Service Designer

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Financial Ombudsman Full time
Service Designer
Are you looking for a role that enables you to design innovative service solutions, optimise service delivery, and create exceptional customer experiences?

Contract :
Permanent

Transformation Projects Enablement Manager
Our permanent hybrid policy sees us all working at least four days across a fortnight in the office

At the Financial Ombudsman Service, we're working to enhance our service by setting the standard for modern, efficient, accessible alternative dispute resolution.

Over recent years, the Service has undertaken significant change to improve our customer experience and our financial sustainability.

For the next phase of our journey, we have even bigger ambitions to reimagine our customer experience and we're determined to move at pace.

Working alongside Customer Journey Owners, Process Improvement specialists and technology platform owners, you will help improve the experiences of our customers by designing and optimising our services.

This work is critical to the success of the transformation portfolio, the achievement of our benefits and thus our strategic objectives.

Based on insights into the needs, behaviours and preferences of our customers, you will apply your expertise in customer-centred design thinking to design innovative service solutions, optimise service delivery, and create exceptional customer experiences.

You will employ research, design thinking, prototyping, and collaboration to develop and improve services that align with our goals and provide value to customers.

This is a role which demands specialist technical skills in a customer-centred service design, alongside strong communication and influencing skills.

Applying best practice methods in customer-centred service design to achieve our customer experience ambitions.

Customer understanding:

gathering the necessary data and commissioning the necessary research to gain insights into our customers' needs, behaviours and preferences.


Design and innovation:

applying design thinking methodologies to map customer journeys, define touchpoints, and design service blueprints that outline the end-to-end customer experience.


Problem definition and solutioning:
engaging stakeholders in activities to gather feedback and validate service ideas.

Optimisation:

the ongoing analysis and optimisation of services to enhance the overall customer experience, proposing and working with others to implement changes to streamline processes, and improve efficiency and customer experience.


Communication and visualisation:

using visual tools and techniques to communicate service concepts, ideas, and improvements in an easy-to-understand format for varying audiences.

This includes creating service design artefacts such as service maps, customer journey maps, personas and service blueprints to convey insights and recommendations to stakeholders.


Engagement and collaboration:

engaging and collaborating with stakeholders throughout the design process at all levels of the organisation, including through the facilitation of ideation and customer-centred design workshops.

Being an advocate for customer-centricity, with the ability to develop and translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs and engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users.

A proven track record of using best practice service design methodologies to achieve meaningful improvements in a customer-focused service organisation.

Using data, insights and design thinking and agile ways of working to design, develop, test and iterate service offerings.

Ability to create service design artefacts and outputs, such as current and future-state user journeys, personas, service concepts, service blueprints and other artefacts.

Facilitating workshops, design sprints, ideation sessions or similar.

Strong stakeholder management skills, including at the most senior levels of the organisation, with the ability to balance competing views as part of the design process.

You should hold a recognised certification and / or qualification in Service Design or Design Thinking, such as (but not exclusive to) Google UX design certificate or Service Design Practitioner certification through the Service Design Network.

Why Financial Ombudsman Service?
We also offer an attractive, competitive salary and flexible benefits to suit our people. 25 days holiday entitlement, with the option to buy extra or sell days
Employer provided benefits such as Private medical insurance, virtual GP, Critical illness cover, Life assurance cover, to name a few
Choice of voluntary benefits including Technology scheme, Cycle to work scheme, Will-writing service amongst others
Employee Assistance Programme
Extensive opportunities for personal and career development
Fully equipped on-site gym open 24 / 7 (London office only)
Extensive Well-being resources including on-site therapists (London office only)
Beautiful and bright London office looking over the Thames and near to mainline stations
Our Coventry office is 2 minutes' walk from the main station

Our employee led networks do fantastic work in educating and raising awareness across a range of experiences and support us in being an inclusive employer and a great place to work.

Applications need to be submitted by midnight on Tuesday 11th June 2024
We view diversity as fundamental to our success and welcome applications from underrepresented groups across all communities.

We understand that if we're diverse and inclusive, we'll better understand different perspectives, which is fundamental to our job resolving financial complaints.

We welcome applications from Black and other ethnic minority candidates, and female candidates, for all positions and particularly so for senior leader positions as they are under-represented within the Financial Ombudsman Service at this level.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. A minimum criterion needs to be measurable from reviewing a candidate's CV/supporting statement.

If you would like to speak to a member of our team about any reasonable adjustments you need, please email -ombudsman.

Check out below channels to find out more about everyday life at the Financial Ombudsman Service – and don't forget to follow us while you're there
We're an independent, not-for-profit organisation that sorts out disputes between financial businesses and their customers. The Financial Ombudsman Service is an equal opportunities employer.

All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law, regardless of gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation.

We understand that if we're diverse and inclusive, we'll better understand different perspectives, which is fundamental to our job resolving financial complaints.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

You will need to demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria in your CV in order to qualify for the Disability Confident scheme.

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