Service Designer Contract

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  • Job type

    Contract
  • Location

    United Kingdom
  • Working Pattern

    Full-time
  • Specialism

    Projects & Change Management
  • Industry

    Insurance
  • Pay

    £600 per day inside IR35

Service Designer Contract Opportunity

Your new company

We are currently working with a leading, reputable insurance company – supporting them with their recruitment of a service designer on a contract basis.
The organisation is going through huge periods of growth recently, this requirement is going to be as part of their ongoing ambition to improve their online services for their customers.

The contract on offer is going to be for 6 months (with potential extensions)
This role is going to be working remotely most of the time, with the requirement to go on site in Manchester around once per month.


Your new role

  • You will have strong service design skills, paired with product design or research
    skills/background. You will identify and solve customer and business problems, using service design, design thinking and product design approaches and methods.
  • You'll provide direction for service design across products and services to improve the customer experience.
  • Support and inspire others in the team, up-skilling and training them in service design thinking and methods.
  • Generate concepts, proposals and plans for new service propositions, or to evolve and improve existing services.
  • As a voice of the customer you'll build advocacy amongst key stakeholders - evangelising the principles and processes of service design.
  • You will be confident leading projects and task managing people within those projects.
  • You will contribute to playbacks, design crits and other communities of practice sessions to highlight your discipline's work, enable constructive feedback and elevate the quality of the craft.
  • Helping to maintain and improve the inherent pillars of our team's culture; psychological safety, celebrating success, and learning from each other.
  • Confident mediation across the demands of a business, the needs of the customer and the feasibility of the tech stack to design the right thing and design the thing right.

What you'll need to succeed

  • Service design mindset – when approaching a problem you take a wide view, looking front and backstage, and end to end by default. You are then able to identify specific areas of opportunity for more detailed analysis, both strategic (supporting commercial goals, balancing feasibility with desirability) and user-focussed, ensuring a human-centred approach.
  • Experience creating customer journey maps, service blueprints, flows and more - paired with an understanding of when to use each method to understand and improve a specific situation.
  • You are very comfortable working alongside researchers analysing and synthesising research work, uncovering insights from both qualitative and quantitative research.
  • You can navigate complex areas of a business and its journeys across multiple channels. You are then able to communicate what matters most to our customers, colleagues, internal teams and business.
  • Comfortable facilitator who can bring together and engage others in your service design work in workshops and collaborative sessions.
  • A champion of the customer throughout whilst staying in touch with the business requirements.
  • You set the standard for your peers and the organisation.
  • Established ‘design thinker' with empathy for user needs, a willingness to explore ideas and implement a ‘test and learn' approach before launch.
  • Strong storytelling skills, capable of influencing and encouraging stakeholders and peers to adopt and buy into something that was previously unfamiliar.
  • Accustomed to working in an FCA regulated business is a bonus.
  • Adept in managing complexity across multiple streams of work.
  • Knowledgeable across our toolkit that includes Figma and UserTesting.com
  • A champion for accessibility who acknowledges the needs of users with different backgrounds, abilities, cultures, and environments.
  • A motivator of peers and the ongoing progression of their craft, while identifying new ways to develop skills to keep up with marketplace, industry and technology trends.


What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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