Service Delivery & Operations Manager
UK Visa Sponsorship Analytics
Occupation Type
IT managers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£55,000
(£28.21 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
Job Description
In this role, you will oversee the day‑to‑day operation of live products and partnerships, acting as the escalation point for complex delivery issues and ensuring strong audit trails, regulatory boundaries, and continuous improvement. You will also act to coordinate and lead activity to operationalise new products and services, working across the Pensions Board to ensure that delivery models, systems, processes, and controls are in place before launch. This will include working closely with internal stakeholders to align housing, pensions, finance, digital platforms, customer services, and governance requirements, ensuring that products operate effectively, are clearly understood by colleagues, and appropriate for customers.
Responsibilities
Service Delivery and Operational Oversight
In this role, you will oversee the day‑to‑day operation of live products and partnerships, acting as the escalation point for complex delivery issues and ensuring strong audit trails, regulatory boundaries, and continuous improvement. You will also act to coordinate and lead activity to operationalise new products and services, working across the Pensions Board to ensure that delivery models, systems, processes, and controls are in place before launch. This will include working closely with internal stakeholders to align housing, pensions, finance, digital platforms, customer services, and governance requirements, ensuring that products operate effectively, are clearly understood by colleagues, and appropriate for customers.
Responsibilities
Service Delivery and Operational Oversight
- Coordinate the day‑to‑day operation of financial wellbeing products and partnership routes
- Act as the escalation point for complex delivery issues affecting customers, advisers, or partners, including speaking with individuals on a 1-1 basis as needed.
- Oversee access routes, eligibility criteria, and customer journeys
- Act as operational guardian of regulated advice boundaries and referral pathways, informed by expert advice
- Ensure clear audit trails for applications, referrals, spend, and outcomes, including ensuring utilisation/spend with partners or on products matches agreed budgets.
- Work closely with Finance, Audit, Risk, and Compliance teams to maintain assurance
- Identify operational, regulatory, or conduct risks and lead mitigation activity
- Ensure delivery of products aligns with safeguarding, data protection, and organisational policies
- Manage complaints about service delivery, including referring applicants to partner complaint processes where appropriate
Continuous Improvement and Insight
Qualifications
The Church of England is for everyone, and we want to reflect the diversity of the community the Church serves across the whole country. Therefore, while of course we welcome all applications from interested and suitably experienced people, we would particularly welcome applicants from UK Minoritised Ethnicities (UKME)/Global Majority Heritage (GMH) and other under-represented groups.
Essential
Knowledge and experience
- Gather insight from customer-facing colleagues, and customers to identify delivery improvements
- Feed operational learning into service refinement and future product development
- Support evaluation of pilots and early‑stage products, recommending refinements before scale‑up
- Lead the operational mobilisation of any new financial wellbeing products and services from approval through to live delivery
- Coordinate internal stakeholders across housing, pensions, finance, digital, customer services, and governance to ensure readiness for launch, including defining and documenting end‑to‑end customer journeys, access routes, eligibility criteria, and handover points
- Ensure systems, workflows, and digital platforms are configured to support new products
- Support internal training and briefing so colleagues understand new products, boundaries, and processes
Qualifications
The Church of England is for everyone, and we want to reflect the diversity of the community the Church serves across the whole country. Therefore, while of course we welcome all applications from interested and suitably experienced people, we would particularly welcome applicants from UK Minoritised Ethnicities (UKME)/Global Majority Heritage (GMH) and other under-represented groups.
Essential
Knowledge and experience
- Proven experience managing product delivery and other services within a regulated, customer facing environment facing environment‑facing environment
- Experience working with digital platforms or CRM systems to support service delivery
- Experience coordinating complex delivery across multiple teams or functions
- Strong organisational and coordination skills, with the ability to bring multiple stakeholders together
- Excellent problem solving and decision making capability‑solving and decision‑making capability
- Clear written communication and disciplined documentation
- High attention to detail and commitment to customer experience
- Comfortable working autonomously in a remote or matrixed environment
- Commitment to equality, inclusion, and organisational values
- A collaborative team player, comfortable working in a small team while engaging effectively with a wider organisation.
- Experience in financial wellbeing, pensions, housing, or welfare services
- Familiarity with regulated financial services environments and referral models
- Prior involvement in launching new services or pilots
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