Change Delivery Product Owner

Aviva; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in the UK is looking for a Change Delivery Product Owner to manage change activities and support strategic initiatives. The successful candidate will work with internal and external teams, ensuring high standards in project delivery. This role requires expertise in change management, stakeholder engagement, and familiarity with tools like JIRA and SCRUM. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity of 10%

Generous pension scheme

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private Medical Benefit

Discounts on products

Free Aviva shares opportunity

Qualifications

• Professional Product Owner or change management experience in Financial Services.
• Desirable experience in the UK protection market.
• Strong stakeholder management and senior influence skills.

Responsibilities

• Support prioritisation and delivery of change activities.
• Manage change through project lifecycle with IT and external teams.
• Ensure compliance with Aviva's risk tolerance and standards.

Skills

Change management expertise

Stakeholder management

Experience with JIRA

Agile methodologies

Financial services industry knowledge

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Kanban

SCRUM

Job description

Overview

Change Delivery Product Owner – Salary circa £50,000

Locations: York / Sheffield / Bristol

This is a fantastic opportunity for a change professional to support the prioritisation and delivery of change activity within the Protection Propositions team. This will involve efficiently managing change through the project lifecycle and collaborating with multiple teams within Aviva and external 3rd parties to enhance Aviva’s Protection proposition.

You will work alongside Aviva’s IT and change teams to provide business priorities and support our platform and systems teams to manage day to day trading. The role also involves looking to the future, considering how change practice might evolve and the skills that will be required from team members.

You will support senior management on the new propositions implementation from the story identification to the delivery to maximising post launch outcomes (leveraging all necessary teams internally including innovation, marketing, product, IT and SME expertise).

You will ensure change is conducted within Aviva's risk tolerance and delivery framework, supporting IT and Change colleagues to demand the highest standards from change partners and suppliers. The role will also require forward thinking on the future of change strategy, including the roles and skills required and how future technologies may change the systems and process operated today.

Responsibilities

• Support the prioritisation and delivery of change activity within the Protection Propositions team.
• Manage change through the project lifecycle and collaborate with multiple teams within Aviva and external third parties.
• Optimise the use of change methodology and best practice; work with IT and change teams to provide business priorities and support platform and systems teams.
• Support senior management on new propositions implementation from story identification to delivery and maximising post‑launch outcomes.
• Ensure change is conducted within Aviva's risk tolerance and delivery framework; demand high standards from change partners and suppliers.
• Think forward about the future of change strategy, including roles, skills, and how future technologies may change systems and processes.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• A professional Product Owner, and/or previous experience of change management within the Financial Services industry.
• Experience of the UK protection market is desirable.
• Experience of tools and methods such as JIRA, Confluence, Kanban and SCRUM, ideally matched with AGILE, and change management qualifications.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence up to senior management levels. Able to harness strong relationships across departments, working with a broad range of colleagues every day.
• Commercially capable, you will be experienced owning a change backlog, managing and making priority calls to maximise returns on investment (ROI).

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.
• Starting salary circa £50,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary. 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
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• 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.

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We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please give Alannah Burgess a call on 07391381173 or email [e-mail].