Sr. Business Transformation Consultant

Job Family

Corporate Development, Strategy and Sustainability

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

Partners with business, technology and project teams to drive Operations transformation initiatives in alignment with strategic objectives.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Research business problems and strategic objectives to develop business case elements, to include business problem, outcomes and benefits.
• Seek out business areas, customers or third parties to uncover factors that may impact business solutions.
• Act as a change agent and guide to build a cohesive network of working groups, comprised of subject matter experts and stakeholders, able to lead and support initiatives.
• Define solutions and translate business needs into system requirements documentation.
• Conduct gap analysis for improvements and report findings.  Contribute to cost benefit analysis to support recommendations.
• Provide solution details to leadership and facilitate work prioritization.
• Develop materials and deliver communication targeted to specific audiences.
• May lead a team of individuals, including hiring and staff development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business related field or equivalent experience.
• Five years of experience related to business process analysis, business analysis, project management, performance benchmarking, metrics, change management, operational transformation or strategic alignment.
• Thorough knowledge of technical/system environments, terminology and infrastructures.
• Communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with business, technology and project teams.
• Writing skills to develop communication materials and report research findings in a compelling way.
• Analytical and research skills.
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to push past face value of obstacles and explore solutions from stakeholder or system perspectives.
• Proficiency in MS Office.

Preferred Qualifications

• Management experience.
• Experience working on large scale projects within Operations or Technology.
• FLMI designation.
• Change Management or Lean certification.

Working Conditions

• Hybrid/remote environment.
• Moderate travel.

Compensation 

**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 successful candidate might be paid in