Product Owner for Shared Economy
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Apr 25, 2019
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- Category
- Claims, Product Manager
- 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
The Claims Shared Economy team is responsible for the design and delivery and of digital platforms, capabilities and business model innovation that enable claim service model transformation supporting the emerging shared economy insurance service needs. Major functions within the role include strategy, design, delivery and completion of digital capabilities, integrations with external partners, business process and architecture for simple and sustainable claim service experience solutions. Management of Claim Technology Services/Allstate Technology engagement for assured delivery, management of budget, scope, timelines, governance, development and delivery of agile and sustainable technology infrastructure. This product owner role resides within the claim business unit and with a mission to transform the existing claim business model to one that is digital first and effortless for the Shared Economy marketplace. The team is organized around a business product and development structure where products and processes are designed and delivered using agile methodology in close partnership with technology, data science and business experts.
This job is responsible for the design and development of digital technology capabilities and business processes with the Claim Digital Transformation platform. They will design, deliver, and integrate business processes with new and existing technology capabilities. The individual will develop architecture connecting business processes, functional data flow, and Claim system applications. They will optimize the development and re-use of capabilities across platforms while adhering to design principles, budgets, consumer, Agency owner, and employee user experience. The individual works independently, prioritizes the individual's own responsibilities, and manages the individual's own workload. The individual consistently meets band level behaviors, production, quality and/or customer service goals.
Key Responsibilities
Product Ownership / Business Architecture
- Manages the design, build, and maintenance/enhancements of complex digital capabilities supporting Shared Economy business model and customers
- Works with other Product Owners to ensure integration between capabilities within a platform
- Develops and maintains architectural governance and controls over design and implementation
- Partners and collaborates across areas of responsibilities, Allstate Technology Architecture and external vendors/partner to implement initiatives; influence others as needed to support team goals and initiatives
- Aids in informing the digital transformation roadmap development
- Operates at the capability-level, in support of broader platforms
- Develops functional data flow to ensure the efficacy of new capabilities
- Proactively engages with field stakeholder groups to collect insights and feedback to inform program design; accountable for prioritizing improvements and incorporating enhancements into program deliverables within the roadmap
- Owns the development and maintenance of program deliverables (e.g. process flows, presentations, reports, project updates)
- Collects and analyzes data and insights; leverage results to develop recommendations for improvement
- Informs budget and forecast for digital transformation and share economy portfolio
Process Management
- Performs process development, improvement, rollout, and integration activities
- Responsible for optimizing process oversight with process agility
- Defines measures to ensure process compliance/adherence
- Influences business process design
- Designs, builds, and delivers business processes and technical capability solutions based upon design principles
Customer Service
- Makes and maintains a connection with the customer by understanding and meeting their needs; serves the customer with empathy; and follows up to ensure that customer needs have been met
- Manages, researches, and resolves highly complex customer communications, concerns, conflicts or issues
- Reviews customer satisfaction results; recommends, designs, and implements personal and business unit action plans
Job Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in related field preferred
- Ability to interact effectively, and coach others on interacting effectively, with internal or external customers and act with empathy
- Applies advanced knowledge of insurance policy, coverage, and regulation
- Applies advanced knowledge of claim processes, policies, procedures, claim systems, coverage, liability, damage estimating, and/or settlement, and adherence to applicable legal compliance standards
- Applies advanced industry knowledge to discipline practices, including best practices, to support the business unit
- Applies advanced knowledge of analytical procedures to reconcile, manipulate, and recognize patterns of data
- Applies advanced knowledge of problem solving and preparation of complex reports for analysis
- Applies advanced ability to leverage learned technical skills in support of team objectives
- Applies advanced negotiation and/or arbitration skills
- Applies advanced conflict management and problem resolution skills in managing internal and external customer relationships
- Applies advanced problem solving skills to continuously improve business outcomes
- Ability to assist leadership in achieving business unit objectives
- Provides advanced individual decision making within authority limits
- Works within complex assignments requiring specialized knowledge in breadth and/or depth in area of expertise
- Applies advanced skills related to business architecture
- Applies advanced skills related to process design, improvement, and integration
- Applies advanced functional integration skills in order to incorporate new capabilities and processes with existing Claims activities
- Ability to influence business process design and strategic direction
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.
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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