Strategic Product Leader

Description:

Your role: In this role, you would work closely with our Executive Vice President of Personal Lines Product Management (PLPM) on initiatives ranging from strategy and planning to special projects.

Your work:

• Be empowered to operate at a tactical, strategic and operational level, handling the oversight of projects that do not neatly fit within the organizational chart or that fall between departmental areas of responsibility.

• Impact the Product Direct Leadership team’s productivity through streamlining strategic initiatives between departments and across the company.

• Improve and directly impact decisions and processes, and your work will increase the speed, efficiency and execution of product initiatives within the division and across the company.

• Assist with communicating priorities, activities and results to the larger organization, while ensuring deliverables are met. You will maintain a strong pulse and feedback loop on organizational needs.

• Work hand in hand with colleagues on the Technology, Finance, Strategy & Innovation, Customer Experience and Marketing, People and Community, Operations and Legal teams to achieve enterprise objectives and form core business initiative performance targets.

• Be nimble in helping to meet ad hoc business needs in an expedited manner.

• Influence and drive the priorities of the leadership team, including identifying opportunities to increase leadership team effectiveness.

• Drive shared alignment around strategy for the continued development and evolution of the Personal Lines Product division, assisting with forming a plan with clear goals and asks, executing and monitoring progress.

• Work with various business leaders and clients to understand required capabilities to achieve vision and to define programs and projects which will deliver the required capabilities. Partners with the business to prioritize a portfolio of projects which will achieve business strategies and imperatives.

• Conduct high level reviews of project charters and work plans, confirming appropriateness of project approach and that cross-functional work streams have been included to facilitate success in the delivery of project/program.

• Lead the integration analysis of project/program efforts to identify and address interdependencies of functionality, schedule and high-level change management issues. Facilitates understanding and management of cross-project dependencies.

• Identify delivery portfolio risks and issues and determines and implements corrective action to mitigate risks and potential impacts to the enterprise.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to all, recommending improvements on planning, new ideas, project delivery, business analysis, process design and execution.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments and roles within tight timelines.

• Resilience in order to thrive in a highly ambiguous and complex environment.

• Strong customer relationship, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Effective decision-making skills, even under pressure and while sometimes lacking all of the desired information.

• Ability and willingness to navigate and shape interpersonal complexities to ensure cross-functional teams are operating at their highest level.

• Expert program and project management competence and skills.

• Expert analytical, planning, problem solving and solution design skills.

• Ability to discern between best theoretical solutions and best realistic solutions.

• Expertise and proven track record in managing complex, multifunctional initiatives.

• Ability to communicate your ideas and solutions in simple and compelling language tailored to multiple audiences and across multiple mediums (verbal, written, presentation).

• Ability to provide direction and perform responsibilities via influence (as opposed to line management authority).

Required Experience, Education and Skills

• BS/BA Degree in business, engineering, economics, finance, information technology, mathematics, physics or similar quantitative field or an equivalent combination of education and experience (preferred advanced degree in related area).

• 10+ years of consulting or related experience, including multi-year experience consulting on improving and optimizing business operations and processes and substantial interaction with senior executives.

• 10+ years of program/project management experience.