Planning and Comms Lead

Planning and Comms Lead

Locations: Norwich and York

Starting salary: c. £75,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

Do you love driving impactful change across strategic initiatives?

This is a great job for someone who thrives in complex change environments and is passionate about enabling successful programme delivery. It would suit someone with strong change/transformation expertise, ideally with experience in portfolio or programme management, who’s ready to influence and guide high-profile initiatives across the IWR and wider Group technology portfolio

A bit about the job:

We’re looking for someone to lead the Programme planning and communications workstreams for a major transformation project. This programme is focused on transforming our Group technology platforms whilst ensuring that our systems remain supported and providing our customers with a high level of service across our business. You’ll help our Programme workstreams prepare for and embed these changes, working across applications modernisation and Shadow IT simplification. Your role will be to keep things running smoothly while we evolve. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in guiding the team through transitional periods and driving project success. 

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills. 
• Proficient in programme planning
• Experience in change delivery within a high-volume environment
• Knowledge of regulatory compliance in financial services sector. 
• Experience with managing communications internally and externally  

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary c. £75,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100 or send an email to amber.britton@aviva.com