Prestigious opportunity for a Network Solutions Design Engineer (Aruba) with a global leader in the provision of cutting-edge connectivity and digital solutions, delivering world-class broadband, mobile and network services.Our customer solutions design team lead the way in implementing complex Voice, Network, Wireless and Security Solutions across a wide array of vendors such as Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper, Aruba and Microsoft using technologies such as SD-WAN, SD-A, ISE, ACI, Webex, MS Teams & NextGen FWs. We are inviting you to join our success story based in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol or London in a hybrid role 3 days a week in the office and 2 days remotely. Taking High Level Designs into the Low-Level detail at the Post-Sale stage, implementing the solution followed by thorough testing before handing over to the relevant support or managed service teams. You will be responsible for: - Capturing detailed customer technical requirements and translating them into technical solutions design Management and delivery of the technical direction of the solutions design Managing the review and validation processes for both new and in-life products and services Managing customer solutions design engagement, statement of work creation and 3rd party deliverables Facilitating strong customer relationships at a senior level Customer migration planning and implementation Resolving complex solution and service issues, leading root cause analysis and escalation Identification of potential risks, implementing controls and mitigations Ensuring delivery of thought leadership in complex bids and agreeing a strategic approach If you possess a combination of the following skills, then LET'S TALK! Experience in low level and high level design of complex network solutions Proven experience in network design, ideally with enterprise or public sector clients. Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills HPE Aruba certified to Associate level (changed to Associate level) with a solid working knowledge of the following would be highly advantageous: Aruba AOS-S Switches Aruba AOS-8 WLAN Aruba AOS-CX Switches Aruba AOS-10 WLAN Aruba Central Aruba ClearPass Aruba SD-WAN Knowledge of Cisco networking technologies advantageous: Traditional Cisco WAN Traditional Cisco LAN Cisco Wireless Cisco SDA Catalyst Centre Cisco ISE In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing training and career development, 10% on target bonus, an enviable pension scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages and much more. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
Apr 01, 2026
Full time
Prestigious opportunity for a Network Solutions Design Engineer (Aruba) with a global leader in the provision of cutting-edge connectivity and digital solutions, delivering world-class broadband, mobile and network services.Our customer solutions design team lead the way in implementing complex Voice, Network, Wireless and Security Solutions across a wide array of vendors such as Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper, Aruba and Microsoft using technologies such as SD-WAN, SD-A, ISE, ACI, Webex, MS Teams & NextGen FWs. We are inviting you to join our success story based in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol or London in a hybrid role 3 days a week in the office and 2 days remotely. Taking High Level Designs into the Low-Level detail at the Post-Sale stage, implementing the solution followed by thorough testing before handing over to the relevant support or managed service teams. You will be responsible for: - Capturing detailed customer technical requirements and translating them into technical solutions design Management and delivery of the technical direction of the solutions design Managing the review and validation processes for both new and in-life products and services Managing customer solutions design engagement, statement of work creation and 3rd party deliverables Facilitating strong customer relationships at a senior level Customer migration planning and implementation Resolving complex solution and service issues, leading root cause analysis and escalation Identification of potential risks, implementing controls and mitigations Ensuring delivery of thought leadership in complex bids and agreeing a strategic approach If you possess a combination of the following skills, then LET'S TALK! Experience in low level and high level design of complex network solutions Proven experience in network design, ideally with enterprise or public sector clients. Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills HPE Aruba certified to Associate level (changed to Associate level) with a solid working knowledge of the following would be highly advantageous: Aruba AOS-S Switches Aruba AOS-8 WLAN Aruba AOS-CX Switches Aruba AOS-10 WLAN Aruba Central Aruba ClearPass Aruba SD-WAN Knowledge of Cisco networking technologies advantageous: Traditional Cisco WAN Traditional Cisco LAN Cisco Wireless Cisco SDA Catalyst Centre Cisco ISE In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing training and career development, 10% on target bonus, an enviable pension scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages and much more. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
Account Director needed to join our office in UK. The opportunity: If you are already a Client or Account Director or have the consultancy led ability to move into leading world class solutions for a top tier client, then read on. As a Client Director you will have full accountability for running multiple client accounts providing world class solutions for leading brands and retailers. You will have full responsibility of P&L for multi-million-pound projects across commerce, data, and tech portfolios. This role will give the right candidate the opportunity to lead and grow key accounts for well-known brands and retailers taking full ownership and demonstrating thought leadership to add real value to our clients. What you'll be doing: Manage P&L £5 - £10 m. C-level/senior manager client engagement. Manage engagements with leading UK and International brands. Undertake regular business travel (domestic and international) to client sites and internal offices. You will be accountable for all services into the client and manage a team of skilled professionals delivering Digital services to our clients. Day to day you will be working with your account team to deliver projects that create immediate value and help define the right digital future for our clients. Accountable for the overall revenue growth, client satisfaction, new program implementation and adaptation Achieve annual sales revenue targets and other goals for key accounts. Own and manage the commercial relationship with the customer including contracts for consultancy and programme delivery along with clear and defined SLA management within support. Form close working relationships with all stakeholders, team members and cross-functional support groups to ensure VML and client teams deliver the best outcomes possible for the client. What we want from you: Experience of delivering large projects and change programmes. Strong digital CX experience - guiding and advising teams Previous Client Services role or senior role within IT or a Digital Experience/CX agency Commercial experience of owning a P&L Value led approach for clients. This includes understanding clients' needs and defining their roadmap. Strong stakeholder and organisational skills, entrepreneurial attitude, proactive business style Up to date with market trends and able to advise clients on appropriate strategies. Know-how required to ensure we deliver on our promises to clients in executing against plans. Building and fostering strong client relationships at all levels in the client organisation Provide accurate revenue forecasting, account reviews, strategic account plans and general sales data as required. Deep understanding of multi-channel customer solutions and managing the internal impacts within the client organisation If you know some of this, even better: Excellent negotiation skills and an ability to handle sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy. Knowledge of the Automotive industry Good commercial knowledge, experience of contract negotiations Quantitative and analytical skills and full understanding of ROI analysis Desirable attributes: Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills Clear, concise and persuasive negotiating skills Problem solving with creative approach to proactive identification and resolution of issues. What we can offer you: Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we'll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We'll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are. Permanent only: We offer a great benefits package including a discretionary bonus scheme, training opportunities, competitive pension, medical insurance, life assurance, social events, opportunities to buy and sell holidays, family friendly policies, discounts with hundreds of retailers and much more. Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage. We lead with Heart , fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish. We empower your Brains for innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges. And we champion Courage , inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.
Mar 31, 2026
Full time
Account Director needed to join our office in UK. The opportunity: If you are already a Client or Account Director or have the consultancy led ability to move into leading world class solutions for a top tier client, then read on. As a Client Director you will have full accountability for running multiple client accounts providing world class solutions for leading brands and retailers. You will have full responsibility of P&L for multi-million-pound projects across commerce, data, and tech portfolios. This role will give the right candidate the opportunity to lead and grow key accounts for well-known brands and retailers taking full ownership and demonstrating thought leadership to add real value to our clients. What you'll be doing: Manage P&L £5 - £10 m. C-level/senior manager client engagement. Manage engagements with leading UK and International brands. Undertake regular business travel (domestic and international) to client sites and internal offices. You will be accountable for all services into the client and manage a team of skilled professionals delivering Digital services to our clients. Day to day you will be working with your account team to deliver projects that create immediate value and help define the right digital future for our clients. Accountable for the overall revenue growth, client satisfaction, new program implementation and adaptation Achieve annual sales revenue targets and other goals for key accounts. Own and manage the commercial relationship with the customer including contracts for consultancy and programme delivery along with clear and defined SLA management within support. Form close working relationships with all stakeholders, team members and cross-functional support groups to ensure VML and client teams deliver the best outcomes possible for the client. What we want from you: Experience of delivering large projects and change programmes. Strong digital CX experience - guiding and advising teams Previous Client Services role or senior role within IT or a Digital Experience/CX agency Commercial experience of owning a P&L Value led approach for clients. This includes understanding clients' needs and defining their roadmap. Strong stakeholder and organisational skills, entrepreneurial attitude, proactive business style Up to date with market trends and able to advise clients on appropriate strategies. Know-how required to ensure we deliver on our promises to clients in executing against plans. Building and fostering strong client relationships at all levels in the client organisation Provide accurate revenue forecasting, account reviews, strategic account plans and general sales data as required. Deep understanding of multi-channel customer solutions and managing the internal impacts within the client organisation If you know some of this, even better: Excellent negotiation skills and an ability to handle sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy. Knowledge of the Automotive industry Good commercial knowledge, experience of contract negotiations Quantitative and analytical skills and full understanding of ROI analysis Desirable attributes: Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills Clear, concise and persuasive negotiating skills Problem solving with creative approach to proactive identification and resolution of issues. What we can offer you: Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we'll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We'll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are. Permanent only: We offer a great benefits package including a discretionary bonus scheme, training opportunities, competitive pension, medical insurance, life assurance, social events, opportunities to buy and sell holidays, family friendly policies, discounts with hundreds of retailers and much more. Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage. We lead with Heart , fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish. We empower your Brains for innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges. And we champion Courage , inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.
As a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager you will lead a team to drive the development of the strategy and delivery of exceptional customer experiences across key end-to-end customer journeys. You'll work closely with journey owners, design leads, product, operations, and other teams to lead the co-creation of integrated solutions that align with business goals and enhance the customer experience. By leveraging data and insights from various sources, you'll drive customer-centric solutions that address pain points and meet evolving customer needs. You will champion the reimagining of customer journeys in line with the strategic vision, ensuring seamless, intuitive, and digitally enabled experiences. Additionally, you'll drive collaboration across cross-functional teams, working with design, product, and technology stakeholders to prioritise and deliver strategic initiatives. You will also ensure the team stay ahead of emerging customer experience trends and technologies, integrating these into journey strategies, while fostering a culture of experimentation, testing, and continuous improvement. To be successful as a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager, you should have experience with Strategic thinker with the ability to convert complex problems into innovative solutions, particularly in systems design, for broader journey transformation. Great leadership and coaching skills, with experience leading in a matrixed environment and delivering through others Great influencing and senior stakeholder management skills, with experience delivering in cross-functional, matrixed environments involving multiple stakeholders. Expertise in customer journey mapping and design thinking methodologies, collaborating closely with Journey Design Leads to produce high-quality journey artefacts. Skilled in developing future state strategies for multi-channel customer journeys. Good commercial acumen, understanding how exceptional customer experiences drive positive business outcomes. Experience using customer data, market insights, and competitor analysis to identify opportunities and shape strategic customer journey development. Experience briefing and synthesizing customer research, turning insights into journey themes and understanding the cumulative impact of frequent issues on overall journey performance. Good facilitation and storytelling abilities to communicate journey narratives effectively. Knowledge of agile working practices, with the ability to thrive in cross-functional environments. Some other highly valued skills may include Experience in CX tools such as Figma, Adobe Analytics, and Qualtrics. Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with a deep sense of customer empathy. Proficient in using Jira and confluence. You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role can be based in Northampton, London (1CP) or Manchester (4PP). Purpose of the role To design the end to end journey of a service to enable a user to complete their goals. The work may involve the creation of, or change to, transactions, products and content across both digital and offline channels provided by different parts of Barclays. Accountabilities Creation of design assets to drive business outcomes, including service blueprinting, customer journey mapping and service prototyping. Creation of intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for digital banking platforms and applications for a seamless and engaging user experience. Design and maintenance of visually appealing and consistent user interfaces that align with the bank's brand identity and design guidelines across digital products. Creation of wireframes and interactive prototypes for visualisation and testing of product concepts and features before development. Compliance to accessibility standards and guidelines to provide an inclusive experience for all users. Monitoring of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the design quality and innovation of banking products. Gathering and analysis of data from a wide range of sources to create in-depth insights into customer's needs or pain-points to aid business understanding of the customer experience. Vice President Expectations To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.
Oct 03, 2025
Full time
As a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager you will lead a team to drive the development of the strategy and delivery of exceptional customer experiences across key end-to-end customer journeys. You'll work closely with journey owners, design leads, product, operations, and other teams to lead the co-creation of integrated solutions that align with business goals and enhance the customer experience. By leveraging data and insights from various sources, you'll drive customer-centric solutions that address pain points and meet evolving customer needs. You will champion the reimagining of customer journeys in line with the strategic vision, ensuring seamless, intuitive, and digitally enabled experiences. Additionally, you'll drive collaboration across cross-functional teams, working with design, product, and technology stakeholders to prioritise and deliver strategic initiatives. You will also ensure the team stay ahead of emerging customer experience trends and technologies, integrating these into journey strategies, while fostering a culture of experimentation, testing, and continuous improvement. To be successful as a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager, you should have experience with Strategic thinker with the ability to convert complex problems into innovative solutions, particularly in systems design, for broader journey transformation. Great leadership and coaching skills, with experience leading in a matrixed environment and delivering through others Great influencing and senior stakeholder management skills, with experience delivering in cross-functional, matrixed environments involving multiple stakeholders. Expertise in customer journey mapping and design thinking methodologies, collaborating closely with Journey Design Leads to produce high-quality journey artefacts. Skilled in developing future state strategies for multi-channel customer journeys. Good commercial acumen, understanding how exceptional customer experiences drive positive business outcomes. Experience using customer data, market insights, and competitor analysis to identify opportunities and shape strategic customer journey development. Experience briefing and synthesizing customer research, turning insights into journey themes and understanding the cumulative impact of frequent issues on overall journey performance. Good facilitation and storytelling abilities to communicate journey narratives effectively. Knowledge of agile working practices, with the ability to thrive in cross-functional environments. Some other highly valued skills may include Experience in CX tools such as Figma, Adobe Analytics, and Qualtrics. Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with a deep sense of customer empathy. Proficient in using Jira and confluence. You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role can be based in Northampton, London (1CP) or Manchester (4PP). Purpose of the role To design the end to end journey of a service to enable a user to complete their goals. The work may involve the creation of, or change to, transactions, products and content across both digital and offline channels provided by different parts of Barclays. Accountabilities Creation of design assets to drive business outcomes, including service blueprinting, customer journey mapping and service prototyping. Creation of intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for digital banking platforms and applications for a seamless and engaging user experience. Design and maintenance of visually appealing and consistent user interfaces that align with the bank's brand identity and design guidelines across digital products. Creation of wireframes and interactive prototypes for visualisation and testing of product concepts and features before development. Compliance to accessibility standards and guidelines to provide an inclusive experience for all users. Monitoring of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the design quality and innovation of banking products. Gathering and analysis of data from a wide range of sources to create in-depth insights into customer's needs or pain-points to aid business understanding of the customer experience. Vice President Expectations To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.
As a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager you will lead a team to drive the development of the strategy and delivery of exceptional customer experiences across key end-to-end customer journeys. You'll work closely with journey owners, design leads, product, operations, and other teams to lead the co-creation of integrated solutions that align with business goals and enhance the customer experience. By leveraging data and insights from various sources, you'll drive customer-centric solutions that address pain points and meet evolving customer needs. You will champion the reimagining of customer journeys in line with the strategic vision, ensuring seamless, intuitive, and digitally enabled experiences. Additionally, you'll drive collaboration across cross-functional teams, working with design, product, and technology stakeholders to prioritise and deliver strategic initiatives. You will also ensure the team stay ahead of emerging customer experience trends and technologies, integrating these into journey strategies, while fostering a culture of experimentation, testing, and continuous improvement. To be successful as a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager, you should have experience with Strategic thinker with the ability to convert complex problems into innovative solutions, particularly in systems design, for broader journey transformation. Great leadership and coaching skills, with experience leading in a matrixed environment and delivering through others Great influencing and senior stakeholder management skills, with experience delivering in cross-functional, matrixed environments involving multiple stakeholders. Expertise in customer journey mapping and design thinking methodologies, collaborating closely with Journey Design Leads to produce high-quality journey artefacts. Skilled in developing future state strategies for multi-channel customer journeys. Good commercial acumen, understanding how exceptional customer experiences drive positive business outcomes. Experience using customer data, market insights, and competitor analysis to identify opportunities and shape strategic customer journey development. Experience briefing and synthesizing customer research, turning insights into journey themes and understanding the cumulative impact of frequent issues on overall journey performance. Good facilitation and storytelling abilities to communicate journey narratives effectively. Knowledge of agile working practices, with the ability to thrive in cross-functional environments. Some other highly valued skills may include Experience in CX tools such as Figma, Adobe Analytics, and Qualtrics. Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with a deep sense of customer empathy. Proficient in using Jira and confluence. You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role can be based in Northampton, London (1CP) or Manchester (4PP). Purpose of the role To design the end to end journey of a service to enable a user to complete their goals. The work may involve the creation of, or change to, transactions, products and content across both digital and offline channels provided by different parts of Barclays. Accountabilities Creation of design assets to drive business outcomes, including service blueprinting, customer journey mapping and service prototyping. Creation of intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for digital banking platforms and applications for a seamless and engaging user experience. Design and maintenance of visually appealing and consistent user interfaces that align with the bank's brand identity and design guidelines across digital products. Creation of wireframes and interactive prototypes for visualisation and testing of product concepts and features before development. Compliance to accessibility standards and guidelines to provide an inclusive experience for all users. Monitoring of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the design quality and innovation of banking products. Gathering and analysis of data from a wide range of sources to create in-depth insights into customer's needs or pain-points to aid business understanding of the customer experience. Vice President Expectations To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.
Oct 03, 2025
Full time
As a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager you will lead a team to drive the development of the strategy and delivery of exceptional customer experiences across key end-to-end customer journeys. You'll work closely with journey owners, design leads, product, operations, and other teams to lead the co-creation of integrated solutions that align with business goals and enhance the customer experience. By leveraging data and insights from various sources, you'll drive customer-centric solutions that address pain points and meet evolving customer needs. You will champion the reimagining of customer journeys in line with the strategic vision, ensuring seamless, intuitive, and digitally enabled experiences. Additionally, you'll drive collaboration across cross-functional teams, working with design, product, and technology stakeholders to prioritise and deliver strategic initiatives. You will also ensure the team stay ahead of emerging customer experience trends and technologies, integrating these into journey strategies, while fostering a culture of experimentation, testing, and continuous improvement. To be successful as a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager, you should have experience with Strategic thinker with the ability to convert complex problems into innovative solutions, particularly in systems design, for broader journey transformation. Great leadership and coaching skills, with experience leading in a matrixed environment and delivering through others Great influencing and senior stakeholder management skills, with experience delivering in cross-functional, matrixed environments involving multiple stakeholders. Expertise in customer journey mapping and design thinking methodologies, collaborating closely with Journey Design Leads to produce high-quality journey artefacts. Skilled in developing future state strategies for multi-channel customer journeys. Good commercial acumen, understanding how exceptional customer experiences drive positive business outcomes. Experience using customer data, market insights, and competitor analysis to identify opportunities and shape strategic customer journey development. Experience briefing and synthesizing customer research, turning insights into journey themes and understanding the cumulative impact of frequent issues on overall journey performance. Good facilitation and storytelling abilities to communicate journey narratives effectively. Knowledge of agile working practices, with the ability to thrive in cross-functional environments. Some other highly valued skills may include Experience in CX tools such as Figma, Adobe Analytics, and Qualtrics. Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with a deep sense of customer empathy. Proficient in using Jira and confluence. You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role can be based in Northampton, London (1CP) or Manchester (4PP). Purpose of the role To design the end to end journey of a service to enable a user to complete their goals. The work may involve the creation of, or change to, transactions, products and content across both digital and offline channels provided by different parts of Barclays. Accountabilities Creation of design assets to drive business outcomes, including service blueprinting, customer journey mapping and service prototyping. Creation of intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for digital banking platforms and applications for a seamless and engaging user experience. Design and maintenance of visually appealing and consistent user interfaces that align with the bank's brand identity and design guidelines across digital products. Creation of wireframes and interactive prototypes for visualisation and testing of product concepts and features before development. Compliance to accessibility standards and guidelines to provide an inclusive experience for all users. Monitoring of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the design quality and innovation of banking products. Gathering and analysis of data from a wide range of sources to create in-depth insights into customer's needs or pain-points to aid business understanding of the customer experience. Vice President Expectations To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.
As a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager you will lead a team to drive the development of the strategy and delivery of exceptional customer experiences across key end-to-end customer journeys. You'll work closely with journey owners, design leads, product, operations, and other teams to lead the co-creation of integrated solutions that align with business goals and enhance the customer experience. By leveraging data and insights from various sources, you'll drive customer-centric solutions that address pain points and meet evolving customer needs. You will champion the reimagining of customer journeys in line with the strategic vision, ensuring seamless, intuitive, and digitally enabled experiences. Additionally, you'll drive collaboration across cross-functional teams, working with design, product, and technology stakeholders to prioritise and deliver strategic initiatives. You will also ensure the team stay ahead of emerging customer experience trends and technologies, integrating these into journey strategies, while fostering a culture of experimentation, testing, and continuous improvement. To be successful as a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager, you should have experience with Strategic thinker with the ability to convert complex problems into innovative solutions, particularly in systems design, for broader journey transformation. Great leadership and coaching skills, with experience leading in a matrixed environment and delivering through others Great influencing and senior stakeholder management skills, with experience delivering in cross-functional, matrixed environments involving multiple stakeholders. Expertise in customer journey mapping and design thinking methodologies, collaborating closely with Journey Design Leads to produce high-quality journey artefacts. Skilled in developing future state strategies for multi-channel customer journeys. Good commercial acumen, understanding how exceptional customer experiences drive positive business outcomes. Experience using customer data, market insights, and competitor analysis to identify opportunities and shape strategic customer journey development. Experience briefing and synthesizing customer research, turning insights into journey themes and understanding the cumulative impact of frequent issues on overall journey performance. Good facilitation and storytelling abilities to communicate journey narratives effectively. Knowledge of agile working practices, with the ability to thrive in cross-functional environments. Some other highly valued skills may include Experience in CX tools such as Figma, Adobe Analytics, and Qualtrics. Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with a deep sense of customer empathy. Proficient in using Jira and confluence. You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role can be based in Northampton, London (1CP) or Manchester (4PP). Purpose of the role To design the end to end journey of a service to enable a user to complete their goals. The work may involve the creation of, or change to, transactions, products and content across both digital and offline channels provided by different parts of Barclays. Accountabilities Creation of design assets to drive business outcomes, including service blueprinting, customer journey mapping and service prototyping. Creation of intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for digital banking platforms and applications for a seamless and engaging user experience. Design and maintenance of visually appealing and consistent user interfaces that align with the bank's brand identity and design guidelines across digital products. Creation of wireframes and interactive prototypes for visualisation and testing of product concepts and features before development. Compliance to accessibility standards and guidelines to provide an inclusive experience for all users. Monitoring of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the design quality and innovation of banking products. Gathering and analysis of data from a wide range of sources to create in-depth insights into customer's needs or pain-points to aid business understanding of the customer experience. Vice President Expectations To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.
Oct 03, 2025
Full time
As a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager you will lead a team to drive the development of the strategy and delivery of exceptional customer experiences across key end-to-end customer journeys. You'll work closely with journey owners, design leads, product, operations, and other teams to lead the co-creation of integrated solutions that align with business goals and enhance the customer experience. By leveraging data and insights from various sources, you'll drive customer-centric solutions that address pain points and meet evolving customer needs. You will champion the reimagining of customer journeys in line with the strategic vision, ensuring seamless, intuitive, and digitally enabled experiences. Additionally, you'll drive collaboration across cross-functional teams, working with design, product, and technology stakeholders to prioritise and deliver strategic initiatives. You will also ensure the team stay ahead of emerging customer experience trends and technologies, integrating these into journey strategies, while fostering a culture of experimentation, testing, and continuous improvement. To be successful as a Customer Journey Strategy Senior Manager, you should have experience with Strategic thinker with the ability to convert complex problems into innovative solutions, particularly in systems design, for broader journey transformation. Great leadership and coaching skills, with experience leading in a matrixed environment and delivering through others Great influencing and senior stakeholder management skills, with experience delivering in cross-functional, matrixed environments involving multiple stakeholders. Expertise in customer journey mapping and design thinking methodologies, collaborating closely with Journey Design Leads to produce high-quality journey artefacts. Skilled in developing future state strategies for multi-channel customer journeys. Good commercial acumen, understanding how exceptional customer experiences drive positive business outcomes. Experience using customer data, market insights, and competitor analysis to identify opportunities and shape strategic customer journey development. Experience briefing and synthesizing customer research, turning insights into journey themes and understanding the cumulative impact of frequent issues on overall journey performance. Good facilitation and storytelling abilities to communicate journey narratives effectively. Knowledge of agile working practices, with the ability to thrive in cross-functional environments. Some other highly valued skills may include Experience in CX tools such as Figma, Adobe Analytics, and Qualtrics. Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with a deep sense of customer empathy. Proficient in using Jira and confluence. You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role can be based in Northampton, London (1CP) or Manchester (4PP). Purpose of the role To design the end to end journey of a service to enable a user to complete their goals. The work may involve the creation of, or change to, transactions, products and content across both digital and offline channels provided by different parts of Barclays. Accountabilities Creation of design assets to drive business outcomes, including service blueprinting, customer journey mapping and service prototyping. Creation of intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for digital banking platforms and applications for a seamless and engaging user experience. Design and maintenance of visually appealing and consistent user interfaces that align with the bank's brand identity and design guidelines across digital products. Creation of wireframes and interactive prototypes for visualisation and testing of product concepts and features before development. Compliance to accessibility standards and guidelines to provide an inclusive experience for all users. Monitoring of industry trends, design best practices, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the design quality and innovation of banking products. Gathering and analysis of data from a wide range of sources to create in-depth insights into customer's needs or pain-points to aid business understanding of the customer experience. Vice President Expectations To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. Your role in the team The Architecture Compute, and Engineering organization provides a transformative platform ecosystem with a comprehensive set of capabilities that empowers end users and digital product teams to innovate seamlessly and drive growth for Allstate through the Consumer Connected Cloud mission. This ecosystem aims to provide an absolute frictionless experience for our user community. As a Lead Digital Product Manager in the ACE organization, you'll be a player/coach who drives multiple products across a platform, contributing towards defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of a suite of products ensuring they meet the needs of the customers and align with the company's strategic goals. You will lead and coach a team of Digital Product Managers to advance in the trade and to advance product strategy. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, technical understanding, and business acumen. The Mainframe Lead DPM is driving several strategic initiatives aimed at modernizing and optimizing Allstate's mainframe systems. This includes enhancing cyber resiliency through safeguarded storage upgrades, immutable backups, and disaster recovery exercises, while also transitioning legacy workloads to more agile and secure platforms. The role is central to exploring next-generation capabilities such as AI, machine learning, and containerization-leveraging technologies like zCX and z/OS 3.1 to enable on-platform intelligence and scalable automation. These efforts support a broader transformation of mainframe hosting into a dynamic, data-driven ecosystem that integrates seamlessly with distributed environments and accelerates business value delivery. Key Responsibilities Product Portfolio Leadership: Manage the strategic direction of your product family (multiple products) ensuring continuous alignment to the highest priority outcomes; including vision and strategy for suite of digital products, developing & managing a strategic roadmap Market Research: Conduct market and user research to identify trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape Product Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and launch new digital products. Roadmap Management and Alignment: Create appropriate forum for roadmap alignment and planning in support of strategic initiatives across product portfolio and product management team Ongoing Management: Work with the Digital Product teams to optimize team ceremonies and practices to drive maturity including write & groom stories, prioritize, and manage the backlog. Performance Monitoring: Define product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions. Stakeholder Management: Communicate product progress and updates to internal stakeholders and external partners ensuring appropriate prioritization and coordination of the work Vendor Management: Engage in strategic vendor management where necessary ensuring interactive partnership with both our external vendors and internal sourcing leaders Budget Management: Forecast ongoing total cost of ownership of your products, manage budgets including vendor contract management, hardware costs, labor costs, etc. ensuring operation effectiveness; develops strategies and adjust courses of action Customer Feedback: Gather and analyze customer feedback to continually improve the product. Impact and Influence: Drive maturity in our product management practices, influence engineering, platform consultant and architecture leadership within your product domain and across ACE Grow Talent: Grow & mature Digital Product Management practitioner skills with your team by modeling the skills & behaviors we expect within our DPM trade as well as fostering the growth of individuals on your team Essential criteria All candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK. Allstate is unable to provide sponsorship for this position. A minimum of 5 years' experience as a Digital Product Manager A minimum of 2 year's coaching and leading teams. Must have experience in one or more of the following within the last 10 years COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, and z/OS fundamentals. Experience with Agile methodologies and product management tooling Experience of development processes, human centered design, UX/UI design, and digital marketing Demonstrable experience in effectively communicating complex and innovative product concepts to cross-functional development teams. Proven ability to apply data-driven decision-making to influence product direction and prioritization. Strong, proven capability in breaking down complex initiatives into incremental and iterative deliverables aligned with Agile best practices. Definite product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions. Desirable Experience Understanding of the system behaviors, how batch and online transactions work, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Familiarity with RACF, encryption standards, and audit requirements-especially in regulated industries like Insurance or Finance Supervisory Experience: This job does have supervisory duties. Job posting end date: Friday the 3rd of October 2025 Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact. Why join us? Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence-recent winners of 'Best Use of Cloud Services' at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility. We're a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value. We offer: • A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts • Access to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&D • Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth • A people-first culture with flexible working options Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way. Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability. We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit. Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position. Posting End Date: 20 August 2025
Oct 02, 2025
Full time
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. Your role in the team The Architecture Compute, and Engineering organization provides a transformative platform ecosystem with a comprehensive set of capabilities that empowers end users and digital product teams to innovate seamlessly and drive growth for Allstate through the Consumer Connected Cloud mission. This ecosystem aims to provide an absolute frictionless experience for our user community. As a Lead Digital Product Manager in the ACE organization, you'll be a player/coach who drives multiple products across a platform, contributing towards defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of a suite of products ensuring they meet the needs of the customers and align with the company's strategic goals. You will lead and coach a team of Digital Product Managers to advance in the trade and to advance product strategy. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, technical understanding, and business acumen. The Mainframe Lead DPM is driving several strategic initiatives aimed at modernizing and optimizing Allstate's mainframe systems. This includes enhancing cyber resiliency through safeguarded storage upgrades, immutable backups, and disaster recovery exercises, while also transitioning legacy workloads to more agile and secure platforms. The role is central to exploring next-generation capabilities such as AI, machine learning, and containerization-leveraging technologies like zCX and z/OS 3.1 to enable on-platform intelligence and scalable automation. These efforts support a broader transformation of mainframe hosting into a dynamic, data-driven ecosystem that integrates seamlessly with distributed environments and accelerates business value delivery. Key Responsibilities Product Portfolio Leadership: Manage the strategic direction of your product family (multiple products) ensuring continuous alignment to the highest priority outcomes; including vision and strategy for suite of digital products, developing & managing a strategic roadmap Market Research: Conduct market and user research to identify trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape Product Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and launch new digital products. Roadmap Management and Alignment: Create appropriate forum for roadmap alignment and planning in support of strategic initiatives across product portfolio and product management team Ongoing Management: Work with the Digital Product teams to optimize team ceremonies and practices to drive maturity including write & groom stories, prioritize, and manage the backlog. Performance Monitoring: Define product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions. Stakeholder Management: Communicate product progress and updates to internal stakeholders and external partners ensuring appropriate prioritization and coordination of the work Vendor Management: Engage in strategic vendor management where necessary ensuring interactive partnership with both our external vendors and internal sourcing leaders Budget Management: Forecast ongoing total cost of ownership of your products, manage budgets including vendor contract management, hardware costs, labor costs, etc. ensuring operation effectiveness; develops strategies and adjust courses of action Customer Feedback: Gather and analyze customer feedback to continually improve the product. Impact and Influence: Drive maturity in our product management practices, influence engineering, platform consultant and architecture leadership within your product domain and across ACE Grow Talent: Grow & mature Digital Product Management practitioner skills with your team by modeling the skills & behaviors we expect within our DPM trade as well as fostering the growth of individuals on your team Essential criteria All candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK. Allstate is unable to provide sponsorship for this position. A minimum of 5 years' experience as a Digital Product Manager A minimum of 2 year's coaching and leading teams. Must have experience in one or more of the following within the last 10 years COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, and z/OS fundamentals. Experience with Agile methodologies and product management tooling Experience of development processes, human centered design, UX/UI design, and digital marketing Demonstrable experience in effectively communicating complex and innovative product concepts to cross-functional development teams. Proven ability to apply data-driven decision-making to influence product direction and prioritization. Strong, proven capability in breaking down complex initiatives into incremental and iterative deliverables aligned with Agile best practices. Definite product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions. Desirable Experience Understanding of the system behaviors, how batch and online transactions work, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Familiarity with RACF, encryption standards, and audit requirements-especially in regulated industries like Insurance or Finance Supervisory Experience: This job does have supervisory duties. Job posting end date: Friday the 3rd of October 2025 Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact. Why join us? Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence-recent winners of 'Best Use of Cloud Services' at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility. We're a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value. We offer: • A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts • Access to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&D • Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth • A people-first culture with flexible working options Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way. Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability. We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit. Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position. Posting End Date: 20 August 2025
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. Your role in the team The Architecture Compute, and Engineering organization provides a transformative platform ecosystem with a comprehensive set of capabilities that empowers end users and digital product teams to innovate seamlessly and drive growth for Allstate through the Consumer Connected Cloud mission. This ecosystem aims to provide an absolute frictionless experience for our user community. As a Lead Digital Product Manager in the ACE organization, you'll be a player/coach who drives multiple products across a platform, contributing towards defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of a suite of products ensuring they meet the needs of the customers and align with the company's strategic goals. You will lead and coach a team of Digital Product Managers to advance in the trade and to advance product strategy. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, technical understanding, and business acumen. The Mainframe Lead DPM is driving several strategic initiatives aimed at modernizing and optimizing Allstate's mainframe systems. This includes enhancing cyber resiliency through safeguarded storage upgrades, immutable backups, and disaster recovery exercises, while also transitioning legacy workloads to more agile and secure platforms. The role is central to exploring next-generation capabilities such as AI, machine learning, and containerization-leveraging technologies like zCX and z/OS 3.1 to enable on-platform intelligence and scalable automation. These efforts support a broader transformation of mainframe hosting into a dynamic, data-driven ecosystem that integrates seamlessly with distributed environments and accelerates business value delivery. Key Responsibilities Product Portfolio Leadership: Manage the strategic direction of your product family (multiple products) ensuring continuous alignment to the highest priority outcomes; including vision and strategy for suite of digital products, developing & managing a strategic roadmap Market Research: Conduct market and user research to identify trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape Product Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and launch new digital products. Roadmap Management and Alignment: Create appropriate forum for roadmap alignment and planning in support of strategic initiatives across product portfolio and product management team Ongoing Management: Work with the Digital Product teams to optimize team ceremonies and practices to drive maturity including write & groom stories, prioritize, and manage the backlog. Performance Monitoring: Define product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions. Stakeholder Management: Communicate product progress and updates to internal stakeholders and external partners ensuring appropriate prioritization and coordination of the work Vendor Management: Engage in strategic vendor management where necessary ensuring interactive partnership with both our external vendors and internal sourcing leaders Budget Management: Forecast ongoing total cost of ownership of your products, manage budgets including vendor contract management, hardware costs, labor costs, etc. ensuring operation effectiveness; develops strategies and adjust courses of action Customer Feedback: Gather and analyze customer feedback to continually improve the product. Impact and Influence: Drive maturity in our product management practices, influence engineering, platform consultant and architecture leadership within your product domain and across ACE Grow Talent: Grow & mature Digital Product Management practitioner skills with your team by modeling the skills & behaviors we expect within our DPM trade as well as fostering the growth of individuals on your team Essential criteria All candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK. Allstate is unable to provide sponsorship for this position. A minimum of 5 years' experience as a Digital Product Manager A minimum of 2 year's coaching and leading teams. Must have experience in one or more of the following within the last 10 years COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, and z/OS fundamentals. Experience with Agile methodologies and product management tooling Experience of development processes, human centered design, UX/UI design, and digital marketing Demonstrable experience in effectively communicating complex and innovative product concepts to cross-functional development teams. Proven ability to apply data-driven decision-making to influence product direction and prioritization. Strong, proven capability in breaking down complex initiatives into incremental and iterative deliverables aligned with Agile best practices. Definite product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions. Desirable Experience Understanding of the system behaviors, how batch and online transactions work, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Familiarity with RACF, encryption standards, and audit requirements-especially in regulated industries like Insurance or Finance Supervisory Experience: This job does have supervisory duties. Job posting end date: Friday the 3rd of October 2025 Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact. Why join us? Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence-recent winners of 'Best Use of Cloud Services' at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility. We're a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value. We offer: • A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts • Access to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&D • Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth • A people-first culture with flexible working options Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way. Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability. We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit. Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position. Posting End Date: 20 August 2025
Oct 02, 2025
Full time
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. Your role in the team The Architecture Compute, and Engineering organization provides a transformative platform ecosystem with a comprehensive set of capabilities that empowers end users and digital product teams to innovate seamlessly and drive growth for Allstate through the Consumer Connected Cloud mission. This ecosystem aims to provide an absolute frictionless experience for our user community. As a Lead Digital Product Manager in the ACE organization, you'll be a player/coach who drives multiple products across a platform, contributing towards defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of a suite of products ensuring they meet the needs of the customers and align with the company's strategic goals. You will lead and coach a team of Digital Product Managers to advance in the trade and to advance product strategy. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, technical understanding, and business acumen. The Mainframe Lead DPM is driving several strategic initiatives aimed at modernizing and optimizing Allstate's mainframe systems. This includes enhancing cyber resiliency through safeguarded storage upgrades, immutable backups, and disaster recovery exercises, while also transitioning legacy workloads to more agile and secure platforms. The role is central to exploring next-generation capabilities such as AI, machine learning, and containerization-leveraging technologies like zCX and z/OS 3.1 to enable on-platform intelligence and scalable automation. These efforts support a broader transformation of mainframe hosting into a dynamic, data-driven ecosystem that integrates seamlessly with distributed environments and accelerates business value delivery. Key Responsibilities Product Portfolio Leadership: Manage the strategic direction of your product family (multiple products) ensuring continuous alignment to the highest priority outcomes; including vision and strategy for suite of digital products, developing & managing a strategic roadmap Market Research: Conduct market and user research to identify trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape Product Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and launch new digital products. Roadmap Management and Alignment: Create appropriate forum for roadmap alignment and planning in support of strategic initiatives across product portfolio and product management team Ongoing Management: Work with the Digital Product teams to optimize team ceremonies and practices to drive maturity including write & groom stories, prioritize, and manage the backlog. Performance Monitoring: Define product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions. Stakeholder Management: Communicate product progress and updates to internal stakeholders and external partners ensuring appropriate prioritization and coordination of the work Vendor Management: Engage in strategic vendor management where necessary ensuring interactive partnership with both our external vendors and internal sourcing leaders Budget Management: Forecast ongoing total cost of ownership of your products, manage budgets including vendor contract management, hardware costs, labor costs, etc. ensuring operation effectiveness; develops strategies and adjust courses of action Customer Feedback: Gather and analyze customer feedback to continually improve the product. Impact and Influence: Drive maturity in our product management practices, influence engineering, platform consultant and architecture leadership within your product domain and across ACE Grow Talent: Grow & mature Digital Product Management practitioner skills with your team by modeling the skills & behaviors we expect within our DPM trade as well as fostering the growth of individuals on your team Essential criteria All candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK. Allstate is unable to provide sponsorship for this position. A minimum of 5 years' experience as a Digital Product Manager A minimum of 2 year's coaching and leading teams. Must have experience in one or more of the following within the last 10 years COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, and z/OS fundamentals. Experience with Agile methodologies and product management tooling Experience of development processes, human centered design, UX/UI design, and digital marketing Demonstrable experience in effectively communicating complex and innovative product concepts to cross-functional development teams. Proven ability to apply data-driven decision-making to influence product direction and prioritization. Strong, proven capability in breaking down complex initiatives into incremental and iterative deliverables aligned with Agile best practices. Definite product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions. Desirable Experience Understanding of the system behaviors, how batch and online transactions work, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Familiarity with RACF, encryption standards, and audit requirements-especially in regulated industries like Insurance or Finance Supervisory Experience: This job does have supervisory duties. Job posting end date: Friday the 3rd of October 2025 Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact. Why join us? Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence-recent winners of 'Best Use of Cloud Services' at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility. We're a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value. We offer: • A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts • Access to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&D • Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth • A people-first culture with flexible working options Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way. Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability. We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit. Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position. Posting End Date: 20 August 2025
Locations: London Boston Paris Chicago Madrid Who We Are Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive. What You'll Do As a Director - Cusomter Experience, BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path within BCG's Marketing, Sales, and Pricing (MSP) Practice Area, you will be a key contributor towards the strategic agenda for the Customer Experience sector. You will grow and deploy a team of 4+ Customer Experience Sector experts to provide value added support to the business and be responsible for team's performance across all KPIs (case billability, quality, content creation, etc.). You will also take ownership for the team's development and career progression. Additionally, you will directly contribute to cases, proposals, client workshops based upon your own extensive experience in the domain. You will support SATT & Conferences, presenting expertise in meetings & conferences. BCG's Customer Experience consulting team help clients to transform their business at scale, driving cost-effective growth and life-time value through omnichannel and digital strategies. As a Senior Manager - BCG Vantage you will partner with consulting leadership to bring to market new consulting offers and provide case teams with the latest insight and tools to drive client impact. You'll serve as thought partner and subject matter expert to case teams and consulting leaders, helping to structure and solve complex issues. This is a diverse role that will see you engaged on a variety of product marketing, sales enablement, and expert consulting assignments. You'll conduct research to support offer development and go-to- market; build / deploy client diagnostics to scope customer experience innovations and improvements; and partner with consulting teams to contribute to proposals and client workshops. Success in this role requires a blend of analytical and creative skills. You'll need to be able to conduct quant and qual analyses to map customer journeys and assess the business impact of meeting customer needs. You'll also need to be adept at understanding market priorities and crafting product messaging to communicate our customer experience value proposition and impact. It also requires an entrepreneurial flair. With the advent of AI, customer experiences and expectations are evolving fast. So are our clients. You'll need to keep ahead of the latest innovations and work to constantly evolve BCG's CX perspectives, insights, and client diagnostics so that we can answer our clients' toughest questions. YOU'RE GOOD AT Deep expertise in customer experiences across online and offline touchpoints Developing customer-centric strategies that drive growth, cost efficiency, and lifetime value Conducting quant / qual research to understand customer needs and pain points Mapping customer journeys, identifying "moments of truth," & designing target experiences Scoping & implementing AI, automation, and digital solutions to transform customer engagement Building data-driven business cases to prioritize CX investments and innovations Communicating with clients and stakeholders, in a credible and confident way Working collaboratively and effectively in a group dynamic often virtual Proficient in agile ways of working Being flexible and bringing a curious and creative mindset Navigating complexity and ambiguity What You'll Bring 7+ years of consulting experience required; candidates with consulting experience preferred In lieu of consulting experience, 8+ years minimum industry experience required; 12-14+ years of industry experience strongly preferred Bachelor's Degree required (advanced degree preferred) Fluency in English (must have) Experience in any of the following sectors: telecom, retail, banking, insurance, or travel (preferred) Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities Strong written and verbal communication skills Who You'll Work With As a Director - Customer Experience , BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path , you will collaborate with global topic leads and colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities t o the ser vice of our internal and external clients. Our team is made up of a diverse pool of BCG Vantage positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative BCG Vantage careers. Additional info BCG Vantage is a powerhouse of expertise, seamlessly embedded within Practice Areas and markets to drive extraordinary impact. It equips BCG case teams and clients with cutting-edge expertise, proprietary assets, actionable data, and transformative insights that empower our case teams and enable our clients to achieve their aspirations. With global experts across 20 Practices, covering more than 100 topics, sectors and offers, plus four focused geographic markets, BCG Vantage delivers unparalleled depth and breadth of insight & expertise. BCG Vantage consists of three career paths, each playing a crucial role in delivering value to clients, case teams and practice teams. Client Focus (Embedded Expertise) Integrates into client-facing teams to deliver direct client impact through expertise, know-how, and proprietary tools and assets Topic Activation (Sector Expertise with Proprietary Tool & Data Solutions) Combines deep domain insights with our know-how and proprietary assets to address targeted challenges directly with clients and project teams; co-creates insights on industry trends and functional topics, proprietary data and tools, and teams to codify IP that all enables BCG to deliver excellent business value with its clients Research (Practice Topic and Sector-Aligned Research and Insights) Delivers actionable research and insights tailored to the client project's needs; works with qualitative and quantitative data, conducts research and provides synthesized results from sources including commercial data, public and open source, company and industry research, macro-economic, commodities and trade data Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, contributions to BCG's Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF), and a market leading benefits package described below. We expect total annualized compensation for Chicago & Boston based employees to be approximately the following: Base salary of $174,100 Annual discretionary performance bonus between 0-30% 5% Profit Sharing Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution, increasing to 10% after two years of service. Contributions are vested immediately and there is no waiting period At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws. BCG is an E - Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify.
Sep 24, 2025
Full time
Locations: London Boston Paris Chicago Madrid Who We Are Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive. What You'll Do As a Director - Cusomter Experience, BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path within BCG's Marketing, Sales, and Pricing (MSP) Practice Area, you will be a key contributor towards the strategic agenda for the Customer Experience sector. You will grow and deploy a team of 4+ Customer Experience Sector experts to provide value added support to the business and be responsible for team's performance across all KPIs (case billability, quality, content creation, etc.). You will also take ownership for the team's development and career progression. Additionally, you will directly contribute to cases, proposals, client workshops based upon your own extensive experience in the domain. You will support SATT & Conferences, presenting expertise in meetings & conferences. BCG's Customer Experience consulting team help clients to transform their business at scale, driving cost-effective growth and life-time value through omnichannel and digital strategies. As a Senior Manager - BCG Vantage you will partner with consulting leadership to bring to market new consulting offers and provide case teams with the latest insight and tools to drive client impact. You'll serve as thought partner and subject matter expert to case teams and consulting leaders, helping to structure and solve complex issues. This is a diverse role that will see you engaged on a variety of product marketing, sales enablement, and expert consulting assignments. You'll conduct research to support offer development and go-to- market; build / deploy client diagnostics to scope customer experience innovations and improvements; and partner with consulting teams to contribute to proposals and client workshops. Success in this role requires a blend of analytical and creative skills. You'll need to be able to conduct quant and qual analyses to map customer journeys and assess the business impact of meeting customer needs. You'll also need to be adept at understanding market priorities and crafting product messaging to communicate our customer experience value proposition and impact. It also requires an entrepreneurial flair. With the advent of AI, customer experiences and expectations are evolving fast. So are our clients. You'll need to keep ahead of the latest innovations and work to constantly evolve BCG's CX perspectives, insights, and client diagnostics so that we can answer our clients' toughest questions. YOU'RE GOOD AT Deep expertise in customer experiences across online and offline touchpoints Developing customer-centric strategies that drive growth, cost efficiency, and lifetime value Conducting quant / qual research to understand customer needs and pain points Mapping customer journeys, identifying "moments of truth," & designing target experiences Scoping & implementing AI, automation, and digital solutions to transform customer engagement Building data-driven business cases to prioritize CX investments and innovations Communicating with clients and stakeholders, in a credible and confident way Working collaboratively and effectively in a group dynamic often virtual Proficient in agile ways of working Being flexible and bringing a curious and creative mindset Navigating complexity and ambiguity What You'll Bring 7+ years of consulting experience required; candidates with consulting experience preferred In lieu of consulting experience, 8+ years minimum industry experience required; 12-14+ years of industry experience strongly preferred Bachelor's Degree required (advanced degree preferred) Fluency in English (must have) Experience in any of the following sectors: telecom, retail, banking, insurance, or travel (preferred) Strong business acumen and problem-solving capabilities Strong written and verbal communication skills Who You'll Work With As a Director - Customer Experience , BCG Vantage on our Topic Activation path , you will collaborate with global topic leads and colleagues across BCG to bring expertise and capabilities t o the ser vice of our internal and external clients. Our team is made up of a diverse pool of BCG Vantage positions that allow us to pursue exciting, innovative BCG Vantage careers. Additional info BCG Vantage is a powerhouse of expertise, seamlessly embedded within Practice Areas and markets to drive extraordinary impact. It equips BCG case teams and clients with cutting-edge expertise, proprietary assets, actionable data, and transformative insights that empower our case teams and enable our clients to achieve their aspirations. With global experts across 20 Practices, covering more than 100 topics, sectors and offers, plus four focused geographic markets, BCG Vantage delivers unparalleled depth and breadth of insight & expertise. BCG Vantage consists of three career paths, each playing a crucial role in delivering value to clients, case teams and practice teams. Client Focus (Embedded Expertise) Integrates into client-facing teams to deliver direct client impact through expertise, know-how, and proprietary tools and assets Topic Activation (Sector Expertise with Proprietary Tool & Data Solutions) Combines deep domain insights with our know-how and proprietary assets to address targeted challenges directly with clients and project teams; co-creates insights on industry trends and functional topics, proprietary data and tools, and teams to codify IP that all enables BCG to deliver excellent business value with its clients Research (Practice Topic and Sector-Aligned Research and Insights) Delivers actionable research and insights tailored to the client project's needs; works with qualitative and quantitative data, conducts research and provides synthesized results from sources including commercial data, public and open source, company and industry research, macro-economic, commodities and trade data Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, contributions to BCG's Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF), and a market leading benefits package described below. We expect total annualized compensation for Chicago & Boston based employees to be approximately the following: Base salary of $174,100 Annual discretionary performance bonus between 0-30% 5% Profit Sharing Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution, increasing to 10% after two years of service. Contributions are vested immediately and there is no waiting period At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws. BCG is an E - Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify.
