity & adoption (16 weeks at full pay, then 8 weeks paid at 75% followed by 15 weeks at SMP rate.), paternity/partner (6 weeks at full pay to take at any point during the first year of your child’s life), shared parental leave
• Healthcare plans, life insurance, and an employee assistance program for you and your family
• A tax-efficient group pension scheme
• Group income protection; protect your salary if you get sick
• A free Elvie trainer for you to keep or give away when you join
• Generous employee and friends & family discounts on Elvie products
• Wellbeing support from YuLife and access to SmartHealth app with unlimited GP appointments for you and your family, plus various well-being initiatives throughout the year
• Lovely offices in great locations, with drinks and snacks provided, along with fun social events

What you can expect after you’ve applied:

A member of our recruitment team will reach out to you after they have reviewed your application. You must ensure your application is completed correctly, and we strongly encourage you to add a cover letter or note to let us know why Elvie’s the right fit for you. We do often receive a large number of applications for our roles, please don’t let visibility of this deter you from applying. We review and aim to respond to every application.

We would like to get to know you through your background, attitude, experience and understand your motivation to work with us. Our interview process varies depending on the position, but it typically looks like this:

• 30-minute video call with one of our recruiters
• 30-45 minute video call with the hiring manager
• 45-60 minute video interview with the team (some positions may require you to complete a task/presentation)
• Interview with the senior leadership team

This is an exciting time to join Elvie. You’ll have a voice, make an impact, and have the opportunity to mould your role. So be ready to learn, have fun, and be inspired by our passionate, talented team — and having a sense of humour helps too. 😉

Belonging at Elvie

At Elvie, we believe having diverse teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to our success. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and we don't discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability or age.

If you need any support with your application, please get in contact with us: elvie@jobs.workablemail.com or 0203 884 7223.

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