Hours:
35 hours per week Monday to Friday offering Hybrid working however a weekly presence is required In our Head Office in Skipton
Closing Date:
Fri, 7 Jun 2024
We’re on an excitingchange journey at Skipton, to create an organisation wide agile capability that unlocks value for our customers and colleagues. If you’re the type of person that likes tolead from the front, to reinvent change, then this may be the job for you!
Who Are We?
Not just another building society. Not just another job.
We're the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us a bit different is that we're a mutual organisation. We don't have shareholders;we're owned by our members.We are part of the Skipton Group which is made up of Skipton Building Society; Connells Group, the largest UK estate agency and property services provider; offshore finance capability through Skipton International; Skipton Business Finance and Jade Software Corporation
Our colleagues say Skipton's a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do.
Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we'll help you take the next step towards a better future.
You will lead our Change function, approximately 100 in size, the team owns change practice and leads from the front on our agile journey. The team operate at the heart of the organisations change agenda, working in partnership with our Homes and Money businesses, technology teams, our people team, finance and risk teams on a diverse portfolio of change.
What’s In It ForYou?
Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.
We have a range of other benefits available to you including;
1. Annual discretionary bonus scheme
2. 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days
3. Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days
4. Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
5. Colleague mortgage (conditions apply)
6. Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car
7. A commitment to training and development
8. Private medical insurance for all our colleagues
9. 3 paid volunteering days per annum
10. Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups
11. We care about your health and wellbeing – we provide a range of benefits that support this including cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership
What Will YouBe Doing?
You will lead on shaping our change best practices and methodologies, our agile journey and be an integral part of driving strategy through to execution. You will shape how we deliver against our strategic ambitions, review end to end change processes to best enable value creation. You will own and develop our agile ways of working, co-create our new lean portfolio management approach to ensure our corporate plan is delivered effectively. You will lead our change function (approx. 100 people), providing clear leadership, vision and priorities to improve our change capability. You will work in partnership with senior leaders across the organisation, helping them understand how to translate ideas into achieving business value.
What Do We Need FromYou?
We are looking for someone who has a track record of creating and shaping change functions, implementing and embedding agile ways of working as well as being able to support, challenge and influence senior stakeholders across the organisation as we mature our change capability.