Senior Manager, Product Owner – Underwriting

at  Liberty Specialty Markets

GENERAL INFORMATION

City: London
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Creation Date: 19-Apr-2024
Employment Type: Permanent
Employment Type: Full time
Ref #: 1234570861

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Advanced knowledge of Agile development methodologies as typically acquired through a Bachelors` degree in relevant field (business, computer science, etc.)
• Experience in business, engineering, technology and/or consulting.
• Master`s degree preferred.
• High level of proven business expertise needed to set clear priorities for product within the Distribution Domain and understand business value impacts.
• Technical proficiency is required to participate in sprint planning and have an informed, independent voice.
• Good influencing skills in order to be seen as the decision maker when interfacing with business, and willingness to dissent with both teams and business.
• Proven experience with Agile practices and expectations.
• Comfortable with making decisions with some level of uncertainty.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Responsible for Portfolio-specific business objectives within the Underwriting Domain for a set of global Agile Products that span across core capabilities such as Risk Assessment and Coverage, Risk Rating and Pricing, Risk Proposal and Issuance and Product Enablement.
• Responsible for articulating and translating the overall Underwriting business vision into digital strategy and tactics for specific agile products within their respective Portfolio.
• Responsible for overseeing Agile product teams and ensuring they are appropriately resourced, focused on the key priorities, and aligned on comprehensive roadmaps to achieve portfolio objectives.
• Manages a team of Product Managers and helps oversee their respective Agile teams and stakeholders to align priorities, remove roadblocks and secure resources.
• Accountable for outcomes and key results (OKRs) tied directly to Portfolio strategic objectives.
• Responsible for ensuring stakeholder satisfaction and overall progress against objectives using agile methodology.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Sets ambitious and clear digital portfolio strategy and oversees the Product Managers who translate this into strategic roadmaps for their respective Underwriting Agile Products.
• Responsible for business results of the related set of customer journeys or agile Products as measured by relevant OKRs.
• Deeply understands the businesses that comprise GRS (Global Risk Solutions), their go-to-market strategies, their common opportunities to leverage scale, and their unique differences that are required to win in local markets.
• Responsible for communicating the Portfolio vision effectively to key stakeholders and team members.
• Works closely with IT and other Business Unit counterparts to ensure resource alignment in support of Portfolio vision and roadmaps.
• Partnering with Design Team ensures customer-driven design is prioritized, considering user pain points from usability test results and market industry knowledge to deliver a well-positioned product.
• Owns alignment of development and business resources on goals and priorities while working with stakeholders and team to remove roadblocks to execution.
• Directly manages a team of Product Managers who are responsible for all Agile Products.
• Participates to provide feedback, support, coaching, in sprint-and release plans together with Product Managers and Technology counterparts.
• Manages delivery of scope, partners with the Leadership Team and Business Sponsors to align on key functional strategic outcomes, Portfolio and initiative performance and funding / resource demand and allocation.
• Works with Product Manager to ensure Epics and Features are clear and resolves open issues/questions quickly and efficiently.
• Acts as the `voice of the customer for the larger Portfolio. Leads the analysis of feasibility, cost ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential programs within their respective Portfolio.
• Approves final Epics and approves completed user features or series of features.
• This is a global role with both customers and employees in the US, UK and Ireland