Patra Corporation-posted 4 days ago
Full-time • Director
5,001-10,000 employees

Patra Corporation is the worldwide leader in insurance back-office and account management business process outsourcing. Patra offers a wide range of services designed to lower costs, reduce risk and improve employee productivity through the transfer of account management and business support functions, such as policy checking, certificate issuance, eligibility processing, quality control and account audits, to operation centers in the US, India, and the Philippines. The Senior Director of Implementation is a mission-critical, senior leadership role. You are the owner of our sale-to-delivery ecosystem, responsible for guaranteeing that client engagements are brought to life quickly, impactfully, and to the highest standard of quality. You own the Implementation team's P&L and overall service performance, leading the acceleration for our clients to value realization, and ensuring our implementation methodology is built-to-scale. Your ultimate responsibility is to drive operational transformation and strategic execution across the entire implementation portfolio, maximizing client satisfaction and long-term financial health for the firm.

  • Strategic Talent & Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing, global implementation team (including remote and offshore resources) across project management, technical enablement, and analyst functions. Own the hiring, talent development, and cultural mandate necessary to sustain excellence.
  • Service Transition Command: Ensure seamless and expeditious transfer of services to Operations and Client Account Leads (CALs) by ensuring all contracted services, documentation, and contractual milestones are understood and met, thereby guaranteeing client adoption and enabling timely revenue realization.
  • Strategic Capacity & Financial Modeling: Own the Implementation P&L. Manage and refine a dynamic capacity model to forecast resource demand against sales pipeline information. Drive team utilization and ensure all projects contribute to enterprise objectives.
  • Process Transformation & Scalability: Own the Implementation Playbook. Govern the continuous improvement lifecycle for all project methodologies. Define and execute strategic initiatives to improve the repeatability and scalability of the entire transition process.
  • Quality Governance & Client Satisfaction: Lead the analysis and refinement of client satisfaction (CSAT) metrics. Oversee all quality standards for implementations, ensuring a closed-loop feedback process that actively resolves client friction points.
  • Executive Escalation & Risk Management: Serve as the final escalation authority for all critical project risks, scope disputes, and client satisfaction issues, including personally leading high-stakes client meetings. Maintain executive visibility with CALs and senior leadership.
  • Metrics & Strategic Reporting: Own executive reporting on all key departmental performance indicators to drive decision-making, including, time-to-value, revenue attainment, client satisfaction, and utilization.
  • Sales Partnership & Viability: Partner with the Growth, Client Experience, and Solution Architecture teams to provide technical and capacity expertise for all major pursuits. This includes actively engaging in scoping, estimating, and providing expert content for RFP/RFI responses.
  • Asset Development: Oversee the creation and management of all standardized delivery assets, training modules, and project templates for the team.
  • Cross-Functional Integration: Own the alignment between Implementation and the wider organization. Partner across business units to influence service offerings and ensure the practical needs of all internal customers are met.
  • 15+ years of experience in BPO/BPM, professional services, or consulting environments, with at least 5 years in a Senior Direct/Director or senior management role managing a client-facing project portfolio.
  • Proven P&L and financial management accountability for a project delivery team, including expertise in utilization, budgeting, and project profitability management.
  • Data Command & Strategic Analytics: Mastery of complex performance metrics, with a proven ability to articulate and apply data insights to inform strategic decisions and communicate portfolio performance to executive leaders.
  • Direct experience leading a large, diverse team in a geographically dispersed or global (onshore/offshore) model.
  • Mastery of project governance: Expert in project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, PMO) and executive risk management.
  • Foundational Technical Literacy: Basic understanding of the core technical requirements (e.g., system integration, data requirements, security protocols) necessary for successfully implementing complex BPO/BPM projects.
  • Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to report portfolio status, risks, and strategic initiatives to C-level audiences, and lead high-stakes strategic reviews with C-level client audiences.
  • PMP or other project management certification. Experience with common project management tools and platforms.
  • Direct, hands-on experience in insurance, Insurtech, or business process management.
  • Undergraduate degree (Bachelor's).
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