
EMEA Business Solutions Lead
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Create and execute a change management plan to manage growth initiatives and build roadmap between where we are today vs where we need to be.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that growth initiatives and transformation initiatives aligns with broader business goals, including regulatory requirements and external needs where appropriate.
- Provide regular updates to senior management on the progress of the growth and transformation initiatives.
- Deploy program standards for effective delivery meeting Time, Quality, Budget, LOB & Country requirements.
- Encourage and develop a culture of investigation, importation and adoption or creation of appropriate new insights and better ways of working.
- Participate as an active member of the Transformation Excellence team, in developing a set of best practice guidelines and training content.
- Design, develop and implement new workflows, processes and technologies that improve efficiency and increase speed and accuracy of insurance decisions.
- Work closely with the IT team and other internal stakeholders to develop and implement technology solutions that support transformation.
- Partner with the product owners to define core product vision, goals, functionality and requirements.
- Establish a shared vision by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution with the product owners.
- Create and maintain product roadmaps, with the product owners feature backlogs and product documentation.
- Strong capabilities in pro-active management of a program preferably within a global corporate footprint.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and experience of managing within a multi-country matrix environment. Flexible, influential style.
- Strategic thinker, proactive and solutions oriented.
- Process orientated, an organiser with strong planning ability and attention to detail.
- Strong knowledge of digital, machine learning, robotics, chatbots, bpm and other newer automation centric technologies.
- Establish / lead effective change governance to supervise initiatives from business case, resource, planning, and execution through to benefit realization.
- Lead program/project planning, budgeting, resourcing, and other project financials.
- Work with key business partners to build engagement, prioritise and deliver outcomes.
- Track and report progress against plans and drive benefits realisation.
- Manage, mitigate and raise issues, as well as dependencies and risks.
- Successful experience in major automation/digital transformations, with a heavy focus on both top and bottom-line improvement.
- Experience of working with and engaging others to help bring greater consistency of working.
- Demonstrable digital/business process engineering/business analysis experience in consulting in financial services/Insurance.
- Very proficient in the use of MS Excel and PowerPoint.
- Fluent English, knowledge of French, German, Dutch, Spanish preferred.