Associate Director, Platform Delivery, Execution and Transformations

National Life Group•Addison, IL

43d•Onsite

About The Position

Come join one of America's fastest-growing insurance companies. Since 1848, National Life Group has aimed to keep our promises, providing families with stability in good times and in bad. Throughout that history, we have provided peace of mind to those families as they plan their futures. Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we offer. We strive to make the world a better place through our grants from our charitable foundation, paid volunteer time for our employees, environmentally sustainable and healthy workplaces, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard. We foster a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and encourage our associates to live our values: Do good. Be good. Make good. Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position. Role Summary Our mission is to revolutionize the way our business manages conducts critical functions via systems, and we need a visionary Leader to spearhead our platform transformations. If you're passionate about technology and have a knack for partnering with business leadership and enjoy working in dynamic environments, we want you on our team! The Associate Director, Platform Transformations, Applications Development partners with other IT resources and the Business Operations teams to optimize technology outcomes. Success for the Technical Leader starts with building and maintaining strong relationships with all other counterparties. A deep understanding of business and IT processes supports proposing and driving changes that deliver value for business partners at National Life Group. This role involves leading a team, collaborating with IT and business operations, and ensuring that the critical L&A systems such as New Business acquisitions, Policy Administrations systems, Investments, Finance etc. This role essentially is to apply thought leadership to execute and work with business to realize more efficient way of conducting business through new more efficient systems. Discover the current states of business processes and systems to frame future states for new business process in new platforms. All about transformational leadership and acting as a change agent while making a difference for our IT & Business. This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Requirements

Experience in leading large-scale change and transformations in Life & Annuities Business
Delivery Management, Product management and Change management experience during Insurance transformations
Exposure to working with Business Process People and IT Engineers, and PMO
15+ Years of experience in leading change in Insurance industry.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Project Management.
Experience with Insurance systems, with exposure to product set up.
Experience in insurance, particularly Life & Annuity.
Strong background in technical delivery management.

Responsibilities

Stakeholder management & collaboration: Work with business stakeholders to ensure solutions satisfy business requirements and are of the highest quality. Utilize strong emotional and social intelligence to build relationships across the enterprise. Communicate effectively, and with an appropriate level of detail, to business and IT resources.
Flexibility: Work with limited direction, usually within a complex environment, contributing to operational and transformational efforts.
Come up logical solutions: Provide for complex business and IT issues, working closely with vendors and internal teams to resolve problems during transformations and when change is implemented.
Knowledge of SDLC & IT Value Chain in Life & Annuity Business
Understand all aspects of value chains in IT example:
UI/UX, Process Flows
How UI/UX interacts with Logical and Physical entities
APIs, Batch
Data Supply chains and integrity
Compliance and security needs
Systems Configuration and Change Management

Benefits

Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family's specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

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