SVP, Governance Planning & Practices
About The Position
The SVP – Governance, Planning & Delivery Practices is a senior leader in the Transformation & Delivery Office (TDO), responsible for setting the operating model, governance, planning, financial management, and delivery standards that support execution of Commercial Insurance’s strategic portfolio. This role leads governance, portfolio planning, budget oversight, delivery practices, change management, and tooling to ensure programs are managed with consistency, transparency, and accountability. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in large-scale transformation, portfolio governance, financial oversight, and delivery excellence in a complex, matrixed environment.
Requirements
- Deep experience in large-scale transformation
- Portfolio governance experience
- Financial oversight experience
- Delivery excellence experience in a complex, matrixed environment
Responsibilities
- Lead portfolio governance, decision rights, escalation paths, reporting, and accountability. Monitor portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and executive status reporting.
- Define planning standards and lead annual, quarterly, and integrated portfolio planning. Strengthen dependency management, capacity planning, milestone setting, and execution readiness.
- Own TDO budget planning, tracking, forecasting, and reporting. Partner with finance and business leaders to manage spend, variances, and investment decisions.
- Establish enterprise delivery standards and promote best practices across agile, waterfall, and hybrid models. Drive consistency, predictability, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Set standards for program and portfolio tools, templates, and reporting. Standardize roadmap, backlog, milestone, dependency, and portfolio management practices.
- Define the TDO change management approach and embed adoption planning, communications, and readiness into program delivery.
- Advise senior leaders on governance, planning, delivery performance, risks, and investments. Build strong partnerships across business, technology, finance, and operations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
