About the role
The Practice Manager will be instrumental in leading the People agenda. The role will be responsible for ensuring that the Practice has a highly skilled and motivated workforce with an emphasis on Talent Management Development and Coaching to ensure people are engaged and performing at their optimal level. The role will focus on developing capability to operate within agile product teams, ensuring personal growth and stretch opportunities are realised to deliver effective talent and succession pipelines.
Your role is pivotal in defining goals and objectives; and in articulating a reimagined future state enabled by innovative use of technology and agile ways of working.
You'll work closely with the CIDO Leadership to deliver the future state, with a focus on early and incremental release of value by creating an inclusive environment where people feel safe to speak up, voice concerns and suggest ideas. Your strong planning, communication, and presentation skills along with your experience in agile ways of working will be critical to your engagement with stakeholders, and to the success of your practice.
Our benefits include:
- 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Personal pension with matched contributions
- Life assurance (6 times annual salary)
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We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
About you
You are an authentic ‘servant-leader' who takes responsibility for ensuring the team's success ahead of your own needs. You take a coaching approach and empower others to make decisions that lead to great outcomes.
You are passionate about ensuring the business delivers a great customer service and experience. Seeking to understand how decisions impact the end user and asking questions to gain insight into the customer perspective and experience.
You create a culture of continuous improvement. You learn from mistakes and use the experience to change how you and the team respond to similar situations in the future.
Intellectually curious; you encourage ideas and challenge, through innovative thought leadership.
Highly self-aware and emotionally intelligent, you understand your impact on others and take time to understand all colleagues and help them to operate at their best.
With great resilience you maintain energy and enthusiasm and embrace situations positively to motivate and inspire.
You will have technical skills and experience in software engineering, and have a passion for leading Engineers in .NET, Java or iOS.
Your are able to promote and coach the understanding of Agile Practices and Values; coaching, developing and inspiring individuals to drive great results and outcomes.
Able to quantify resource requirements, measure and communicate proposed outcomes, value, benefits and risks.
Able to negotiate and influence both delivery teams and business partners to achieve target outcomes.
Strong belief in culture of Learning and Continuous Improvement, using front of market techniques to enhance performance and operation.
Takes personal responsibility for identifying and carrying out own development needs to improve own performance.
An advocate for career paths, identifying development opportunities and an an ability to incubate and grow the talent pool.
About us
As a mutual, we've always worked together to improve the lives of others. As one of the largest building societies in the UK, over 3,000 of us share that goal, in our branches and Head Office. Our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and total support for our wellbeing.
We're serious about race, age, faith, disability, sexual orientation, and equity for all. By being yourself, you'll make us stronger.
You can build so much more than a career. Come and make a difference in our Society, that's been voted a ‘Great Place to Work' by our team.
Flexibility and why it matters
We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we'll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.