Caroline R.

Passionate about product and service design to really make a difference to user experience and drive business outcomes.

Chippenham, England, United Kingdom

About

I love what I do! I am passionate about connecting the end user to the business through product to really make a difference and to use technology to enable this. I am fascinated at what technology can do especially when we look at how it can help solve problems and address user needs so that it enables better experiences and drives value. I’m naturally collaborative and curious and a strong believer that everyone matters. I have a consultative leadership style and I love to inspire and encourage those around me and bring out the potential in individuals and teams. I believe that there is much more to life than work and so in my spare time you will most likely find me outside walking, running or hanging out with my family. My specialist areas include product management, innovation and service design in complex organisations but have also had the opportunity to work in a start up environment within a large organisation and worked with many FinTechs.

Experience

  • Head of New Propositions and Business Change at MotoNovo Finance
    Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Leading a team of Product and Proposition Owners. Development and delivery of new propositions to support the strategic ambitions of MotoNovo. Responsible for the roadmap, backlog and prioritisation to deliver the business change agenda for existing products and propositions as well as new propositions.

  • Customer Journey Owner, PayGo at OVO
    Jan 2024 - Mar 2024 · 3 mos

    Supported OVO as they moved to value streams and focussing on customer journeys. - Roadmap development and ownership - Identification and prioritisation of initiatives to support strategic outcomes - Driving cross collaborative working

  • Career Break at null
    Oct 2023 - Dec 2023 · 3 mos

  • Nationwide Building Society (14 yrs 5 mos)
    • Chief Product Owner, Retail Services
      May 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Drive a cross functional delivery model across Retail Services with Technology and Delivery to bring about change to the applications that colleagues in Branch and Contact Centres use. Responsible for the product vision, building the roadmaps and engaging collaboratively with stakeholders to prioritise change whilst aligning to organisational strategy.

    • Chief Product Owner, Banking App and Internet Bank
      Jan 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Lead an empowered team of Product Owners to prioritise features and change and to run Nationwide's digital banking services which are used by millions of members every month. - Grew mobile activation and achieved a consistent App Store rating of 4.8* for iOS - Realising outcomes aligned to the strategic priorities of Nationwide through the creation and delivery against a roadmap, prioritising change within funding and capacity and to deliver against member, commercial and risk outcomes - Delivery of key features including Chat in the Internet Bank, enrichment of card transactions within the Banking App, ApplePay, enabling key customer journeys to be undertaken through digital banking - Running resilient services within operational and conduct risk appetite - Lead direct and matrix teams delivering change using agile methods

    • Head of Design, Nationwide for business
      Jul 2018 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Asked to set up and lead the Design team for Nationwide for business to design and deliver a mobile first business banking proposition for Nationwide using greenfield technology. Led a team of over 10 designers including service design, design research, product design, content design and usability.

  • Project Manager at Lloyds TSB
    Oct 2008 - Jun 2009 · 9 mos