As Group Head of Savings Proposition & Planning, reporting to the Group Savings Director, this role will lead the strategic development, planning, and delivery of the Group’s savings propositions, products, and partnership strategy across all brands.  You will oversee and support a high-performing team, shaping a competitive and innovative customer proposition, identifying strategic funding partnerships and coordinating a roadmap that aligns with the Group’s strategic goals.

The role has the flexibility to be based from Wolverhampton or Chatham and will require regular travel to London.

As Group Head of Savings Proposition & Planning you will have a strong background and understanding across the UK savings market to drive savings strategy proposition through innovation, whilst championing the customer experience through the development of a well coordinated and strategic roadmap for each brand.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Oversee design and implementation of the savings customer proposition and experience enhancement programmes, product and proposition plans across our savings brands and across all channels and partnerships
• Identify new markets, customer segments, products, propositions and channels that provide access to new funding
• Provide savings leadership and support into Group Strategic programmes and where appropriate lead the shaping, requirements gathering and implementation of such initiatives
• Building and maintaining relationships with the Marketing, Finance, Digital, Customer and Operational teams to identify and understand development opportunities
• Lead the development of the Group’s strategic partnerships for savings including an in-depth understanding of the partnerships/deposit aggregator environment to capitalise and grow our offering helping the Group diversify its funding

With a number of exciting opportunities in this role, you will be part of the transformation project which will create a new operating platform for the business.  As the company and team grows, so should you!

• Base salary from £95,000 dependant upon experience
• Enhanced family-focused benefits
• £7500 car allowance
• Annual bonus opportunity up to 40% + LTIPs
• 30 days annual leave + bank holidays

Please use this link to see the fantastic benefits available at OSB: https://www.osb.co.uk/careers/overview

At OSB Group, we understand how much our people bring to our organisation, which is why we try our best to give back too! Our Purpose is to help our customers, colleagues and communities prosper and we are on a transformation journey to become ‘the bank of the future’.

Our commitment to professional development, flexible working, and employee well-being fosters a dynamic and supportive workplace.

We are looking for talented individuals who have the experience and knowledge set out below:

• Proven experience of leading and managing proposition and product teams within the financial services sector
• Extensive previous experience of leading the strategic development, planning and delivery of savings customer propositions, new products and partnership strategies within an online market, including app management, for a multi brand proposition
• Detailed and in depth knowledge of the UK saving market, regulation, customer trends, savings book trends and behaviours
• Track record of product development and management withing financial services
• Demonstrable experience of leading a successful propositions team
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues at all levels of the organisation

We also believe that your career and how you progress is as unique as your individual personality. We continually support our people so they can become the best version of themselves.

If this sounds like you, please apply now! For internal applications please visit the internal careers page to apply.

Still on the fence? Hear from our team or explore our process: OSB Careers

Shortlisted candidates will go through a personalised recruitment process, that is relevant and conversational – inclusive any individual reasonable support required. We want to bring out the best in you!

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

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We know life doesn’t always stick to a 9–5, let’s chat about what flexibility could look like for you.

Research tells us that those from marginalised groups feel like they need to meet 100% of the criteria to apply. Here at OSB, we are committed to inclusivity and understand the value different experiences and perspectives can bring, so please don’t feel like you need to check every box to apply for a role internally.

We champion diversity at all levels, with Board-level Diversity Champions tracking our progress. We are proud to be signed up to the Women in Finance Charter to actively support the growth and development of senior women in our sector and are dedicated to treating all our employees and job applicants equally, opposed to discrimination on any grounds.