Propositions Design Manager

Bupa Angel Court (1 Angel Court, London, EC2R 7HJ)
Bupa Victory House (Trafalgar Place, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 4FY)
Bupa Place (102 The Quays in Salford, England M50 3SP)
Can be based out of any of the above offices

Full Time Permanent - 35 hours per week
From £58,700 dependent upon experience and qualifications
Hybrid Working (1-3 days per week in office)

We make health happen
You’ll sit alongside a passionate and talented multi-disciplinary experience design team, made up of user researchers, product designers, content designers and design operations, who are focused on creating the best digital experiences for Bupa’s customers in the UK.

As an experienced design lead you will have deep domain expertise across service and product design. You will lead projects, establish service design at Bupa and mentor other team members. You will work collaboratively in an agile environment to create positive experiences that are easy to use and balance the needs of Bupa’s customers with its business goals. You will also build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, collaborators and other design team members.

You will line manage a group of designers and provide mentorship and support to facilitate development, encourage growth and foster a culture of care and candour.

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.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• You will have strong service design skills, paired with product design 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 and set the standard for service design across products and services at Bupa 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 an experienced voice of the customer you’ll build advocacy amongst key stakeholders - evangelising the principles and processes of service design.
• You will be confident leading large projects or programmes of work and task managing people within those projects.
• You will lead playbacks, support in 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.
• Lead and support user research activities, ensuring insights from qualitative and quantitative research meaningfully inform service and product design decisions.

What you will need:

• Service design mindset – when approaching a problem you take a wide view, looking front and backstage, and end to end by default.
• Experience contributing to and shaping user research activities, with the ability to translate research findings into clear insights, opportunities and design direction.
• Experience creating customer journey maps, service blueprints, flows and more.
• You are very comfortable working alongside researchers analysing and synthesising research work.
• A strong facilitator who can bring together and engage others in your service design work in workshops and collaborative sessions.
• Established ‘design thinker’ with empathy for user needs, a willingness to explore ideas and implement a ‘test and learn’ approach before launch.
• A great storyteller capable of influencing and encouraging stakeholders and peers.
• Accustomed to working in an FCA regulated business is a bonus.
• 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.

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.

Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.