Technology Strategy and Planning Manager

Our Technology Business Management (TBM) team sits at the heart of OSB Group's technology strategy and execution. TBM acts as a chief of staff function for the Chief Information Officer and Technology Senior Leadership Team who manage the Technology division for OSB; comprising approx. 700 colleagues located in UK and India, and an annual budget of approx. £80M on technology-enabled change, technology operations, engineering, security and data capabilities.

The TBM team bring together expertise in technology enabled business investment lifecycle, portfolio management, technology risk and controls, third-party management, technology finance, technology-wide communications, organisational design effectiveness, coordination of cross-functional activities, and production of management information, dashboards and formal ExCo/Board reports to enable OSB to make smart, data‑driven decisions about how we run, invest in and protect our technology landscape.

The team partners closely with the Lending, Savings, Domains and Enabling Functions Value Streams, and with Engineering, Cyber Security, Data, and Technology Operations supporting functions to operate and deliver a transparent, inter-connected and value‑focused technology environment. The team also collaborates with Group functions such as HR, Finance, Risk, Legal, Operations on cross‑functional activities and to facilitate Technology inputs to group‑wide objectives and deadlines.

Within TBM, Strategy and Planning is a small, specialist squad of multi-skilled practitioners who work on a wide variety of planned and ad hoc activities across all of Technology and with the business, as well as providing consultancy, information and aggregates data from multiple sources for other teams to use.

The Technology Strategy & Planning Manager plays a key role in enabling the Technology Senior Leadership Team to shape, develop, communicate and deliver the organisation's technology vision, strategy, target operating model changes, and mid‑to‑long term planning horizons and roadmaps. The role combines strategic planning, business insight, business analysis and executive communications to support informed decision‑making and drive alignment across Technology and the wider business.

Working collaboratively with business and technology stakeholders, the role brings together business and technical knowledge and data insights for investment business cases and tracking outcome realisation; balancing value, risk, and cost to surface opportunities, alternative options, critical dependencies, high‑level requirements and delivery capabilities needed to provide a holistic view of delivery of strategic priorities and outcomes. Acting as a trusted partner to the Chief Information Officer and Technology Senior Leadership Team, the role supports the leadership team and business stakeholders with effective communication of technology strategy options, execution progress, technology risk mitigation and achieved vs planned value realisation

The role also champions colleague engagement and supports embedding ways of working that improve organisational effectiveness, including facilitating divisional and cross‑functional process / workflow improvements coaching on enterprise‑wide and team onagile practices, strengthening technology-wide capabilities in change planning and prioritisation, surfacing transparency of thematic risks and opportunities, and supporting the effectiveness of technology management and governance disciplines required to support the CIO's Senior Manager Function (SMF) accountabilities.

Through strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration with Internal Communications, the Technology Strategy & Planning Manager ensures consistent,…