Service Designer

Business Unit:Products and Channels
Salary Range:59200 - 74000
Location: UK Hybrid - with occasional travel to a key hub
Contract Type: Permanent

Your next adventure starts here

Its an exciting time at Virgin Money as we grow our Service Design Centre of Excellence (CoE) within our Products and Channels team. Were on an exciting journey and weve got big plans for the future. Its a fun and fast-paced place to be and we want you to help take us to the next level.

Service Design is the craft of looking holistically at a customers overall journeys as they interact with different products and services and design target experiences we want to create for our customers.

We are looking for a talented forward thinking Service Designer to join our team of highly skilled and passionate service deign practitioners as we create market-leading propositions and experiences for our customers.

What youll be doing

• In this highly collaborative role youll have a big impact on our organisation by shaping and improving how we design and deliver our services for customers. Your expertise will guide our strategic decisions spark innovation and ensure that we always prioritise our customers needs in the services we offer now and in the future.
• You will architect and partner with execution teams to enable ideal customer experiences all while building the organizations customer-centric culture. The ideal candidate for this position is a proven practitioner with a high capacity for follow-through bringing together the science (data-driven analytic skills) and art (design) of Customer Experience strategy.
• You will be responsible for baselining and diagnosing as is customer journeys and ideating target state design grounded in customer research and analysis to deliver good customer outcomes under the virgin brand promise.
• You will identify key moments that matter along the customer journey lifecycle based on output and coordination with Customer Insight and Voice of Customer Analytics teams
• Forensically dissecting critical experiences taking account of how people processes and technologies result in current customer experiences you will co-create new experience and process design with relevant cross-functional stakeholders taking into account budgetary and other operational realities
• You will build the business case for making critical changes based on desired Service Design outcomes Journey and Insight Mapping
• Create holistic service design blueprints including integrated journey/ process level mapping across CX operations work- flows and technology systems.
• Stay updated with industry trends and incorporate relevant insights into the service design strategy.

We need you to have

• Experience as a Service Design practitioner designing services that provide seamless and personalized experiences for customers within businesses of similar scale and nature
• Expertise of process mapping service blueprinting being proficient in use of journey mapping tooling such as Figma MIRO Visio
• Extensive background in developing and implementing strategies that improve services to align with business goals and make customers happier.
• The ability to identify areas for improvement in services by aggregating and analysing customer feedback.
• Proficiency in creating and using metrics and indicators to measure service quality and make continuous improvements.
• Operational and digital strategy experience in particular translating customer comments into strategic action while mapping customer journeys

Its a bonus if you have but not essential

• Experience working in financial services in the UK
• Experience working on large integration and/or migration projects

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)plus the option to buy more.

• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.

• 20 weeks paid gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.

• Market-leading pension.

• Free private medical cover income protection and life assurance.

• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work wellness and health assessments and critical illness.

And theres no waiting around youll enjoy these benefits from day one.

If were lucky to receive a lot of interest we may close the advert early. Please ensure to submit your applications as soon as possible.

Say hello to Virgin Money

Virgin Money is so much more than just a bank. As part of theNationwide grouptogether were the UKs first full-service mutual bank serving millions of retail and business customers and all driven by our purpose; Banking but fairer more rewarding and for the good of society. With us youll be part of an organisation uniquely positioned to make a difference to the lives of customers communities and broader society and embark on a collaborative customer obsessed and fun-filled career journey. Embrace the weekdays enjoy fantastic perks and make a meaningful positive difference. Time to discover what it means to be part of the first mutual full-service banking provider.

Be yourself at Virgin Money

At Virgin Money we celebrate everyone. We have fun think big and relentlessly include each other all in pursuit of our purpose: Banking but fairer more rewarding and for the good of society.Were committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader were committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application contact our Talent Acquisition team

Please note: If we receive a high volume of eligible applications we may need to prioritise candidates whose skills and experience most closely align with the role while still ensuring fair and equitable consideration for all applicants.

Now the legal bit
Although some of our roles allow you to be based anywhere in the UK well need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If youre successful in securing a role with us there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime it requires enhanced pre-employment checks well ask for six years of regulatory references and once in the role youll be subject to periodic employment checks.