Transformation Programme Planner

Aviva Direct Ireland Limited; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in the UK seeks a Transformation Programme Planner for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The ideal candidate will provide expert planning and delivery support, ensuring realistic and logically sequenced plans. Key skills include planning expertise, strong analytical skills, and effective communication. This role offers a salary between £60,000 and £70,000 with various benefits, including a generous pension scheme and flexible working options.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity of 12%

Generous pension scheme up to 14%

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit

Up to 40% discount on Aviva products

Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares

Supportive policies including parental leave

Flexible benefits including sustainability options

3 paid volunteering days

Wellbeing support and tools

Qualifications

• Deep experience in planning roles within complex, multi-workstream programmes.
• Excellent analytical skills to distil complexity for stakeholders.
• Strong communication and influencing skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert programme planning and delivery support across strategic initiatives.
• Ensure plans are realistic and aligned with programme objectives.
• Act as an objective planning partner to establish robust delivery baselines.

Skills

Planning expertise

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Problem analysis

Tools

MS Project

Planview

Jira

Job description

Overview

Transformation Programme Planner

12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Starting salary: between c. £60,000 and c. £70,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

Location: Norwich, York, Sheffield and Bristol

This is a great job for someone who thrives in complex change environments and is passionate about enabling successful programme delivery. It would suit someone with exceptional programme planning expertise and a strong understanding of change and transformation.

A bit about the job

As a member of the C&M Transformation Team, you’ll provide expert programme planning and delivery support across our strategic initiatives in the portfolio, ensuring plans are realistic, logically sequenced, and clearly linked to programme objectives, benefits, and milestones. You will work closely with Sponsors, Programme Leads, and delivery teams to shape, optimise and assure the plans that underpin high‑priority C&M outcomes.

You must be comfortable working with ambiguity, shaping structure where none exists, and operating across all lifecycle stages. Creative thinking, problem analysis and the ability to anticipate delivery challenges early are key attributes for this role.

You’ll build transparency around planning assumptions, risks and dependencies, and support decision‑making through scenario planning and optionality. Acting as an objective planning partner, you’ll help establish robust delivery baselines, define clear hand‑offs and escalation triggers, and ensure logical, achievable critical paths.

You’ll also play a key role in improving planning maturity across C&M Transformation by embedding best practice, supporting portfolio‑level reporting and ensuring consistent planning standards across our work.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• Deep experience in planning roles within complex, multi‑workstream programmes.
• Strong capability with planning and project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Planview, Jira).
• Experience working in a transformation, change, or programme/portfolio management environment.
• Excellent analytical skills — able to distil complexity and create clarity for senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to constructively challenge and steer direction.

What you’ll get 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 promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary between c. £60,000 and c. £70,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone

We’re inclusive 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 – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100 or send an email to [e-mail]