L&Q
Senior Service Designer
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Senior Service Designer
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time, 35 hours
Salary: Starting from £78,544 per annum (London weighted salary) or £68,571 per annum (Regional salary), dependant on experience
Grade: 12
Reporting Office: London, Stratford or Manchester, Trafford
Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)
Closing Date: 21st October 2026
Interview Dates: W/C 02/11/26 Please note that in person interviews will be held for at least one of the interview stages for this role
Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.
L&Q reserves the right to not progress applications for candidates who have had one unsuccessful application/interview process with L&Q for the same or similar role in the previous 12 months.
Join our Business Design and Architecture Team at L&Q:
L&Q is one of the UK’s largest housing associations and providers of social and affordable homes. We house around 250,000 people primarily across Greater London and Greater Manchester. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.
Our transformation and change portfolio is service design led. It spans full operating model change across the Group, covering ways of working, process, team structures, systems, data and reporting. This role sets the standard for how that design work is done, and shapes the journeys that 250,000 residents and thousands of colleagues experience.
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As Senior Service Designer, you will:
- Lead the experiential view of L&Q's Target Operating Model: the target end-to-end journeys and the services that enable them.
- Hold this view alongside our Senior Business Architect, who holds the structural view. Together, the two disciplines give L&Q one coherent picture of how it works today and how it needs to work.
- Lead the service design team, including two direct and four indirect reports, and work with external service design partners.
- Direct and quality assure external service design partners alongside the permanent team.
- Lead the design and continuous improvement of target journeys, service blueprints and service patterns, and the service design principles that guide change across the Group.
- Lead service design on priority transformation work from discovery through to delivery.
- Represent service design in Design Assurance, making sure change meets our regulatory obligations and moves L&Q towards its target without breaking what works.
- Grow user-centred and systems thinking capability across L&Q, including within our Business Analysis practice and among operational leaders.
- Work closely with the Senior Business Architect, Business Analysis leads, programme teams, technology and data experts, and resident involvement colleagues to deliver joined up change.
What you'll bring:
- Substantial experience leading end-to-end, multi-channel service design in complex organisations.
- Demonstrable user-centred research and inclusive design practice, including with people in vulnerable circumstances.
- Experience designing services as part of wider operating model or organisational change.
- Experience leading design professionals and building design capability in others.
- Demonstrable experience influencing senior leaders and working across disciplines to deliver change.
- Ideally but not essential, experience in social housing or another regulated, resident or citizen-facing sector.
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About L&Q:
We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.
250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.
People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values, which outline our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q – click here to read more.
At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do. When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Find out more here.
Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.
Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!
If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!
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