Enterprise Continuous Improvement Manager
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Northbrook, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Apr 14, 2019
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- Category
- Operations, Executive / Management
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
This role is responsible for partnering with senior leaders operating in a CI environment in order to deliver business outcomes and behaviors. The role focuses heavily on developing relationships with the senior leaders and leverages those relationships to promote role modeling of CI practices. Engagement responsibilities include developing competencies and collaborative problem solving within assigned business units to successfully enable the achievement of Level 2 CI Accreditation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Executes on strategic direction for the continuous improvement center of excellence (CoE) and problem solves ways to improve that execution moving forward
- Identifies best approach for executing the CI management framework within assigned business areas and obtains necessary alignment from senior leaders
- Actively partners with site leaders and assigned CI COE Consultants to guide problem identification, prioritization, and solving to advance business outcomes and CI maturity
- Ownership of deployment and maturation of the CI management framework within assigned business units
- Ensures execution and delivery of the management system consistent with CI CoE strategic vision; evaluates the effectiveness within assigned business units and develops recommendations to improve CI maturity
- Responsible for advancing root cause problem solving systems and processes throughout the business through active partnership and collaboration with site leaders and assigned CI COE Consultants
- Leads and develops CI COE Consultants in a manner consistent with the CI CoE EVP; evaluates the effectiveness with which the EVP is delivered, contributing to the development and implementation of solutions when necessary
- Builds, cultivates, and maintains long-term business relationships with current and previously assigned business leaders to deliver on the CI strategy and achieve intended business outcomes
- Leverages business relationships with site leaders to initiate cross-functional problem-solving opportunities
Job Qualifications
Education and Experience
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
- 7 or more years of related experience to include 5 or more years within Continuous Improvement, specifically Deploying and Maturing Enterprise-Wide CI Initiatives (experience within a McKinsey environment preferred)
- Internal Consulting - Develops collaborative consulting relationship that helps achieve business outcomes, client commitments and long-term sustainability
- Confident, with the ability to influence, identify mindset challenges, and communicate persuasively
- Ability to think strategically and execute on long-range plans
- Strong problem solver: Can structure, analyze, synthesize and expertly present findings, identify root causes, and develop pragmatic recommendations. Can develop a solution and solve problems both creatively and independently
- Ability to be productive, flexible and adaptable while working in a fast-paced environment with aggressive timelines
- Verbal and written communication skills as well as the ability to interact effectively and professionally with a wide variety of internal and external clients
- Broad or specific understanding of Allstate businesses, processes and services
- Ability to successfully partnering on large-scale organizational change effort or large complex projects in ambiguous environments
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary but thats just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, youll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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