Business Architect, ManyPets
£70-80k
Pet insurance
Job no longer available
Pet insurance
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£70-80k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the world a better place for pets and their parents.
Role
Who you are
- A good understanding of change and delivery methodologies
- Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities
- The ability to recognise structural challenges within the business and functional interdependencies
- Experience in visualising transition states that depict how core functions and capabilities evolve modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
- Understanding / experience of product management
- Good knowledge of personal lines insurance and systems
- You understand the “big picture” but can deep dive into the detail if required
- A ‘can-do’ attitude to ‘get it done’ even under pressure
- Demonstrable track record of building consensus and delivering good outcomes that show measurable value to the business
- Experience working in fast-moving, agile, dynamic environment
- The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the business; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualisations
- Architecture and digital change experience (essential)
- Experience progressing through Architecture or Consulting roles
What the job involves
- You will be expected to exhibit change practitioner skills and attributes while being able to adapt to Insurtech ways of working
- As a Business Architect you will a play key role structuring Bought By Many / ManyPets in terms of its global design, operational capabilities, and future target operating model
- Responsible for driving the alignment of strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding products and service, partners and suppliers, business capabilities, and key business and digital product initiatives
- Develop an appropriate approach to demonstrate the degree of alignment of objectives and initiatives back to strategic goals and the vision for the business
- Capture the tactical and strategic business goals that provide traceability through the business and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance
- Design workable options for how the functions, capabilities and key partners for the business transition over time to achieve the vision
- Establish a credible working relationship with Group Product Managers, Product Managers and the Technical Head of Architecture that demonstrates meaningful negotiation and informed decision-making
- Assess degree of fit for new territorial expansions against current capabilities, global customer experience, and operational procedures, resulting in the development of options to proceed
- Further develop a global design approach that enables expansion of the business to be repeatable, modular and where exceptions are minimised
- Establish a clear and demonstrable understanding of how different domains across the product and engineering functions interact, how data flows and where dependencies exist, so that BBM/MP can deliver a coherent customer experience whilst continuing to rapidly evolve its products
- Ensure early visibility of watch out/ high risk areas both within the Delivery function, but also with key stakeholders, along with suitable alternatives for consideration
- Support the Head of Delivery to deliver coherent, joined up change support, by providing direction on key design constraints or mandates, visibility of transition states and critical thinking on the design of future capabilities/ requirements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
ManyPets offers pet insurance policies with generous pet health benefits, designed with the pets' needs in mind. Since 2017, ManyPets has helped to insure over half a million household pets. With more customers joining daily, the business is seeing considerable global growth.
ManyPets boast a number of awards within insurance and technology, ranking 30th on the Tech Track 100 (2020), they also won the Insurance Choice Awards (2020) for Best Pet Insurance Provider and Innovation of the Year.
However, 2023 was an eventful year for the pet insurance company, from pausing in the US market to exiting the Swedish market. Notably, the company recently announced a £42 million loss for the year ending March 2023. Despite these challenges, ManyPets remains resilient and forward-focused, halving its losses in 2024 and overhauling its product range in 2025. With an eye on growth and innovation, the company is well-poised to navigate these shifts, learn from experiences, and continue making strides in the evolving landscape of pet insurance.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2021
$350m
SERIES D
May 2020
$103.5m
SERIES C
Total funding: $483.2m
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Additional info
- Also has offices in Birmingham and Haywards Health, with international offices located in Stockholm, Sweden, Atlanta, and New York.
Leadership
Steven Mendel
(Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director)Steven has over 25 years of experience in Financial Services, including having worked as a Director at Barclays Wealth and as Head of Wealth Management at Close Brothers Group PLC.
Guy Farley
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Previously founded Orangery and Kube Parnters. They also worked as an Enterprise Architect at Agilisys and BT Global Services.
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