Head of Business Transformation
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- United States
- Work type
- Hybrid
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Workplace: On-site ( ), Hybrid ( ), Remote ( )
Farmers believes in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and innovation, which thrives when we have the ability to work flexibly in a virtual setting as well as the opportunity to be together in person. Our hybrid work environment combines the best of both worlds with at least three (3) days in office and up to two (2) days virtual for employees who live within fifty (50) miles of a Farmers corporate office. Applicants beyond fifty (50) miles may still be considered.
Job Summary
The Head of Business Transformation uses its enterprise experience to drive superior results in our most critical initiatives. This role centers on value creation within any and all lines of business, departments, and functions as the catalyst to drive business outcomes.
Essential Job Functions
As part of the broader Strategy and Execution Team, this Head of Business Transformation will start by focusing specifically on the transformation of our Agent Experience and maximizing their opportunities for meaningful growth. Understanding the behaviors and tactics of an exclusive agent is critical to ideation of new solutions that can change the way we do business.
The Head of Business Transformation will be responsible to:
- Act as the primary strategic business leader of projects, ensuring fully documented scope, and key milestones.
- Enable full collaboration with all project stakeholders and participants, ensuring successful completion of project responsibilities.
- Work directly with senior organizational leaders to establish Personal Lines business project direction, progress and success. Interact and report out to the project Steering Committee on a scheduled basis.
Critical Functions
- Lead the Agency Experience, sales process economics, agent panels and agency visits across the enterprise projects to drive sustainable profitability through the execution of strategic initiatives. Critical role of ensuring agent experience is appropriately treated as a crucial component of Strategic Initiatives and is represented and considered in our work.
- Understand the agency owner/entrepreneurial mindset; driving difficult conversations, understanding & communicating tradeoffs, has deep knowledge/ experience in all critical areas of Insurance(distribution, product, ops, IT, claims) to ask the right questions and bring forward any inefficiencies/inconsistencies.
- Lead value-stream / product-oriented delivery, ensure backlog aligns to business outcomes. Deliver top AX initiatives with measurable adoption and impact.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders across the enterprise to prioritize, understand strategic trade-offs and deliver an enterprise plan for delivery.
- Introduce strategic leadership and oversight within a collaborative relationship between all pertinent business units, including IT, Distribution, Product, Finance, Actuarial, Underwriting, Service Ops, Claims. Must be able to fully understand and balance business and system needs, chart course for successful modernization, while balancing IT requirement and cost.
Education and Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and/or 15+ years of experience.
- An illustrated history of applying modern KPIs and measures to critical business objectives.
- Must bring experience within a P&C distribution organization.
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Benefits
- Farmers offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience, qualifications and location.
- Bonus Opportunity (based on Company and Individual Performance)
- 401(k)
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition Assistance
- For more information, review “What we offer” on https://www.farmers.com/careers/corporate/#offer
Job Location(s): R_US - United States
Anticipated application deadline: At Farmers, the recruitment process is designed to ensure that we find the best talent to join our team. As part of this process, we typically close open positions within 8 to 21 days after posting. If you are interested in any of our open positions, we encourage you to submit your application promptly.
Farmers will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance or other applicable law. Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1033, Farmers is prohibited from employing any individual who has been convicted of any criminal felony involving dishonesty or a breach of trust without prior written consent from the state Department of Insurance.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Farmers is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in any employer/employee relations based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military and veteran's status, or any other basis protected by applicable discrimination laws.
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