
Head of P&C Application Services
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Maintain, and evolve future-ready platforms by fostering collaboration with product owners, IT, and stakeholders, ensuring intuitive user experiences, service continuity, and alignment with strategic priorities.
- Unify and empower cross-functional teams to deliver consistent, innovative, and high-performing tools that support underwriting excellence and scalable business growth across all P&C business units in collaboration with IT team and Business teams.
- Drive automation, innovation, and performance through common development processes, integration of emerging technologies, and data-driven governance using dashboards and KPIs.
- Define Maintenance Strategy & Execution
- Develop and implement a comprehensive maintenance strategy to support tool reliability and user satisfaction.
- Define and document maintenance processes, ensuring clarity and consistency across teams.
- Design and manage a communication strategy, including: Email templates and content guidelines and Distribution lists and communication frequency
- Utilize workflow tools to streamline maintenance operations and ensure traceability.
- Ensure continuity of service through proactive planning and risk mitigation.
- Establish and maintain a testing strategy, including:Test Books / Non-Regression Testing (NRT) / Sanity Checks
- Accountable for Maintenance Quality Management
- Accountable for the high quality of service for all the tools within the P&C Business Units
- Own the end-to-end service quality for all P&C tools, ensuring alignment with business needs and operational excellence.
- Define and track Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in collaboration with Business, Product Lead on incidents, response time, user satisfaction….
- Measure and report on service performance, ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Communicate service levels and performance insights to stakeholders through structured reporting on system health, user satisfaction, and improvement initiatives.
- Identify service gaps and lead corrective actions to continuously improve service delivery
- Ensure continuity of service .
- Coordinate Product & User Experience improvement with Product Leads
- Engage with Product Leads on User Improvement and ensure that the right priorities are made for the user satisfaction.
- Coordinate change management and training with Product Leads
- Coordinate change management activities in collaboration with other P&C Operations teams and Product Leads
- Ensure that user documentation is up to date
- Ensure all user documentation is accurate, up to date, and aligned with current business rules and system features in collaboration with Product Leads
- Maintain and evolve documentation formats, including transitioning to Wiki or other collaborative platforms for better accessibility and version control.
- Current scope of Products
- SBS and Cedant Fac: UP
- Reinsurance :RUP
- Syndicate : Xuber,
- MGA: Alpha
- Claims: various tools
- Champion the adoption of AI technologies to enhance product support and user experience:
- Lead the development and maintenance of Copilot for Product Support, including:
- Defining user journeys and interaction flows.
- Creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation.
- Designing and executing test plans to ensure the quality and relevance of AI-generated responses.
- Promote the use of automated testing frameworks to improve product reliability and reduce manual effort:
- Collaborate with QA and development teams to continuously improve testing efficiency and accuracy.
- Team Leadership
- Lead the 1st line maintenance team: Organize, manage, and improve the team's effectiveness and efficiency.
- Team Development: Encourage continuous development in technologies, frameworks, processes, and techniques to foster career growth.
- Team Selection and Organization: Select, organize, and train team members.
- Task Allocation and Quality Assessment: Allocate tasks, assess deliverables, and provide regular feedback.
- Team Spirit: Foster a positive team spirit and contribute to a collaborative work environment.
- Performance Reviews: Conduct annual reviews and manage compensation.
- Career Development: Support and encourage career development within the team.
- Foster collaboration and knowledge
- Ensure Product knowledge between business analysts
- Ensure versatility between business analysts
- Extensive experience on the Maintenance management and software application within an agile environment either in a consulting firm or in Insurance/Reinsurance company / Broker
- Project management and team management experience
- Experience has a Product Owner / Scrum Master is a plus
- Knowledge of underwriting processes and/or tools with an international scope is a plus.
- Ability to manage a team.
- Good understanding of Business and IT processes and willingness to constantly update knowledge.
- Ability to work and effectively in teams
- Analytical and pragmatic approach to problem solving.
- Proactive, open-minded and possessing good team spirit in a cross-cultural environment.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to signal problems early and identify appropriate solutions
- Ability to provide clear and regular updates on progress and raise alerts to the right management level within the organization
- Effective prioritization and deliver to agreed deadlines.
- Resilience to approach challenging issues with a positive outlook.
- Ability to multi-task and work on more than one issue simultaneously.
- Demonstrates good attention to detail