The National Insurance Operational Performance team is hiring for its NI Specialty Liaison role. This role offers high impact work and strong visibility to the NI Specialty leadership team. Focused primarily on our underwriting teams process, resources and technologies to enable their interactions with agent/broker partners to win in the market. The NI Specialty Liaison on the NI Operational Performance team is a multi-faceted, high impact role to drive immediate value to one of our most important businesses in National Insurance.

The NI Specialty Liaison is responsible for:

• Driving adoption of pipeline process, technology and expectations across all NIS underwriting teams
  
• Partnering with Salesforce Agile teams to build and deploy the GRS Salesforce platform
  
• Identify and creatively solve training gaps as underwriters interact with their agents and brokers
  
• Partner with NI Analytic teams to drive proactive insights into the business
  
• Design, build and monitor effectiveness of market compensation programs

Job Responsibilities:

• Managers a portfolio of projects to include those considered complex in nature with function-wide and/or SBU-wide impact. Examples of complexity: highly technical, substantial budget, high visibility, long tail, many stakeholders crossing multiple functional groups, outside U.S. arena, etc.
  
• Defines the business case with input from stakeholders. Identifies and gains agreement on project objectives, scope, timing, and resources.
  
• Plans activities/tasks that will deliver the desired results and oversees day-to-day work and monitoring of progress towards goals. Ensures resources are optimally sourced and deployed.
  
• Conducts project meetings and prepares regular reports to communicate the status of projects to stakeholders within and beyond the project team.
  
• Adeptly builds consensus and gains buy-in among stakeholders across the organization.
  
• Escalates and works to resolve issues that serve as roadblocks and/or place project objectives at risk. Identifies and provides visibility into trade-offs between options, while strongly influencing recommended approach.
  
• In addition to project management, may also perform some of the work defined in the project roles and responsibilities.
  
• Performs project close-out steps to include identifying lessons learned/best practices to inform the success of future projects. Applies continuous improvement methodologies throughout the project management lifecycle.
  
• Provides mentoring to less experienced staff.
  

Qualifications:

Expert-level ability in managing all aspects of the project management life cycle for multiple projects at one time to include those complex in nature. Advanced knowledge of project management tools. Strong ability to adapt and address unique challenges in collaborative and creative ways. Project management certification strongly preferred. Displays advanced communication, organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and team building skills as well as advanced presentation, influencing, and relationship management skills. Advanced business operations knowledge to include understanding the function's value chain and market conditions strongly preferred.

Competencies typically acquired through a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Advanced degree preferred. Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience to include project management work.

Benefits:

We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to positive change. In return for your service, its our privilege to offer you benefits and rewards that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://LMI.co/Benefits

Overview:

At Liberty Mutual, we give motivated, accomplished professionals the opportunity to help us redefine what insurance means; to work for a global leader with a deep sense of humanity and a focus on improving and protecting everyday lives. We create an inspired, collaborative environment, where people can take ownership of their work; push breakthrough ideas; and feel confident that their contributions will be valued and their growth championed.

Were dedicated to doing the right thing for our employees, because we know that their fulfillment and success leads us to great places. Life. Happiness. Innovation. Impact. Advancement. Whatever their pursuit, talented people find their path at Liberty Mutual.

Job: Strategy & Planning
Primary Location: United States-Illinois-Chicago
Schedule: Full-time
Salary: $132,000-$170,000
Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time