Senior Transformation Program Leader
| Company | Guardian Life |
|---|---|
| Location | Boston, MA, USA, Holmdel, NJ, USA, New York, NY, USA, Bethlehem, PA, USA |
| Salary | $129500 – $212750 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 4-year bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience with minimum of 5 years of insurance industry experience
- 10+ plus years of portfolio management, management consulting, program management, product, or operations experience
- Successfully led at least 5+ division-level, cross-functional strategic investment programs
- Can work in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
- Self-starter, highly motivated, strategic thinker who can lead independent stakeholder conversations and provide thought leadership
- Can drive portfolio-aligned business results across Business and technology disciplines
- Strong, proven communications, collaboration, and consensus building skills, along with active listening skills
- Ability to adjust communication style and content to different levels and audiences
- Experience synthesizing conceptual strategies into defendable investment proposals and leading complex programs
- Comfortable with data analysis and presenting data
- Highly organized and energetic with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Communicates a clear, vivid, inspiring, and relevant description or picture of project benefits/value to the customer
- Strong business acumen and familiarity with broad range of business processes beyond those impacted projects
- Able to effectively interact with various levels of an organization both technical and non-technical to discuss comprehensive portfolio investments performance
Responsibilities
- Drive the successful management for Group Benefits’ strategic investment portfolio
- Support leadership in leading business investments across multiple product and sales domains
- Define effective portfolio/program management processes for the successful execution and delivery of business objectives and key results
- Proactively identify best practices and support business teams through capability development and maturity
- Drive portfolio executive briefing materials, including weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews, and portfolio review meetings
- Ability to work autonomously and organize your work so the business can achieve high quality, repeatable, consistent results
- Establish and maintain long standing, trusted relationships with stakeholders and business partners
- Balance business needs with technical constraints and offer creative solutions to negotiate tradeoffs as needed
- Lead business and IT executives in business case scope alignment and definition sessions, identify critical success factors, and drive mitigation of significant issues and risks
- Implement and coach others in industry leading practices in governance development, communications planning, stakeholder engagement, portfolio metrics tracking and management
- Effectively remove blockers and mitigate risks maximizing team productivity and ensuring delivery
- Communicate people, process, and technology innovations across business, technology, and various leadership teams
- Rally the cross functional teams throughout the enterprise and hold teams and individuals accountable for timelines and deliverables
- Leverage business knowledge and expertise to drive results
- Freely contributes unique thoughts and opinions based on individual experience and learnings while actively seeking the same exchange from others
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in content creation and presentation (C suite -1 and below)
- Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent
- Prior Product Management experience a plus
- Group Insurance experience