VP, Delivery Lead

Chubb • Readington Township, NJ

11d • $175,000 - $225,000

About The Position

The VP Delivery Lead is a hands-on leader within the Transformation & Delivery Office (TDO), responsible for shaping, prioritizing, structuring, and delivering key initiatives for Commercial Insurance. Example initiatives include Automated Quote to Issue Capabilities, Agent Facing Quoting Applications and Commercial Product Delivery. This role partners closely with underwriting, business leaders, product teams, and key stakeholders to identify future work, translate strategic objectives into an actionable delivery agenda, and organize work so it can be executed efficiently and effectively. The leader works directly across technology, business analysis, business architecture, governance, and funding partners to ensure initiatives are well defined, appropriately sequenced, and delivered with discipline. The title and career band/level for this position are flexible based on the candidate’s experience.

Requirements

• Hands-on leader within the Transformation & Delivery Office (TDO)
• Responsible for shaping, prioritizing, structuring, and delivering key initiatives for Commercial Insurance
• Partners closely with underwriting, business leaders, product teams, and key stakeholders
• Translates strategic objectives into an actionable delivery agenda
• Organizes work for efficient and effective execution
• Works directly across technology, business analysis, business architecture, governance, and funding partners
• Ensures initiatives are well defined, appropriately sequenced, and delivered with discipline
• Experience with JIRA work packet organization and related work management practices
• Strong discipline around backlog organization, dependency visibility, progress tracking, and execution transparency
• Experience partnering with governance and finance teams
• Experience supporting business case development, roadmap decisions, and investment discussions
• Ability to surface key decisions, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs in a timely and transparent way
• Ability to provide leadership with clear visibility into planned work, progress, issues, and required decisions
• Strong working relationships with underwriting, business, and technology leaders, as well as analysts, architects, governance partners, and product platform leaders
• Clear communication on priorities, plans, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress
• Ability to ensure alignment across stakeholders on importance, delivery, and success measures
• Ability to identify opportunities to improve work prioritization, design, and delivery
• Ability to bring structure and discipline to recurring delivery challenges and create repeatable ways of working
• Ability to use lessons learned from delivery efforts to improve future planning and execution
• Ability to help advance a more efficient, scalable, and business-aligned model for delivering underwriting experience capabilities over time

Nice To Haves

• Title and career band/level are flexible based on the candidate’s experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of key initiatives across multiple platforms and portfolios.
• Operate as a hands-on leader who can step directly into complex initiatives to bring structure, clarity, and forward momentum.
• Own shaping, organizing, and executing readiness of work within the portfolio.
• Help ensure work is delivered in a disciplined, efficient, and business-aligned manner.
• Solve for issues not within the scope of other members of the team.
• Partner closely with underwriting leaders, business stakeholders, and other partners to identify needs, opportunities, pain points, and future priorities.
• Help translate business goals into a clear and actionable body of work.
• Support prioritization decisions by clarifying value, sequencing, dependencies, and delivery implications.
• Ensure the portfolio remains focused on the highest-value work and aligned to business outcomes.
• Break down complex initiatives into logical work packets, delivery increments, and executable plans.
• Structure work in a way that improves clarity, feasibility, and execution efficiency.
• Ensure scope, milestones, dependencies, and sequencing are well understood across teams.
• Help create practical roadmaps that connect strategic objectives to delivery execution.
• Coordinate work across product teams to ensure the target capabilities are supported consistently where product, platform, and workflow changes are required.
• Surface cross-platform dependencies, sequencing needs, and trade-offs early so they can be managed effectively.
• Partner closely with IT, business analysts, business architecture, and other delivery teams to ensure work is well defined and feasible.
• Help ensure requirements, business process needs, system interactions, and delivery approaches are aligned before execution begins.
• Work across organizational boundaries to resolve ambiguity, clarify ownership, and drive coordination.
• Serve as a key connector between business intent and delivery execution.
• Own JIRA work packet organization and related work management practices for the assigned portfolio.
• Ensure work is structured to support visibility, traceability, prioritization, and efficient execution.
• Maintain strong discipline around backlog organization, dependency visibility, progress tracking, and execution transparency.
• Partner with planning and delivery practices teams to ensure consistent use of tools and methods.
• Partner with governance and finance teams to ensure work is aligned to funding processes, investment decisions, and portfolio priorities.
• Support business case development, roadmap decisions, and investment discussions related to the portfolio.
• Surface key decisions, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs in a timely and transparent way.
• Provide leadership with clear visibility into planned work, progress, issues, and required decisions.
• Build strong working relationships with underwriting, business, and technology leaders, as well as analysts, architects, governance partners, and product platform leaders.
• Communicate clearly on priorities, plans, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress.
• Help ensure alignment across stakeholders on importance, delivery, and success measures.
• Identify opportunities to improve work prioritization, design, and delivery.
• Bring structure and discipline to recurring delivery challenges and create repeatable ways of working.
• Use lessons learned from delivery efforts to improve future planning and execution.
• Help advance a more efficient, scalable, and business-aligned model for delivering underwriting experience capabilities over time.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity
• Compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to equal employment opportunity
• Employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions or opportunities of employment, without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, mental and physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, age, and pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law.
• Performance and qualifications are the only basis upon which we hire, assign, promote, compensate, develop and retain employees.
• Prohibition of all unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation against any individual who reports discrimination or harassment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed