Salary range
£57,546 - £63,940
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Agile Working Options
Job Share; Hybrid Working
Job description
JOB TITLE: Service Designer (12-Month FTC)
LOCATION(S): Halifax
SALARY: £57,546 - £63,940
HOURS: Full-Time
DURATION: 12-Months Fixed-Term Contract
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least
two days per week, or 40% of our time in the office. You'll need to be in the Halifax office at least one day a week, and we can consider Leeds or Manchester for the other day per week.
About this opportunity
We're on the hunt for a creative trailblazer to craft seamless experiences for our customers and champion the art of Service Design across the Group.
If you're passionate about your craft and love sharing your expertise, this is the place for you! You'll be advocating for Service Design with product teams, pioneering new ways of working together, and helping to evolve the craft. Let's push the boundaries and create something amazing together!
It’ll be your role to:
Work effectively and confidently as part of agile teams to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes, and define scope.
Shape strategic initiatives ensuring we are led by colleague, customer and market insight when creating or enhancing our propositions and services.
Attend workshops and discussions with stakeholders, making sure the business context, needs and risks are properly understood, and that key decisions are well informed.
Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders to manage expectations and incorporate multiple perspectives when defining solutions.
Support the research and document current and future state services.
Make good design decisions, bring the user perspective to the forefront and challenge the validity of constraints.
Take ownership for your own development.
Collaborate closely with other designers, product owners, and engineers.
Be an active member of the design community to share knowledge, create ideas, and embed principles of design across a range of product, service, and customer journeys.
What you'll need
We’re looking for someone with a highly motivated, proactive, and driven approach to achieving individual and collective goals coupled with the ability to help cultivate an environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement.
You’ll have strong relationship building skills and an innovative approach to problem solving and will be credible when dealing with senior audiences; with the confidence to provide a healthy challenge where appropriate.
You’ll also possess calmness and resilience when under pressure, and the ability to proactively identify new or potential risks and respond to emerging priorities.
Additionally you’ll have strong communication skills; effective in communicating ideas, issues, and implications to senior, technical and non - technical audiences and will have experience in research and design thinking methods.
You'll be comfortable with ambiguity and use your initiative to dig into the problem
You'll be pragmatic tackling complex problems within ecosystems
Strong stakeholder management skills
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
Discretionary annual performance-related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today and let’s create something extraordinary together!