Post date 08.05.26 Director, Commercial Delivery (13 month FTC Maternity cover)

The Commercial Director will be responsible for leading the UK Finance Commercial Delivery team covering Events, Training and Commercial Partnerships. The team are responsible for delivering excellent services from global flagship events and 'best in class' training and development opportunities for professionals at all levels across the banking and finance sector (and those connected with the sector), through to developing and maintaining a pipeline of commercial opportunities. There is clinical focus on delivering demonstrable value to members and sustainable commercial revenue growth for UK Finance.

Through the leadership of the Commercial Delivery team, collaboration with colleagues across the business and engagement with members, partners and other stakeholders, the Commercial Director is responsible for ensuring that events, training, commercial partnerships and products are delivered to time and to budget, with both member value and commercial return being optimised.

The opportunity

• With over 300 members across banking and finance and 240 associate members - including many of the most recognised leaders in the technology, legal and advisory sectors - UK Finance is uniquely placed to bring together leading experts and services providers across regulation, conduct and financial understanding. Combining a strong industry reputation for high quality content and services, with a purpose to drive capability and professionalism across the sector, UK Finance sets the benchmark for training, events and additional services while offering member firms unrivalled value for money.
• The portfolio includes workshops, virtual and in-person technical conferences, peer-to-peer learning experiences, qualifications, roundtables, lunches, dinners, networking events, on-demand learning and webinars for thousands of delegates each year. In addition, UK Finance offers invaluable services to members though our relationships with trusted partnerships and through the provision of our own products and services.

Key responsibilities

• To inspire, develop and lead an established team of 18 with a view to maintaining and evolving a sustainable and scalable business models to create member value and commercial return for UK Finance.
• To embed the commercial strategy, development, delivery of creative and content programmes across the learning, events and commercial partnership portfolio.
• Leveraging the skills, scale, capacity and capability of external providers and trusted partners where appropriate to enable the delivery of our ambitious portfolio.
• To set, proactively monitor and review budgeting, pricing and resourcing across the portfolio, and to operate effectively and efficiently within the UK Finance controls framework.