Strategic Business Design Partner

Job Family

Program and Project management

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Works with functional management, business analysts, operations staff and processing groups to develop strategic roadmaps and drive the execution of process improvement initiatives for the Product & Advice organization. Meets with management teams to understand and evaluate business processes. Drives meetings to track and communicate project status to stakeholders, and discussions on new or potential initiatives.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Evaluate operational results and develop improvement solutions/recommendations for assigned business groups, in partnership with leadership and stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with business stakeholders to identify and prioritize and help drive execution for assigned business groups.
• Evaluate information regarding process results, issues, to develop process improvement solutions.
• Address business problems that require analysis of processes, including systems, procedures, and interfaces.  
• Perform root cause analysis and other analysis techniques to understand and describe business issues to relevant stakeholders.
• Work with management, business groups and technical teams, to generate and evaluate solutions and put forth an execution plan.
• Actively participate and at times facilitate meetings with leadership and stakeholders and ensure clear next steps are documented for attendees.
• At times, dive deeper into initiatives to help organize and drive results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field or equivalent experience
• Two years of experience in any industry developing technical and business solutions.  May substitute some experience for formal process improvement or project management training/experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Organizational and prioritization skills. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and change direction easily.
• Experience in the retirement industry, specifically in retirement planning or IRA's.

Working Conditions

• Office environment.
• Occasional travel to participate in planning, implementations and site visits.

**Please note that the compensation information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to applicable pay transparency and compensation posting laws. It is estimated based on what a succ