Salary: to £85,000 25% annual bonus + PMI + benefits package
* Join our Business Architecture team in our Strategy department
* Work with multiple internal functions and projects
* Hybrid role with 80% homeworking and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon
About the role
NFU Mutual is going through an exciting period of transformative change, with many interesting and forward-thinking change programmes in flight within the business such as core systems changes and multichannel reviews. This is a fantastic time to join the organisation.
We currently have an opportunity for an experienced Lead Business Architect to join NFU Mutual, Which? Insurance Brand of the Year for the 3rd consecutive year, where you’ll work across a range of internal functions and have senior stakeholder engagement. You’ll be part of our strategy department, that works directly with the Chief Executive Officer to help understand and deliver the strategy of the whole enterprise.
The role of our Lead Business Architects is to align the organisation to the effective delivery of strategy. This includes the provision of professional business architecture and design authority services to business areas, change programmes, and across the organisation and portfolio. This involves shaping, prioritising, and governing change initiatives needed for the delivery of company and divisional strategies.
Working alongside fellow Lead Business Architects, your role will focus predominately on defining and aligning Target Operating Models (TOMs), working closely with Divisions and HR.
You will also lead and shape critical strategic change elements by supporting the delivery of early thinking, to help understand overall target state implications and drive out clarity on optimum scope and sequencing.
About you
With excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, you will demonstrate a consultancy style approach to your work and interactions. You’ll be a strategic thinker, comfortable with ambiguity, confident in reviewing and understanding technical information, with the ability to translate and present this to a non-technical audience at ex-co level. You’ll be able to prioritise and communicate what is needed and challenge back where necessary. It is desirable that you have a Business Architecture or Enterprise Architecture qualification e.g. TOGAF.
To be considered for this role, you must also have experience of:
* Demonstrable Business Architecture deliverables in a large complex environment
* Defining and developing target operating models
* Business transformation and business change life cycle leadership
* Developing and working with capability models, operating models, organisational design or process re-engineering
* Developing, implementing & integrating frameworks to capture and share structured thinking, options and recommendations
* Enterprise Capability assessing, mapping, maturing
Benefits and Rewards
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:
* Salary up to £85,000 depending on experience
* Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
* Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
* 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
* A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
* Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
* £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
* Health and wellbeing plan- cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
* Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
* Employee Volunteering - volunteering in the community for one day each year
* Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
* Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
* Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
Working at NFU Mutual
We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.
We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.
We are a leading provider of General Insurance and Financial Services. From our strong farming roots, we’ve grown to become a UK-wide organisation, turning over £1 billion annually. Yet success hasn’t gone to our heads. We’re proud to remain completely customer-focused, down-to-earth, and committed to the rural communities we’ve grown from.
Our ethos - of trust, respect, and personal service - lies at the heart of all we do and has seen us build an enviable reputation for exceptional member loyalty. Though we’ve been in business for over 110 years, we have big ambitions for the future. And that’s why we’re looking for talented people to join our growing organisation. Talented people like you.
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