Head of Design, Lending

**Work type**: Permanent Full time **Location**: VIC- Melbourne CBD **It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more opportunity, more moments to make a difference and more focus on you.** Here at NAB, we value design and we ensure that design is at the forefront of our decision-making process. Our design ambition is simple - design and launch experiences that inform, empower and delight customers and colleagues, creating lasting value for customers and for our business. "#LI-DNI" - **Lead a great design team and be the support mechanism to create an engaging and highly collaborative culture**: - **Design accountability across the Lending Domains**: - **Influence and prioritise customer led solutions and deliver impactful design**: - **Evangelist of Human Centred Design across the entire enterprise**: - **Help grow great leaders who inspire and energise their teams** **About the role** Join one of Australia’s largest design teams as a Design Manager led by our new Chief Design Officer. The Head of Design, Lending will own the overall design strategy and hold accountability for the design experiences within the Lending Chapter in the nab.design team. This role will provide direction for end-to-end experience for our customers and colleagues across digital, physical, and human channels, by partnering with the business and other design teams. **Roles and Responsibilities**: - Understanding of group business requirements, strategies and priorities to enable translation into Digital, Data & Analytics (DD&A) strategies and operations plans. Gain Leadership Team approval for strategic outcomes. - Direct and oversee the provision of high-quality diagnostic, analysis and advisory services across the group in line with the business and customer requirements. - Contribute directly to the strategic direction of DD&A as a member of the nab.design senior leadership group. Ensure the maximum value is derived from our global position in the market. - Act as an advocate for the nab.design chapter, ensuring that business units are engaged to align their business needs with the DD&A strategies. - Lead and motivate team members including role modelling behaviours, coaching, mentoring, performance management and the identification of training and development needs. **What you will bring**: - Thinks broadly within defined strategies and policies to meet business needs. These roles have the scope to adapt the budgets, policies, and procedures within broadly defined parameters. - Deliver and manage the operational requirements or outcomes of a team that is integrated across the enterprise to agreed metrics/objectives. - Strategic thought leadership across the team, defining a vision for a future customer experience and influence stakeholders of transformation charters and roadmaps to deliver on that vision. - Collaborate and influence senior business stakeholders to ensure experiences match customer expectations and positively drive NPS. - Direct the overall quality of experience design at NAB. - Coach and develop team members personally and professionally in their roles. - Connect the business with the value of HCD and drive a shift in mindset across the organisation to deliver on exceptional experiences for our customers. **A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone** At NAB, we’re intent on building a culture we can all be proud of. One based on trust and respect. An uplifting environment where every single one of us feels appreciated and empowered to be our true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be. **More focus on you** We’re committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities. **NAB, invested in you** At NAB, we believe success comes from our people. We're committed to supporting your talent and skills through your career, as you help us build a culture that affects change for our customers - and for the community too. To be eligible to apply, you must have Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency status. - Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.