Operations Product Delivery Manager
| Company | Guardian Life |
|---|---|
| Location | Holmdel, NJ, USA, Pittsfield, MA, USA, New York, NY, USA, Bethlehem, PA, USA |
| Salary | $107920 – $177295 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, MBA |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 10+ years of work experience in Life and Disability Insurance or Financial Services, including 10+ years working on Digital and/or Transformation initiatives
- Experience with implementation methods – portfolio/project management, agile, waterfall, etc.
- Excellent analytical, process-oriented, problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize findings
- Ability to understand the big picture and break it down into implemental components
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, and influencing, and negotiating skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of working collaboratively across departments and with external partners
- Strong general management mentality and experience
- Demonstrated ability to drive transformational initiatives
- Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio)
- Superior verbal and written communication skills for multiple audiences including peers, management, and senior executives
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required; MBA preferred
Responsibilities
- Develops the Product Vision for Life & Disability. It reflects customer and stakeholder needs, as well as the Features proposed to meet those needs. Contributes to and influences the value stream vision.
- Own the product roadmap and shepherd epics through the portfolio system
- Translate Target Letter into Product Vision, partnering with the Value Stream Owner
- Strategically develop, meticulously define, and accurately size the epic by authoring a comprehensive Lean Business Case.
- Lead initiatives with shared areas to ensure the solution is complete: people, process and technology.
- Lead the grooming of features and capabilities and help prioritize these backlog items in their respective program and solution backlogs
- Coalesce with technology to size features and ensure solution meets product needs
- Drive and lead product owners to decompose features into consumable stories, providing guidance on acceptance criteria
- Drive and execute on major strategic projects through uncertainty and across silos, removing barriers using a data driven approach for decisions
- Defines and measures product specific KPIs and OKRs with a key focus on the external and internal consumer and value delivered by the product.
- Drives transformational change beyond traditional change management techniques (internal & external)
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.