Innovation Manager
Salary up to £65,000 (depending on location, skills, and experience)
Are you curious, creative, and ready to make a real impact? Do you enjoy solving meaningful problems and want to help shape the future of financial services. If you bring experience in insurance or wealth and a passion for building new ideas from the ground up, we’d love to hear from you.
A bit about the role
You’ll be part of Aviva’s Group Innovation team – a close-knit, senior team that reports directly to our Chief Innovation Officer. The team leads the enterprise-wide innovation agenda, developing new ideas, test what works, and turn insight into action. In this role, you’ll oversee the design and launch of new propositions. From exploring customer needs to validating ideas and taking them to market, you’ll help bring fresh thinking to life. You’ll work closely with colleagues across Aviva and with external partners to deliver meaningful change.
Skills and experience we're looking for
1. Knowledge of insurance and/or wealth, with a strong sense of how markets and customers are evolving
2. Hands-on experience in creating and delivering new propositions - from research through to launch
3. Familiarity with innovation tools and approaches, including design thinking, service design, and test-and-learn
4. Confidence in making decisions using evidence, with the ability to assess commercial potential and manage risk
5. Excellent communicator who can bring others along, work across teams, and stay focused on what matters most to customers
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.
6. Starting salary up to £65,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
7. Bonus opportunity - 10% (D grade) of annual salary. Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
8. Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
9. 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
10. Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
11. 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
12. Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
13. Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
14. Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
15. 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.