Senior IT Business Partner

Senior IT Business Partner 

Up to £80,000 for Perth, Bristol or Norwich locations 

Up to £100,000 for London 

Are you passionate about driving technology innovation and building strong partnerships across a large, matrixed business? Do you enjoy transparent planning, budgeting, and performance reporting? And do you consider yourself an inspirational technology leader? If so, we’d love to hear from you!  
 
As a Senior IT Business Partner, you’ll work closely with our General Insurance (GI) division to deliver end-to-end technology solutions. You’ll be a trusted advisor, helping shape our IT strategy and ensuring our services meet business needs, alongside exercising your excellent leadership skills to develop and motivate a team of Technology focused PMs and BAs. 

A bit about the job:  

This role exists to connect our GI business with the right technology solutions! You’ll lead a team of up to 7 and be part of a larger collaborative business-partnering department that supports strategic planning and service delivery, representing IT in leadership meetings and helping shape our 3 - 5year technology roadmap, driving service management, operational stability, and resilience.  
 

Everyday you will act as a ‘mini-CIO’ working closely with senior stakeholders to understand their technology-related requirements and provide expert advice - your work will directly impact operational resilience, customer journeys, and innovation and you’ll be accountable for delivering measurable outcomes and driving continuous improvement! 

Skills and experience we’re looking for: 

• Exposure to working as a Senior IT professional within a large, matrixed Financial Services, Consultancy or similar corporate environment - GI experience would be highly desirable!  

• Strong leadership experience i.e., recent team management experience within technology business partnering   

• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills (up to MD level), as well as the ability to collaborate and deliver through other teams 

• Technology & innovation focused mindset i.e., keeping your finger on the pulse in relation to IT trends and practices.  

• Knowledge of “software as a service” within a commercial business 

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. 

• Salary of up to £100,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications) 

• Bonus opportunity of 12% (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 

• 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. 

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here 

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

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please contact daisy.holmes1@aviva.com.