Head of Planning and Readiness

Head of Planning and Readiness

London Salary Circa £140,000

National Salary Circa £120,000

Be at the heart of one of the most daring and sophisticated transformations weve ever tackled. Our Insurance, Wealth and Retirement business is looking for a Head of Transformation Planning & Readiness to coordinate our significant portfolio of initiatives, ensuring they are scheduled in a safe and efficient manner and land well when implemented.

This is a great job for someone to use their experience, determination, and gravitas to understand and guide an extremely complicated delivery plan. If you are an expert in this field, wed love to hear from you!

A bit about the job:

Leading a small team, you will have responsibility for development and maintenance of a comprehensive Transformation Schedule. This schedule will be informed by dependencies, inflight & planned change initiatives, release management, operational capacity to support and absorb change, third party delivery plans, regulatory commitments, and other corporate initiatives.

You will also:

• Set out planning standards across our business. Assure that actual delivery is in line with the agreed schedule and act where divergence occurs
• Enhance and maintain our business readiness mechanisms
• Build on and enhance how we engage and plan for Subject Matter Expert (SME) engagement into our initiatives
• Ensure we have a quarterly process to stand back and see if our agenda is still achievable
• Articulate plans and roadmaps in a way that is simple, insightful and executive friendly

Skills and experience were looking for:

• A planning and scheduling expert, someone who has done this before and is familiar with industry standard methodology
• A pragmatist that also recognises the strong discipline that is required across a complicated and interrelated portfolio
• Successful delivery of change in a sophisticated business environment
• Exceptional partner management skills coupled with senior level influencing, relationship management and troubleshooting
• Proven strong commercial awareness and analytical skills

What youll 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.

• London salary Circa £140,000 and National salary Circa £120,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 25% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Avivas.
• 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 carers 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:

Were inclusive and welcome everyone we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if youre in a job share just apply as a pair.

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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