VP, Enabling Capabilities

You desire impactful work.
 

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

Brief Overview

Leads the creation and execution of a multi-year underwriting capabilities roadmap to enable the strategic expansion of RGA’s underwriting services. Plans and deploys software, data and analytics, and AI capabilities to meet the needs of clients and build differentiated solutions. Collaborates with underwriting leadership to analyze needs and chart a course forward with anticipation of capabilities required to advance the business roadmap. Partners with internal, cross-functional teams and external providers to assemble next-generation solutions to gain competitive advantage. 

What will you do

• Directs the creation of an enabling, multi-year capability roadmap and functional plans in collaboration with key underwriting leaders and global partners that supports aggressive, scalable business growth.
• Accountable for executing the roadmap with Global Data and Analytics resources and technical teams across RGA creating alignment between the technical, AI, and business roadmaps to ensure business expansion goals are met.
• Defines a strategy for how to compile a robust and scalable solution set from internal, existing capabilities, new internal capabilities, and external, contracted vendor solutions.
• Lead and act as the subject matter expert within underwriting advancing our data and analytics capabilities.
• Foster and drive a strong data-driven culture.
• Utilizes influence to shift the organization from a siloed, functionally oriented approach to one that is integrated, ultimately creating a cohesive ecosystem of underwriting solutions for our clients.
• Interfaces with global partners to vet roadmaps and evaluate capabilities that can be extended to other markets and/or developed in conjunction with global partners for widespread use.
• Leads Business Analyst and Product (Capability) Owner team members toward the achievement of the collective business goals fostering skill development coupled with creative problem solving and critical thinking.
• Leads the team and cross-functional stakeholders to execute the initiatives and monitor performance adjusting as needed to optimize results.
• Develops and manages the enabling capability budget and ensures it is scaled according to the projected revenue and long-term value that the organization will derive.
• Creates business cases as needed in support of the evolving capabilities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, business, or related field of study. 

• 15+ years’ experience leading technology and AI solution evaluation, development, implementation, and capability scaling within the financial services and/or life insurance industries

• Significant experience leading the successful evaluation, acquisition, and integration of complex vendor solutions across a matrixed, cross-functional organizational structure

• Experience delivering results aligned with strategic goals, while effectively managing performance, activities, and capabilities within budget.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Required:

• Demonstrated expertise in utilizing and applying data, software, and AI to meet business goals
• Expert working knowledge of agile methodologies
• Demonstrated expertise in driving analytic initiatives forward from inception through implementation
• Expert ability to develop data and predictive model governance
• Results driven experience managing teams and roadmaps of enabling capabilities related to technical and AI solutions within a global organization
• Ability to think strategically, anticipate future consequences and trends and incorporate them into the capabilities plan with an eye on long-term impact and results
• Experience managing a multi-million-dollar budget with the ability to create compelling business cases and plans
• Customer focused, both internal and external, with the ability to develop and execute upon a roadmap of capabilities designed to power business expansion
• Ability to influence others through knowledge, experience, and vision of future needs
• Unwavering leadership skills with the ability to create coll