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Job Posting Title Technology and Data Demand Planning Manager (Family Leave Cover) Salary Band £47,221 - £70,832 Grade: MP1 Job Description About the Role As the Technology and Data Demand Manager, you will be responsible for aligning Technology and Data capacity with the delivery of strategic and operational changes across the organisation. Acting as the entry point for all Technology and Data related change, you will ensure that demand is triaged, assessed, and routed appropriately, balancing resource availability with operational resilience. You will ensure that business critical services and compliance obligations are protected whilst supporting the delivery of enterprise change. Working closely with the Enterprise Change and Demand Planning team, key stakeholders and delivery/scrum teams, you will represent the Technology and Data function in prioritisation forums, resolve demand conflicts, and provide visibility of capacity across BAU, change and operations. Ultimately, your role will enable joined up decision making, risk informed prioritisation and sustainable delivery planning. About You The successful candidate will bring proven experience in a technology leadership or strategic planning role, ideally within a change or transformation environment. You will have demonstrable expertise in developing and maturing forecasting and capacity modelling practices through collaborative approaches. A strong understanding of change management, operational management, and compliance controls is essential, along with hands-on experience in demand planning across both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. You should be comfortable maintaining operational stability during periods of significant change. You will possess deep knowledge of planning and resource modelling across matrixed or cross-functional teams, enabling informed decision-making and optimal resource utilisation across varying planning cadences. Experience in regulated environments is also required, with a strong grasp of IT risk, audit, and compliance standards to ensure ongoing adherence during both operational and change initiatives. A broad understanding of systems integration, infrastructure, and development pipelines is vital, supporting effective planning across diverse delivery models. In addition, you will have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, using data-led insights to improve transparency, manage expectations, and constructively challenge estimations and schedules, balancing long-term demand forecasting with the ability to respond to short-term delivery pressures and emerging priorities. About Us The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities. The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers. As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you. What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes: Financial Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%) Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution) Annual performance related pay reviews Colleague mortgage scheme Electric car salary sacrifice scheme Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection Access to our financial advisers Access to a range of high street and online discounts Work/Life Balance A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based) Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood Health and Wellbeing Private medical insurance Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme Access to an employee assistance programme Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s Two paid volunteering days’ each year Cycle to work scheme Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at dave.cowell@newcastle.co.uk Company: Newcastle Strategic Solutions Limited People are the focus of absolutely everything we do. We believe in people, we care deeply about their hopes, their dreams and their wellbeing. And that applies equally to our customers, our communities and our colleagues – which means you, if you choose to work here. it’s important to us that you know if you join us we will welcome you, respect you, encourage you and help you to achieve your goals.