Workplace Specialist

  • Full-time
  • Working Hours: 35 hours per week
  • Salary: Competitive
  • Department: Strategy & Transformation

Company Description

Here at esure, we’re no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we’re getting ready for more. It’s creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.

It’s an opportunity you simply don’t want to miss. You can expect our investment in you to include a highly competitive package, career and development opportunities and flexible benefits built around you and your lifestyle.

Job Description

We are currently looking for a Workplace Specialist to join our Business Readiness team on a 6 month fixed term contract basis.

You will be responsible for mobilising the new ways of working programme as part of our workplace design and transformation, and support on the cultural transformation which is essential to support the delivery of our Blueprint.

What you'll do:

  • Develop the location strategy for esure
  • Develop workplace and location design principles
  • Working with the facilities team, develop and manage the plan to execute the location strategy
  • Collaborate across the business to clearly define the flexible working approaches for all teams, including those who regularly deal with customers and those based in supporting and functional teams
  • Work with the senior leadership team to develop working styles for their own areas aligning to business requirements and promoting the employee value proposition
  • Develop the approach and plan to deploy the new flexible working approaches across the organisation, including physical environment fit out
  • Work with the communications team to ensure effective colleague communications
  • Ensure tracking against timescales and signpost risks and dependencies to exec sponsor as they arise
  • Support Lead with stakeholder management and engagement
  • Work collaboratively with other members of the Business Readiness team to effectively drive delivery of programmes

Qualifications

What you'll do:

  • Effective collaboration skills and the ability to build strong working relationships at all levels of the organisation
  • Proven track record of working as part of an organisational transformation
  • Experience in changing ways of working within customer-facing and support teams
  • Experience in achieving cultural change within complex environments
  • Experience of developing location strategies preferred but not essential
  • Strongly results oriented and focused on pragmatically getting to outcomes - comfortable to dig in and troubleshoot as needed
  • Willing to challenge business / commercial logic, supported by facts
  • Clear, concise communicator - ability to manage communication with key stakeholders
  • Financial acumen

Additional Information

What we will offer you in return:

  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays 
  • 25% discount on esure & Sheila’s Wheels insurance (10% for immediate family) or a guarantee to beat any other insurer’s renewal quote on both home and car insurance 
  • 15% Discount on esure and Sheila’s Wheels Travel Insurance
  • Discretional annual bonus 
  • Flu Jabs and Eye Care - Free flu jabs every winter, free eye tests every two years and £50 towards VDU glasses

 

In light of the current Covid-19 pandemic, we want to emphasise to all applicants that the safety and wellbeing of our candidates and colleagues is esure Group’s number one priority. All interviews will be conducted remotely via a video conference platform to ensure that everyone involved is adhering to the social distancing guidance.

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