Do you want to help shape the direction of the UK's largest insurance company? There couldn't be a better time to join us, as we work to bring our new business strategy to life across our UK businesses - Aviva Life, Aviva Savings & Retirement and Aviva General Insurance.   

Working with our CEO’s and senior business leaders, you will have the opportunity to lead on target operating model development and business capability planning to support key strategic initiatives.  Your main responsibilities will include; target operating model design, capability analysis, major programme support and executive consultancy. 

An exciting and fast-moving area we get involved in solving all kinds of key business questions. No two months are alike, and we don’t know what sort of projects may come up but things we have worked in the last 12 months are:

• Designing shared service models across our 3 new UK businesses

• Shaping the high-level design of our new ‘Life’ and ‘Investments, Savings and Retirement’ businesses

• looking at the capability development needed for Aviva to deliver our Strategy

• helping to prioritise our transformation roadmap.

The current team are based in Bristol, but location is flexible. Some travel will be needed depending on the project and the location of the work (most travel is London based).

Duties & responsibilities include:

• Create and clearly articulate Target Operating Models and support operating model challenges

• Develop business capability models and business capability analysis

• Understand and communicate required Operating Model changes to achieve strategy and plans - articulate the route map to realise these changes.

• Lead key projects / strategic initiatives ensuring facts, insight and big picture thinking drive the evaluation of strategic initiatives

• Provide business architecture input to strategic projects

• Support Business Architecture governance activities and risk management by clearly documenting business ownership and accountability models

• Provide architecture consultancy and business partnering to CEO’s, MDs and other senior leaders

Skills & experience we'd like to see:

• Experience of delivering target operating models and capability analysis

• Ideally a background in consultancy

• Strong strategic thinking, analytical/modelling and deductive reasoning skills

• Very strong communication skills, particularly visual communications 

• Experience in writing Executive level papers and presentations

• Ability to act impartially on behalf of multiple stakeholders

• Ability to define and represent architectural solutions that balance short- and long-term needs

• Collaborative approach to driving activity across multiple teams, without direct control of resources

• Strong commercial acumen, including the ability to articulate the financial impact of given strategic decisions

What will you get for this role?

• A competitive salary depending on 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 responsibility, 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 Daniela Krol a call on 0121 234 7660 or send an email to daniela.krol@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.