Digital Research and Performance Lead

St. James’s Place; Cirencester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services firm in Cirencester is seeking an Experience Lead to shape user-centered digital strategies. The ideal candidate will have expertise in user research methods, strong presentation skills, and the ability to analyze data for informed decision-making. This role offers a hybrid work environment and competitive benefits including performance bonuses and medical insurance.

Benefits

Performance bonuses

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

10% non-contributory pension

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and analyzing qualitative and quantitative research methods.
• Ability to present user research findings to stakeholders.
• Experience working in Financial Services or a regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research to uncover user needs for digital offerings.
• Deliver presentations to inspire change and inform decisions.
• Evaluate qualitative and quantitative data for insights.

Skills

User research methods

Presentation skills

Analytics and synthesis

Understanding of user research data

Tools

Qualtrics

Google Analytics

Job description

Posted on: 24/11/2025 – Application Deadline: 16/12/2025

Are you ready tochart your own career path? With our refreshed strategy, we’re building on our rich heritage and transforming our business to be more scalable and efficient, unlocking the capabilities needed for future success.This includes significantly investing in technology, streamlining the way we work and creating an environment where colleagues feel engaged, empowered and accountable; where they can show up, speak up and perform - because we believe in the difference our work makes.

At a glance:

Location: Cirencester Office

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Employment Type: Permanent

Seniority: Mid-Senior Level

The Architecture, Design & Experience Division is responsible for shaping the strategic design of SJP’s technology, processes, and customer experiences to ensure all change initiatives are aligned to business priorities and deliver meaningful, client-centric outcomes. The division brings together architecture, service and user experience design, and business analysis into a centre of excellence that guides projects from idea to execution. It ensures designs and solutions are focussed on customer outcomes, quality and consistency of experience across SJP's digital and operational landscape, while remaining well governed, cost effective and scalable.

The Design & Improvement team leads SJP’s user-centred design approach, ensuring that services, systems, and experiences are built around the needs of clients, advisers, and internal users. By combining service design, user experience (UX), business improvement, and digital insight, the team tackles inefficiencies and enhances service quality across the business. They shape strategy through research, testing, and data-driven insight, and ensure that SJP’s digital products are inclusive, intuitive, and continuously evolving. Working closely with architecture, analysis, and strategic programmes, they drive customer-centric innovation that improves outcomes and reduces complexity across the organisation.

As Experience Lead you are responsible for helping define and drive the future of our transformation. You will reveal what our users need from our digital offering by conducting research, working with cross-functional teams, and performing analysis on satisfaction and effort score reporting.

These responsibilities also include inspiring change, delivering oral and written presentations, evaluating qualitative and quantitative data, and helping Product and Service owners make informed, commercial and experience driven decisions.

What you’ll be doing:

• Demonstrable experience in using qualitative and quantitative research
• Proven ability of analytics and synthesis research
• Presentation Skills - Expert PowerPoint creator and presenter to sell concepts simply to a variety of decision makers
• Display a community focus/ CX approach to research, insights, trends and ideas

Who we’re looking for:

An experience professional who can inspire change, deliver oral and written presentations, evaluate qualitative and quantitative data, and helping Product and Service owners make informed, commercial and experience driven decisions.

• Proven experience of designing, facilitating and analysing a wide range of qualitative and quantitative user research methods; including workshops, focus groups and remote testing
• Ability to understanding user research data but also able to story tell and make data driven decisions
• Proven experience of presenting user research findings in a wide variety of formats and contexts to stakeholders.
• Ability to speak with credibility on analytics, experimentation, and user research.
• Experience in using Qualtrics & Qualtrics XM will hold a distinct advantage
• Experience working with Google Analytics
• Experience of working in Financial Services or a highly regulated industry

What's in it for you?

We reward youfor the work you do, whether that’s through our discretionary annual bonus scheme that reflects bothpersonal and company performance, competitive annual leave allowance (28 daysplus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days), oronline rewards platform with a variety of discounts.
We also havebenefits to support whatever stage of life you are in, including:

• Competitive parental leave (26 weeks full pay)
• Private medical insurance (optional taxable benefit)
• 10% non-contributory pension (increasing with length of service)

Reasonable Adjustments
We're an equalopportunities employer and want to ensure our recruitment process is accessibleand inclusive for all, if you require reasonable adjustment(s) at any stageplease let us know by emailing us at [e-mail]
Research tells usthat applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put offfrom applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been onan extended career-break. If you think you would be a good match for this role andcan demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless ofwhether you tick every box.

What's next?

If you're excitedabout this role and believe you have the skills and experience we're lookingfor, we'd love to hear from you! Please submit an application by clicking‘apply’ below and our team will be in touch.
As a businessregulated by the FCA we would advise you to familiarise yourself with theconduct regulations and in particular consumer duty obligations prior to aninterview with SJP.