Role Title: Senior Director Product Management - Data Domain

Department: Business Agility

Team: Office of Operations

Location: London

Type: Permanent

About the Role

As the Senior Director Product Management - Data Domain leader, you will be responsible for delivering the implementation for aligned large scale Enterprise initiative across the value chain, including foundational and core capabilities. Collaborate with Business, Data Office and Technology stakeholders to enable the execution of end-to-end delivery plans across the large-scale enterprise program. Lead the end-to-end programs and manages the progress, risks, and dependencies across other portfolios.

Responsible for translating portfolio-level business objectives into Agile product strategies through a deep understanding of the end-to-end value chain. Responsible for ensuring stakeholder satisfaction and overall progress against transformation imperatives using Agile methodology.

About the Department & Team

Business Agility partners across GRS to ensure that our technology investments result in successful, agile, scalable outputs. Working closely with business segments, Business Agility has accountability to deliver digital capabilities that balance short-term and long-range needs to yield the most impactful outcomes. Business Agility also helps to drive our evolution to a global delivery model with uncompromised local service and cost-effective results.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops and executes on product strategies and roadmaps to support capabilities in partnership with other portfolio leaders.
• Translates voice of customer and work closely with business units to take business strategy and translate into product strategies in order to support overall business objectives.
• Represents the business by communicating the product vision broadly and effectively to key stakeholders and Senior Management.
• Allocates investment across products and ensures sufficient resources.
• Owns the overall product backlog across the portfolio and provides guidance to product owners on the scrum teams that comprise the complete effort.
• Uses the overall backlog to coordinate the work of product teams, through each team’s product owner.
• Functions as the final arbiter at the Agile product level to order work and accepts the final release plan.
• Manages final escalation on trade-offs across the product portfolio Provides customer-oriented feedback on product and feature demos for scrum sub-teams.
• Provides leadership to agile product teams and has direct managerial responsibilities for Product Owners and other Agile development team roles.
• Defines objectives and development plans in alignment with IT and business objectives.
• Manages team to achieve business results.
• Champions Agile development methodology transformation across the company through contribution to Agile education initiatives and communicating agile principles to executive audiences.
• Monitors the application of Agile principles across product teams.

Skills and Experience

• Business expertise and knowledge of Agile development methodologies and IT project management.
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (business, computer science, etc) and experience in business, engineering, technology and or consulting.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Considerable experience managing product management teams.
• Proven business expertise needed to set clear priorities across the product portfolio and drive business value.
• Has in depth knowledge and ability to influence business strategy for Underwriting function for a commercial insurer.
• Possesses strong communication and influence skills within reporting line as well as with IT and business peers.
• Excellent collaboration skills: leading execution across teams, influencing across organizations, respected, experience of working across levels from developers and designers Demonstrates passion for improving customer outcomes and experiences.
• Embraces change and outside of the box ideas-does not feel attachment to the status quo.
• Encourages non-hierarchical culture.

About Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM)

Liberty Specialty Markets is part of Global Risk Solutions and the broader Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, which is a leading global insurer. We offer a breadth of world‑class insurance and reinsurance services to brokers and insureds in all major markets.

Our people are key to our success. That is why “Put People First” is one of the five Liberty values which unite us as a global organisation. We bring this to life for our colleagues through:

• Offering a vibrant and inclusive environment and committing to their career development.
• Promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Our Inclusion Matters framework and employee‑led networks strengthen the diversity of our workforce and our inclusive environment.
• Reinforcing that collaborating together to share our unique perspectives help us make better decisions, deliver innovative solutions and pursue our ambitious goals.
• A supportive culture, which includes promoting a healthy work‑life balance and working flexibly.

For more information, please follow the links below:

https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/working-for-us

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