Hybrid - Senior Manager, Operations Servicing Strategy

West Creek 8 (12080), United States of America, Richmond, Virginia

Hybrid - Senior Manager, Operations Servicing Strategy

As a Senior Manager, Operations Servicing Strategy, you will be part of a smart, talented team responsible for transforming the customer and agent servicing experiences. You will regularly integrate and influence multiple groups and be seen as a strong consultant by business partners in developing strategic capabilities and executing sustainable customer and agent experiences. You will educate and gain buy-in from key stakeholders to ensure the technology and processes deliver breakthrough business results and radically transform customer service.  

 

On any given day you will be:  

 

Leading Strategic Direction 

• Partnering closely with Line of Business leaders to ensure Operations is represented in the ideation, design and execution of their objectives through (1) Intent delivery and operational readiness (2) servicing strategy and (3) influencing their product roadmap through the delivery of insights and listening 

• Designs the strategic programs and initiatives partnering with project and product teams to integrate the customer and agent design to develop processes that track progress, identify and address issues 

• Leading high impact transformation initiatives and change management contributing to the overall outcomes, definition, scoping, design, and delivery 

 

Influencing 

• Creating over-arching roadmaps, in partnership with tech, product and intent teams with a focus on human centered design  

• Ensuring the product design is built for agents and customers 

• Creating and delivering presentations to senior management. Guiding and influencing senior management discussions and decisions 

 

Leading Horizontally 

• Creating, establishing, and managing communications across teams to ensure optimal engagement of associates and leaders 

• Consulting with business partners to understand complex problems and focus on bringing issues to resolution, horizontal influence and leadership in a matrixed environment. Escalating road-blocks as necessary to meet timelines. clarifying and defining transformation requirements / scope for cross-functional problems 

• Conducting independent research and analysis to solve ambiguous client problems. Working with transformation teams to develop recommendations to clients (e.g., senior management and/or executives) enabling them to make key business decisions 

 

Providing Operational Excellence 

• Responsibility for day-to-day operational aspects of the experience; participating in developing products, benefits definition, management of changes in the operational environment, and assigning and managing team accountabilities on an ongoing basis  

• Distilling big picture intent into tactical requirements and implementation plans and executing process efficiency  

• Intimately understanding the heart of specific operations and represent the voice of that operation to multiple product teams and client stakeholder groups 

 

What skills you need to bring to the table:  

 

Leadership- Influencing, challenging and enabling associates and leaders to significantly evolve and lead through change. Drive complex projects and programs by providing strategic direction and project management 

 

Technical and Strategic- While you may not be a hard-core coder, you should have a solid understanding of the business trade-offs and how to get the most out of our technology. Further, you will be diving into problems with the Business Analysts, Ops leaders and Tech teams and they will think of you as an “honorary member of the guild” because you can speak their language  

 

Curiosity- You ask why, you explore, and you’re not afraid to come to the table with a totally new idea. Solving complex problems is what drives you and you like taking on new ones  

 

Do-er- you have a bias towards action, try things and sometimes fail. You work in scaled agile frameworks and have iterative delivery with a focus on results  

 

Communicator- You can communicate and partner with your team and key stakeholders across all levels of the company to manage, inform and influence outcomes. They know your priorities and why you are doing what you are doing 

 

Analytical- You're Not scared of numbers; instead you believe they help illuminate the truth  

 

Customer-Centric- You lead with human centered design as the basis for decision making and influencing outcomes  

 

Location: This role is hybrid, where you will be expected to spend about half of your working time in the office and half working virtu