Technology and Data Demand Planning Specialist (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Newcastle Financial Advisers Limited; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services group in the UK is seeking a Technology and Data Demand Planning Specialist to join their team on a 12-month contract. This role involves collaborating with the Technology function to prioritize and manage technology change requests effectively. The ideal candidate will have solid experience in IT portfolio management and excellent stakeholder management skills. Flexibility, collaboration, and analytical abilities are key to driving measurable business outcomes while supporting a diverse workplace culture.

Benefits

Corporate bonus scheme

Pension scheme

Annual performance related pay reviews

Colleague mortgage scheme

Private medical insurance

30 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in IT portfolio management.
• Strong understanding of technology and data.
• Experience with Agile, DevOps, and Cloud delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Support the Technology and Data Planning Manager in demand management.
• Ensure business requirements are understood and translated.
• Maintain a strong connection to the Group's purpose.

Skills

IT portfolio management

Technology planning

Business relationship management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Organisational skills

Tools

Enterprise demand management tools

Job description

Technology and Data Demand Planning Specialist (12 Month Fixed Term Contract) page is loaded## Technology and Data Demand Planning Specialist (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)locations: Hybrid (Home/Cobalt Business Park)time type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdaytime left to apply: End Date: January 5, 2026 (17 days left to apply)job requisition id: JR574**Job Posting Title**Technology and Data Demand Planning Specialist (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)**Salary Band**£34,319 - £46,431**Job Description****About the Role** As Technology and Data Demand Planning Specialist you will support the Technology and Data Planning Manager in the process of collating, triaging and assigning change demand into the Technology function. Ensuring the appropriate prioritisation is determined and the planning of technology and data change requests are correctly assigned to delivery teams. This role ensures that business requirements are clearly understood, evaluated and translated into actionable initiatives that align with strategic priorities, available capacity, and budget. The position sits at the intersection of business strategy, IT delivery and data enablement, ensuring that investments in technology and data drive measurable business outcomes. You will maintain a strong connection to our Group purpose of ‘connecting our communities with a better financial future.’ Working in collaboration with the wider Groups’ leadership community, you will embrace and promote our culture that is focused on being creative, courageous, collaborative, efficient and accountable.**About You**We are looking for someone with demonstrable experience in IT portfolio management, technology planning or business relationship management with a strong understanding of technology and data, platforms and delivery models such as Agile, DevOps, and Cloud.As well as being experienced with enterprise demand management tools, you are expected to have a proven experience managing cross-functional planning and prioritisation processes and working in a large, matrixed, or regulated environment.We do require someone with a strategic mindset with operational discipline who has great stakeholder management skills across business and technical audiences by being highly collaborative and influential across business and technical functions and comfortable balancing competing priorities and managing ambiguity.Due to the nature of the role, you should possess strong analytical and organisational skills, being able to manage complex demand pipelines.The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities. The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers. As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.Financial* Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%)* Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)* Annual performance related pay reviews* Colleague mortgage scheme* Electric car salary sacrifice scheme* Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection* Access to our financial advisers* Access to a range of high street and online discountsWork/Life Balance * A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions* 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays* The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday* Hybrid working* Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthoodHealth and Wellbeing* Private medical insurance* Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme* Access to an employee assistance programme* Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s* Two paid volunteering days’ each year* Cycle to work schemeRecognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at [e-mail] Company:Newcastle Building Society