Product Innovation Sr. Consultant (Connected Home)
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Northbrook, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Apr 26, 2019
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- Category
- 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 Product Innovation Sr. Consultant provides support necessary for Line Management leaders with achieving profit and growth targets for a line(s) of business on a line management team. This position will have numerous opportunities to influence other departments both in and out of Product as well as leaders on line strategy to present relevant data and facts to make recommendations on initiatives.
This role in particular will support Allstates connected home strategy and strategic partnership development. The role has accountability for ensuring the execution of the connected home roadmap of tests and partnerships as well as analyzing results and making recommendations to leadership. The candidate will be responsible for identifying potential new partners / tests in the connected home space and cultivating relationships with partners. The candidate will serve as a connected home SME for the department and be responsible for staying on top of developments in the space.
Key Responsibilities
Supports Line Strategies and Plans
- Understand and contribute to the achievement of short and long-term strategies to achieve market share growth and profitability targets on a countrywide basis
- Participate on teams, gather relevant facts and organize work effort in support of strategies to ensure the integration and execution of product, pricing and risk management for countrywide usage
- Independently manage / perform unique work assignments and problem resolution across systems, processes or channels and navigate obstacles to deliver the work product
- Apply advanced level of business knowledge to execute strategies which may include new distribution channel initiatives, best practices and new products and services
- Effectively perform analysis (e.g. competitor, product, market, risk management, financial) to understand the underlying health of the line
- Support innovations in all aspects of the product development lifecycle
- Uses experience, innovation and judgment to make decisions that may be based on partial information
- Utilize a breadth of knowledge to identify and frame issues and implications on operational parameters to get new products/projects implemented
- Develop business recommendations, present and communicate finding to various level of senior leaders
Integration and Execution
- Actively participate in coordinated efforts across the organization to facilitate the implementation of initiatives
- Influences team members to ensure implementation success
- Perform activities to ensure appropriate development, and execution of products
- Measure and communicate results; make recommendations to leaders on redirection opportunities of efforts
- Provide support on countrywide product and or process changes
- Provide foundational analysis or business expertise that provides input into business cases or result evaluations
- Uses subject matter expertise to coach less experienced employees to anticipate and prevent problems
- Conduct on-going and/or post-implementation measures to assure proper execution of process and practices that support the line
Job Qualifications
- Education: Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
- Experience: 3-5 years of experience
- Utilizes experience and judgment to make decisions
- Demonstrate and foster a sense of urgency, strong commitment and accountability for achieving results
- Knowledge about business in general, knowledge of industry and company economics;
- Ability to understand business tactics to support changing business strategies and direction;
- Collaborates to implement decisions and / or initiatives in an integrated manner
- Demonstrated problem solving skills
- Consistently achieves superior results
- Proven ability to effectively network and communicate with different types and levels of staff, both written and verbal
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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Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
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