Job Title: Technical Specialist
Contract Type: Permanent
Hiring Manager: David Lowe
Location: Alderley Park
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 22nd December 2025
We are seeking an expertly skilled and experienced Technical Expert to play a lead role in building amazing digital solutions for our customers and business users. The team will be focussed on delivering a new state-of-the-art investments platform, an undertaking that is expected to take several years.
You will be given the opportunity to grow your career within a team focussed on promoting internal career progression. This role is focussed on our Individual Long Term Savings and contributes to our purpose of strengthening the mutual choice for our customers, by providing the best technology solutions to our customers.
About the role
* Apply best project management practice to projects across the Long Term Savings value stream.
* Provide leadership to the project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.
* Articulate and demonstrate business acumen around cost and the impact on profitability.
* Define and agree required level of project resource needed for successful project delivery.
* Manage risks and issues, understanding a wider risk context associated with the business and the delivery.
* Build a collaborative, commercial relationship with 3rd parties to manage costs and maximise value.
* Implement appropriate level of Governance in-line with Group methods.
* Cost control on the project and understanding the impact this has on Group-wide financial performance and value to the customer .
About you
* Experience of working in projects within financial services.
* The ability to solve and unblock issues within teams or departments.
* An adaptable approach to communicating across all levels in Royal London.
* The skills to build consensus between organisations or highly independent and diverse stakeholders.
* Proactivity and future thinking around the management and control of project costs and benefits.
* Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate, and enhance performance within a cross - functional environment.
* Experience of leading project teams, building and maintaining the trust, confidence, commitment and collaboration of others.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.