Operations Strategy & Commercial Lead, 12 month FTC
Lead the Operations strategy and commercial initiatives at Monzo during a 12-month caregiver leave period.
Posted by employer 4 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 days ago
Last verified on the company career page 17 hours ago
What you'll build
- Shape and evolve the Operations strategy
- Drive commercial visibility and performance management
- Translate strategy into recommendations for senior leaders
- Manage and coordinate the Operations Roadmap
- Drive high impact cross functional initiatives
Must have
- Strong experience in strategy, commercial, transformation, or business operations
- Track record of solving complex problems with analytical rigour
- Strong commercial acumen
- Comfortable working on P&L analysis and business cases
- Excellent strategic thinker
- Strong communicator
Nice to have
- Experience leading cross functional work
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity
- Highly organized
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Operations Strategy & Commercial Lead at Monzo is responsible for refining the Operations strategy and ensuring alignment with customer outcomes and operational efficiency. This role requires strong analytical skills and commercial acumen, as the individual will conduct performance analysis and support strategic decision-making through clear recommendations. Ideal candidates will have a background in strategy or business operations within fast-paced environments, and must be adept at navigating ambiguity while driving cross-functional initiatives.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 3 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Monzo's career page.
- Monzo has 78 other open roles including Finance Internal Controls Analyst , Martech Specialist, AI Deployment, Senior Motion Designer.
Quick facts
- Is the Operations Strategy & Commercial Lead, 12 month FTC role remote?
- Yes — Monzo lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Monzo lists £92,400–£118,225 for this role.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Monzo targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Contract for this Operations Strategy & Commercial Lead, 12 month FTC role at Monzo.
From the original posting
🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.
We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.
With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!
We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️
📍UK Remote | 💰£92,400 - £118,225 + Benefits ✨
The Role
We’re looking for a Strategy and Commercial Lead to help shape and evolve the Operations strategy as we scale, for a 12 months' caregiver leave period.
You’ll help leadership make better decisions by bringing together performance insight, financial analysis, strategic thinking and structured problem solving. You’ll play an important role in making sure our priorities, investments and execution stay aligned as Operations grows in scale and complexity.
This is a high ownership role for someone who is comfortable moving between big picture strategy and detailed analysis, and who enjoys working across teams to turn ambiguity into clarity and action.
🔑 You’ll play a key role by...
- Helping shape and continually evolve the Operations strategy, ensuring our priorities, trade offs and investments stay aligned to customer outcomes, operational resilience and long term efficiency
- Driving commercial visibility and performance management across Operations, including P&L monitoring, analysis and identifying the biggest opportunities to improve unit economics over time
- Translating strategy, performance and progress into clear recommendations and decision support for senior leaders
- Partnering closely with teams across Operations, Product, Engineering and Finance to connect strategy to delivery and make sure the highest value work moves forward
- Owning the management and coordination of the Operations Roadmap, ensuring there is a clear view of progress, risks, dependencies and decisions, and identifying where plans are off track or outcomes are not landing as intended so the right changes can be made to improve pace and impact
- [stretch] Driving a small number of high impact cross functional initiatives that improve the scalability, efficiency and profitability of Operations (e.g goodwill)
🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…
- You have strong experience in strategy, commercial, transformation, business operations or a similar role in a fast moving environment
- You have a track record of solving complex problems with analytical rigour, sound judgement and a strong bias to action
- You bring strong commercial acumen and are comfortable using performance and financial insight to support strategic decisions
- You are comfortable working on P&L analysis, business cases, investment questions and broader unit economics
- You are an excellent strategic thinker, able to see the bigger picture while also getting into the detail when needed
- You are a strong communicator, especially in writing, and can turn complexity into clear and compelling recommendations for senior stakeholders
- You are comfortable leading cross functional work and driving alignment without direct authority
- You thrive in ambiguity and are able to adapt quickly as priorities evolve
- You are highly organised, able to manage multiple priorities and keep focus on what matters most
🌈 The application journey has 4 key steps
- Application questions
- Recruiter Call - 30 mins
- 1st stage Technical Interview - 1 hour
- and if you pass the 1st stage, a 2nd stage interview with case study.
🙌 What’s in it for you
💰 £92,400 - £118,225
📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)
🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. ➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.
Our average process takes around 4 weeks but we'll always work around your availability. You'll have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process, but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact ninaebanksmetcalfe@monzo.com
🤖 We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.
We shall close this role once we feel we have enough applications, so please apply quickly!
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Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report.
We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊