The work we do has an impact on millions of lives, and you can be a part of it.
We help protect our customers against life’s uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you’ll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.
Protective’s VP Business Enablement leads a team responsible for identifying, developing, and testing solutions to complex, high impact problems or focus areas that are identified through corporate planning processes. The team will lead work cross functionally across business, and technology teams to understand complex business needs, translate those business needs into solutions and proactively identify opportunities for enhancements and automation of existing systems and processes. The VP is a proven change leader with a passion for results-driven transformation and innovation. The team will also serve as a Center of Excellence for process improvement and automation.
Key Responsibilities
Identify business opportunities and needs and be a champion of lean, automation, and technology to help modernize and solve business problems.
Evaluate new concepts and emerging technology trends within the industry and develop them into new innovative solutions for the business.
Present views and recommendations on the potential impact and how to apply emerging technology trends to stakeholders and management.
Discover, incubate, and accelerate concepts into business proposals and initiatives in a fast-paced environment
Ideate, collaborate, and experiment with ideas
Lead evolution of technology with a view toward continuous improvement of business processes and data integrity by applying appropriate technology to solve business problems and translate it to actionable business requirements.
Supports large-scale enterprise-wide projects that incorporate a proactive and innovative solution to addressing business challenges and achieving organizational goals and objectives. Integrates how the big picture of the initiatives comes together from definition through implementation on implications across the business.
Ensure organizational alignment in the design and execution of initiatives.
Plan and execute effective change management programs to ensure business acceptance and user effectiveness with the solutions delivered and ensure technology investments align with transformation imperatives.
Key Partnerships
Collaborate with business leaders and IT leaders across the company to drive solutions that enable Protective to achieve its medium to long-term strategy.
Work in partnership and leverage the AI and Innovation team to identify new opportunities.
Work with Executive leaders to gain sponsorship for investment and support of transformative solutions through education and business case development
Qualifications
8+ years of proven experience driving results across large programs within the financial industry
A track record of progressing new insights, processes, and strategies that add business value, across a matrixed organization
Experience in developing strategy and delivering business transformation in areas such as process re-design, change management and technology enabled business change.
Experience leading in a cross functional setting with a proven ability to influence key stakeholders
Excellent analytical, analysis and problem-solving skills
Demonstrated ability to transform and navigate changing needs and priorities, ambiguity and short deadlines
Proven ability to communicate effectively, creating presentations, and articulating ideas to stakeholders and management.
Excellent verbal and written communication, organizational and interpersonal skills with an ability to adjust communication based on the audience.
Prior management experience
Employee Benefits:
We aim to protect the wellbeing of our employees and their families with a broad benefits offering. In addition to offering comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance, we support emotional wellbeing through mental health benefits and an employee assistance program. Work/life balance is important and Protective offers a variety of paid time away benefits (e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, and a cultural observance day). The financial health of our employees is just as important as physical and emotional health. Some of the financial wellbeing benefits include contributions to healthcare accounts, a pension plan, and a 401(k) plan with Company matching. All employees are encouraged to protect their overall wellbeing by engaging in ProHealth Rewards, Protective’s platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards.
Eligibility for certain benefits may vary by position in accordance with the terms of the Company’s benefit plans.
Accommodations for Applicants with a Disability:
If you require an accommodation to complete the application and recruitment process due to a disability, please email [email protected]. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application and recruitment process.
Please note that the above email is solely for individuals with disabilities requesting an accommodation. General employment questions should not be sent through this process.
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