Value Stream Lead

Job Description:

Value Stream

Brighton or London

Permanent

Highly Competitive Salary + 10% bonus + fantastic benefits

Full time: 35 hours per week

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

Bupa Global is the international health insurance division of Bupa. We provide customers who want premium international coverage with products and services to access the healthcare they need anytime, around the world, whether at home or when studying, living, travelling or working abroad.

Bupa Global has offices around the world including London and Brighton (UK), Dublin (Europe), Miami (USA), Dubai (UAE, in partnership with OIC), Egypt and Hong Kong (China) as well as regional offices in mainland China, Singapore, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Panama, Guatemala and Ecuador.

The role

We’re looking for established change professionals who bring a delivery focus, dexterity, creativity, and a lean-agile mindset to deliver quality outcomes for our customers and colleagues.

As a Value Stream Lead you will be passionate about delivering value, optimising the flow of work, and ensuring quality. You’ll be working closely with teams across both technical and non-technical areas of the business, optimising planning, and delivery activity, ensuring we deliver in the most efficient & agile way, with measurable value. We’re particularly keen to hear from candidates who’ve operated in mixed delivery environments (Project & Product).

This is a terrific opportunity to be at the heart of a rich, diverse portfolio of change, transformative in nature and making a real difference to people’s lives.  Interested? You can learn more about the role and get in touch via the link.

You’ll help us make health happen by

Owning and driving effective planning, coordination, and oversight of change delivery activity within the BG Transformation and Change Portfolio as it relates to a Portfolio Value Stream, projects, or programmes, employing lean-agile principles and best practice to relentlessly focus on business value, the flow of work, and quality outputs.
Ensuring a sustained focus on dependency management, scheduling, and coordination, optimising the flow of technical and non-technical work through the Value Stream and across the wider portfolio, always ensuring that prioritization is aligned to stated business outcomes, and the ‘next most important thing’ is well defined, understood, and forms part a prioritized, well-developed Value Stream Backlog.
Value Stream-level delivery planning, actively contributing to portfolio operations and ensuring completeness of information, consistency, and predictability, whilst contributing to key governance events, ensuring inputs are of the required quality and completeness.  The Value Stream Lead will own and drive quarterly planning cycle, establishing the quarterly ‘rhythm’ underpinning delivery and ensuring outputs are of the requisite quality and completeness whilst equipping the Value Stream team for key quarterly  governance events
Establishing and maintaining strong, effective and trusted relationships with Sponsors, Governance committees and key stakeholders across the business, ensuring stakeholders are fully briefed on all aspects of delivery activity and meaningfully engaged with prioritisation and planning process
Ensuring robust and measurable value cases exist with clearly identified and traceable business outcomes
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

Knowledge and expertise of managing aggregated change activity
Expertise and experience in coordinating teams, resources, and delivery planning
Be highly results oriented and focussed on adding value. Possess strong commercial acumen and broad business awareness.
Must be able to demonstrate established stakeholder management skills across a wide range of stakeholders.
Experience of working in a regulated and compliance led environment.
Have a tenacious approach to problem solving, constantly striving for effective solutions.
Must be proficient in risk, resource, and cost management.
Experience of different business and IT delivery methodologies (eg, MSP, Prince2, Lean, Agile, SDLC).
Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.