Director of Product and Delivery

About The Role Team – Prospect, Direct & Life Adviser Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in any of the Vitality offices (Bournemouth, London or Stockport). Full time hours We are happy to discuss flexible working! Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Stakeholder Management
• Communicating with Impact
• Resilience

What this role is all about: Are you a visionary leader with a passion for driving innovation and delivering exceptional customer experiences? We are seeking a dynamic and experienced professional who can advance product and engineering execution teams to deliver on strategic change initiatives that drive significant business value.Key Actions

• Strategic Leadership - Oversee all initiatives (epics, features, stories, and projects) from inception to delivery. Articulate strategic requirements, define concepts for new ideas, prioritize demand, manage delivery backlogs, allocate resources, and control budgets.

• Product and Engineering Leadership - Manage product and engineering execution teams to deliver on strategic change initiatives that drive significant business value. Ensure effective design and delivery of innovative products and exceptional customer experiences.
• Stakeholder Engagement - Engage and cooperate with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment on strategic objectives.
• Technology Ownership - Own the enabling technology stack, take full accountability for outcomes, and partner with an IT Application Director to deliver world-class technology solutions.
• Agile Practices - Manage teams and squads in line with SAFe Agile practice
• Collaboration - Work closely with other teams and stakeholders across the organization to gather input on design initiatives.

What do you need to thrive?

• Established Executive Profile - Possess a strong reputation and profile, with the gravitas and presence to champion the strategic priorities of the business.
• Customer Experience Intuition - Have a strong feel for what constitutes a brilliant customer experience and be obsessed with enhancing the customer journey.
• Drive, Tenacity, and Urgency - Exemplify our values of drive, tenacity, and urgency. Be relentless in pushing every product or process for brilliance.
• R&D Methodology - Be comfortable working in a small team with senior executive stakeholders and R&D to develop solutions. Iterate at pace, deal with ambiguity, and find elegant solutions to complex problems.
• Effectiveness Mindset - Move at pace, make hard choices to ensure efficiency and effectiveness, and understand the importance of end-to-end accountability.
• Leadership Skills - Be a highly capable mentor of people, with high emotional intelligence (EQ), intellectual capability (IQ), and low ego. Collaborate effectively and build inspired and engaged teams.
• Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, with 15+ years in R&D, product management, portfolio change, operations, or continuous improvement.
• Knowledge - Working knowledge of the SAFe Agile methodology would be highly beneficial.

If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role where you can make a significant impact, we would love to hear from you.So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities! If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w e will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.About The Company We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!Diversity & Inclusion At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.Vitality’s approach to sustainability Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early.