Aviva UK are now looking for a new Commercial System and Transformation (CS&T) Lead for our UK-wide CS&T Team.

Our CS&T Leads supervise a team of consultants & are responsible for delivering the CS&T portfolio of change in line with business strategy. This person will focus on people/cultural, business process and systems & technology change - leading projects and ensuring delivery meets objectives on time, on budget, and adoption is fully utilised and balanced.

We believe this is a great role because of the dynamism in our team, the growth strategy Aviva has right now and the spectrum of projects this team works on (digital journeys, new systems for schemes, new underwriting workbench projects, systems thinking, and also harmonising our IT landscape. The role involves lots of London market work and is backed by the resources and support of the UK’s largest insurer.

Aviva uses “smart-working” now, and the person in this role can be based anywhere in the UK, as long as they are comfortable regularly travelling to our any of offices 2/3 times a week and occasionally to other offices for workshops.

The role’s duties & responsibilities:

• Leading a team of Systems & Transformation Consultants (circa 6 consultants)

• Acting as a role model in supporting & energising teams to build confidence in their abilities to deliver good outcomes through coaching & mentoring

• Driving our change strategy, working with key stakeholders across the relevant business areas

• Supporting the Senior Lead of CS&T Change in delivering our transformation agenda

• Owning, constructing, coordinating and delivering programmes of change, optimally and efficiently

• Building effective working relationships and influencing key programme stakeholders and sponsors

Skills & experiences required:

• Experience in managing and leading change project teams

• Experience & knowledge of change/project management methodologies & tools, including Agile and Waterfall approaches

• Experience of developing & using delivery frameworks for portfolio/programmes/projects

• To have and to build on experience of working collaboratively within large, sophisticated organisations

• Background of strong commercial business acumen to create and deliver business cases

• A love of learning, grounded in curiosity, open-mindedness and a drive to make things better by understanding them more completely

• Professional level of accreditations (e.g. Prince 2) would be great to see

What will you get for this role?

• A salary of circa £75,000 depending on location, skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family (some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Daniel Hopchet a call on 0121 234 7625 or send an email to Daniel.Hopchet@Aviva.com.

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.