Job Description

Company: Vaillant Group U.K. Ltd Location: Belper-GBR Country: United Kingdom (GB) Brand: Vaillant

Contract type: Permanent Working time: Full-time

What we achieve together

• In your role as Business Strategy Manager, you are responsible for translating the UK business strategy into actionable initiatives that drives sustainable growth, competitive advantage and long-term value creation.
• Your responsibilities will include leading and coordinating strategic projects, ensuring objectives are clearly defined, progress is monitored, and outcomes are successfully delivered.
• Together with cross-functional teams, you will identify improvement opportunities, challenge existing processes and help implement solutions that deliver sustainable value for the business.
• Alongside Product Management and Partnership teams, provide strategic support for mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and business development opportunities.
• Develop business cases and recommendations that enable informed investment and resource allocation decisions.
• By translating complex information into meaningful insights and presentations, you will support senior leadership in understanding risks, opportunities and strategic priorities, coordinating governance, executive reporting and tracking of strategic objectives.
• You will contribute to building a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration and innovation while ensuring strategic objectives remain aligned with customer and business needs.

What makes us successful together

• You hold a degree-level qualification, or you can demonstrate equivalent professional experience, showcasing a similar aptitude for critical thinking.
• You have experience working in a strategic, business planning, consulting, commercial or organisational development role where you have successfully influenced business outcomes.
• You possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data, develop meaningful insights and confidently present recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Experience within a manufacturing, engineering, technology or consumer-focused environment would be advantageous, along with exposure to strategic transformation or change initiatives.
• You are naturally curious, proactive and collaborative, with the confidence to challenge constructively, build relationships and influence others at all levels of the organisation.
• You can present strategic recommendations and business insights in a clear, concise and compelling manner, enabling effective decision-making across the business.

What you can count on

• We offer our employees an attractive remuneration package, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and bonus opportunities
• We are in the 7% of UK businesses that have received the gold award from Investors in People (IiP).
• Our onsite Bistro and Coffee Bar provide comfortable seating, healthy subsidised meal options and refreshments during the day
• We pride ourselves on our Family Friendly Policies, designed to support our employees during important life events
• We offer a generous pension scheme which enables our employees to have greater financial security when they do retire.
• For our employee’s peace of mind, we provide a death in service benefit and the option of subsidised private health care.

What makes us special

We take care of a better climate. In every home and our environment. As a successful family business, we have been living up to this claim for over 150 years. We are one of the world's leading providers of heat pumps, digital services and efficient gas heating appliances and offer energy-saving solutions.

You will find sustainability everywhere at the Vaillant Group. In the office, at the production sites and on the road. Around 16,000 employees from over 70 countries are committed to this every day. As an international team, we take responsibility - for our future and that of our planet. We promote your personal development so that you can act with passion and together we can ensure a better climate.

Become part of the Vaillant Group and help us shape the future of heating!

We promote equity and do not tolerate any form of discrimination. We value the uniqueness of each individual and encourage all people to apply.

Your Contact:

Amanda Smith

+44 7734 985 093