Assistant Vice President of Business Transformation

IAT Insurance Group has an immediate opening for an AVP of Business Transformation.  This role partners with Business and IT senior leadership to provide overall direction, oversight, and guidance around the strategy, governance, development, implementation, and administration of strategic business processes and technology improvements.  This role will be responsible for the adoption and continuous improvement of core strategic business processes and supporting technology.  This resource will drive cost/ benefit analysis and work closely with IT and Enterprise Architecture to balance the short term needs and desire for quick-wins with the progress necessary to achieve the long-term strategic vision of various insurance business units and functions.

The ideal candidate will have large complex project transformation experience guiding organizations in the use of new process and technology to achieve a business strategy.  Preferred candidate will have significant exposure to underwriting and insurance operations, as well as significant experience with and understanding of technology solutions in the P&C insurance space.  Ideal candidate will also have experience optimizing processes and leveraging digital workflow platforms, process metrics, and automation techniques to drive efficiency and effectiveness in an insurance operation. 

This role will be expected to build, lead, and mature an optimization and ideation “internal consulting” team consisting of transformation managers, business consultants, business architects, and business analysts.  This will include managing and leading existing internal employees and contractors, as well as attracting and hiring new talent as needed.  In addition to building the people side of the team, this role will also be the driving force behind developing new and innovative methodologies, deliverables, and engagement models to advance the business transformation competency.  Significant experience with user training and overall change management best practices and techniques is also preferred.

Ideally, this role will work a hybrid schedule from any of IAT's Office locations. The hybrid schedule reflects our values (thinking and acting like an owner, collaboration, and teamwork) as it requires working from the office with colleagues and other disciplines Monday through Wednesday, with the option of working remotely on Thursday and Friday.  We will consider remote for the right candidate. 

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership with organizational change; cultivating relationships; putting staff in a position to succeed; building effective teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals; driving engagement and creating a climate where staff are motivated to do their best.
• Tactfully influences and manages difficult conversations and decisions by exposing objective and fact-based considerations and recommendations.
• Leads strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing initiatives, and coordinating the organization's evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future process and systems.
• Structures and manages the pace of business transformation.
• Champions multiple projects within the organization and among the senior leadership team.
• Acts as a trusted advisor to business leaders to define scope and design solutions.
• Partners with business leaders to define the organization’s strategic direction and provide day-to-day guidance to execution and support teams.
• Utilizes superior analytic and problem-solving skills to provide valuable context, options, trade-offs and recommendations for solving business problems and making business decisions.
• Understands what decisions are within his/her span of control and what decisions must be escalated to other leaders.
• Identifies and aligns stakeholders; manages stakeholders and associated expectations.
• Accountable to the project sponsor and IT Steering Committee for project status, issue escalation, and project outcomes.
• Provides innovative ideas and thought leadership; but leverages a team to drive them forward and execute according to agreed upon timelines and budgets.
• Works collaboratively across matrixed teams and partners with internal and external business and IT stakeholders to meet business goals.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Must Have:

• Bachelor’s degree plus ten years of related expe