Digital Business Partner
Location: London or Bristol
Salary: London: circa 100k / Bristol: circa 85k
This is a great job for someone who enjoys connecting business strategy with technology outcomes and thrives on influencing senior stakeholders to deliver meaningful change. You might be an experienced technology leader, business partner, strategy manager, or digital transformation professional who can balance customer needs, innovation, risk management, and investment decisions while working across complex organisations.
A bit about the job:
As a DigitalBusiness Partner, you'll play a key role in translating business and customer strategy into technology outcomes that deliver measurable value. Working closely with senior leaders across Digital, Engineering, Delivery and Architecture, you'll help shape technology direction, drive innovation and ensure investment decisions align with strategic priorities.
You'll challenge and shape technology demand, establish a clear and consolidated focus on risk across platforms and services, and provide transparency through planning, budgeting and performance reporting. The role is focused on influencing and collaboration, ensuring change is effectively shaped before delivery, governance and controls are embedded, and technology investments deliver value for customers, colleagues and the business.
You'll also champion innovation through automation and AI, build strong relationships across Technology and the wider business, and help create a culture of continuous improvement by learning from incidents, resolving recurring issues and driving evidence-based decision making.
Skills and experience we're looking for:
- Proven experience building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and translating business strategy into technology, digital or transformation outcomes.
- Strong understanding of technology governance, risk management and control frameworks, with the ability to identify, assess and support the remediation of business and technology risks.
- Experience shaping large-scale change initiatives, creating transparency in total cost of ownership for market aligned Digital products and driving reductions, managing investment priorities and balancing cost, driving customer outcomes in decision-making.
- Knowledge of financial planning, budgeting and performance reporting, with the ability to provide transparency and insight across technology portfolios and investments.
- Passion for innovation and continuous improvement, with experience driving adoption of emerging technologies, automation and AI to improve business and customer outcomes.
Whatyou'llget for this role:
Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.And one of the ways we live up to that promiseisby investing in you.We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.
- Startingsalary London: circa 100k / Bristol: circa 85k (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
- Bonus opportunity 12% - actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's
- Generous pensionscheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14% in.
- 29 daysholidayplus bank holidays,and you can choosetobuyorsell up to 5days
- Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefitto help you get expert support when you need it
- Make your money go further -Up to 40%discountonAviva products, and other retailer discounts
- Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through ourMatching Share Planand share in the success of Aviva with ourSave As You Earnscheme
- Brilliantlysupportive policiesincluding parentalandcarer's leave
- Flexible benefitsto suit you, includingsustainability optionssuch as cycle to work
- Make a difference,be part of ourAviva Communitiesand useyour3paid volunteering daysto help others
- We take yourwellbeingseriously withlots of support and tools
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Aviva is for everyone:
We'reinclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.
We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working -spendingat least50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.
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Digital Business Partner employer: Aviva
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