Lead Business Architect Stratford-upon-Avon

Salary: to £85,% annual bonus + PMI + benefits package

• Join our Business Architecture team in our Strategy department
• Work with multiple internal functions and projects
• Hybrid role with 80% homeworking and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon

NFU Mutual is going through an exciting period of transformative change, with many interesting and forward-thinking change programmes in flight within the business such as core systems changes and multichannel reviews, this is a fantastic time to join the organisation.

We currently have an opportunity for an experienced Lead Business Architect to join NFU Mutual, Which? Insurance Brand of the Year for the 3rd consecutive year, where you'll work across a range of internal functions and have senior stakeholder engagement. You'll be part of our strategy department, that works directly with the Chief Executive Officer, to help understand and deliver the strategy of the whole enterprise.

The role of our Lead Business Architects is to align the organisation to the effective delivery of strategy. This includes the provision of professional business architecture and design authority services to business areas, change programmes and across the organisation and portfolio. This involves shaping, prioritising and governing change initiatives needed for the delivery of company and divisional strategies.

Working alongside fellow Lead Business Architects your role will focus predominately on defining and aligning Target Operating Models (TOMs), working closely with Divisions and HR.

You will also lead and shape critical strategic change elements by supporting the delivery of early thinking, to help understand overall target state implications and drive out clarity on optimum scope and sequencing.

With excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, you will demonstrate a consultancy style approach to your work and interactions. You'll be a strategic thinker, comfortable with ambiguity, confident in reviewing and understanding technical information, with the ability to translate and present this to a non-technical audience at ex-co level. You'll be able to prioritise and communicate what is needed and challenge back where necessary. It is desirable that you have a Business Architecture or Enterprise Architecture qualification e.g. TOGAF.

To be considered for this role, you must also have experience of:

• Demonstrable Business Architecture deliverables in a large complex environment
• Defining and developing target operating models
• Business transformation and business change life cycle leadership
• Developing and working with capability models, operating models, organisational design or process re-engineering
• Developing, implementing & integrating frameworks to capture and share structured thinking, options and recommendations
• Enterprise Capability assessing, mapping, maturing

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary up to £85,000 depending on experience
• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership - subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering - volunteering in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.