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Senior Change and Transformation Manager - Business Readiness

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This position offers an excellent opportunity for an individual prepared to lead transformation initiatives and make a significant impact across testing and business readiness. Ideal candidates are experienced senior managers with a background in finance or transformation, seeking their next professional challenge. If you excel at guiding teams through change and thrive in dynamic, shifting environments, this role could be an ideal match for you.

What the job involves

We’re looking for someone to lead Finance’s business readiness for a major transformation project. This programme is simplifying how we work and improving customer experiences across our UK Insurance, Wealth & Retirement business. You’ll help our Finance teams prepare for and embed these changes, working across areas like actuarial, tax, data, and payments. 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, maintaining operational stability, and driving project success.

Skills and experience

• Extensive experience in leading large-scale projects and business readiness activities, Experience in a senior management role preferably within finance teams in financial service organizations.
• Exceptional leadership and team management skills, adept at guiding teams through change and effectively communicating with diverse stakeholders.
• Problem-solving aptitude and ability to adapt to evolving situations.
• Knowledge of project management framework, methodologies and tools.

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.

• Starting salary circa £80,000 (depending on location, skills, and experience)
• Bonus opportunity – up to 12% of annual salary
• Generous pension scheme – Aviva contributes up to 14%
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, plus other retail discounts
• £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year
• Parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle – including sustainability options like cycle to work
• 3 paid volunteering days
• Wellbeing support and tools to help you thrive

About inclusion and working at Aviva

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’d 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.

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.

How to apply

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

Employment details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Project Management
• Industries: Insurance

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