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Governance & Delivery Specialist

Job ID: 010372

Location: Bradford, UK, BD5 8LJ

Job type: Permanent - Full Time

Salary: From £31,500 - £39,375 Dependant upon Experience + Bonus & Benefits

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As a Governance & Delivery Specialist, you’ll provide specialist first-line governance, change and control support across Supply Chain Management, helping to ensure activity is controlled, prioritised and delivered through clear and consistent processes.

You will-

  • Coordinate and govern change activity, ensuring requests are assessed, prioritised and routed appropriately, while maintaining visibility of actions, risks and decisions.

  • Strengthen process governance and audit readiness by ensuring documentation, approvals, evidence and remediation actions are accurately maintained and tracked.

  • Support the maintenance and improvement of processes, forms, templates, workflows and documentation, helping to embed process and tooling improvements.

  • Maintain governance data, trackers and reporting inputs, providing clear visibility of actions, risks, decisions, exceptions and change activity.

  • Produce clear communications on governance changes, process updates and operating model developments, supporting stakeholder awareness and adoption of agreed ways of working.

About you

You’ll be a highly organised and detail-focused professional with strong governance discipline, confident stakeholder management skills and the ability to coordinate activity across multiple workstreams.

  • Strong organisational and coordination skills, with the ability to assess and prioritise competing demands based on risk, urgency, capacity and business impact.

  • Good understanding of governance frameworks, risk management, controls, approvals and audit requirements, with experience coordinating actions, risks, decisions and issues.

  • Experience maintaining accurate operational documentation, templates, trackers and process artefacts, with excellent attention to detail.

  • Clear communication and confident stakeholder management skills, including the ability to simplify governance requirements, challenge constructively and escalate issues appropriately.

  • Experience supporting change adoption, stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement, with familiarity with SharePoint, Microsoft Forms, workflow tools and collaboration platforms.

About Our Benefits

Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…

  • Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)

  • On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)

  • Access to brilliant health benefits

  • Life assurance at 6 times your salary

  • 25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)

  • Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket

  • Wellbeing resources and tools

  • Retail and Leisure discounts

Find out more about what we offer

Learning & Development

Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.

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These include...

  • Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
  • Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
  • Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
  • Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
  • REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
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Our Colleague Networks & Groups

Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.

Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:

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Community and Charity

Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.

We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.

Hear from some of our people about what working at Yorkshire Building Society is like, and what it means for them…

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Our ways of working

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We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. And help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.

Whether you’re in an office-based team or your team is spread across the country, you’ll have lots of chances to get together with your colleagues for those Moments that Matter – which are all about building wonderful relationships and strong bonds with your colleagues.

Find out more about our Ways of Working here:

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