AVP, IT Delivery Lead

We are searching for an experienced Technology Delivery Lead to join our team. As Delivery Lead your focus will be to work closely with multiple departments to guarantee the success and efficiency of projects that support our Lower Middle Market Benchmark product. You will provide oversight of Lower Middle Market technology resources following Agile program methodology. Further, you will closely collaborate with leaders and stakeholders from cross-functional teams to ensure activities are coordinated and executed to achieve strategic objectives.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with senior technology and business leadership regarding the ongoing alignment of the projects to business and technology strategy
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders
• Contribute to the planning and tracking of program milestones and deliverables
• Ensure effective communication and collaboration across all program stakeholders including creation and delivery of senior leader updates and presentations
• Coordinate activities to ensure alignment across Enterprise applications
• Identify, track and resolve cross-squad risks, dependencies, conflicts and escalations
• Assist in managing program risks, issues, and dependencies, and contribute to the development of mitigation strategies
• Engage in staffing management from resource identification, assignments and reallocation
• Participate in Sprint reviews, providing transparency into the health, risk and financials for projects, recommending reprioritization as necessary to meet business needs
• Create and maintain reporting cadence for various audiences 
• Ensure compliance with Chubb’s governance standards, internal and external audit requirements and standards, and Agile practices
• Ensure the squad project benefits are defined and managed throughout the project lifecycle, and that the realization is monitored and tracked
• Support financial forecasting and performance tracking 
• Collaborate with other leadership to establish and increase fluency in key methodologies and tools – agile, Jira, Mural and others as needed
• Leverage working knowledge of insurance and the domain to guide the development of innovative and effective solutions

• At least 15+ years of delivery experience as a program or portfolio manager
• MS/BS degree in computer science, software development, or business; a background in business, technology, product development and management can suffice for education
• Portfolio, Program and / or Project management certifications (PRINCE2, MSP, PMP, PgMP, PfMP) preferred
• Agile certifications (CSM, SAFe) preferred

Technical Competencies:

• Portfolio Management, Program Management, Project Management
• Agile Engineering
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• End-to-end digital product management lifecycle experience; preferably in insurance
• Strong knowledge of portfolio management tools including Jira and Clarity

Functional Competencies:

• Strong communication, collaboration and change management skills with an emphasis on transparency
• High level of organization and attention to detail with ability to piece together multiple moving parts
• Deep understanding of insurance 
• Ability to build trust and effectively resolve conflict
• Ability to lead through influence, engage, develop, and empower people effectively; strong self-motivator, with a contagious ability to spread energy to team

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.
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