Business Transformation Lead Consultant
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Northbrook, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Jul 19, 2019
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- Category
- Administration / Clerical
- 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 Business Transformation Lead Consultant is responsible for accelerating large scale, enterprise wide transformation at Allstate. This position supports the Transformation Lead and will collaborate closely with officers and senior leaders across the enterprise to drive implementation and progress through all phases of the transformation lifecycle to achieve Allstates near and long-term goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with cross-functional working teams and senior leaders to track progress, risks, issues, budgets and metrics, providing thought leadership to drive solutions
- Build relationships to facilitate coordination and alignment between the Transformation Acceleration Team and areas across the enterprise
- Proactively identify risks, design mitigation strategies and execute to avoid issues, escalating to senior leadership (as needed)
- Contribute to the development of the integrated strategic transformation plan and ensuring prioritization is understood by enterprise leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
- Provide transformation context to ensure partners understand the link between individual initiatives and the overall transformation objectives
- Convert thinking of others to gain acceptance for complex and difficult but necessary ideas to achieve goals and objectives
- Monitor value driven measurements to ensure transformation initiatives realize the desired outcomes and benefits
- Support the management of transformation resource needs and evolve the portfolio as strategic decisions or changes arise, proactively identifying opportunities and/or redundancies across both transformation and key in-flight existing initiatives
- Support the development and implementation of enterprise wide transformation standards, frameworks, and processes
- Use personal influence and encourage the use of agile and product mindset practices and tools to accelerate change
Job Qualifications
- A bachelors degree or equivalent experience
- 5 or more years of related experience
- Leadership skills, especially in leading and motivating multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams through change
- Intermediate critical and holistic problem-solving skills including the looking at the bigger picture, analyzing, asking questions, and resolving complex problems quickly and easily
- Intermediate project and program management skills; Able to deal with ambiguity and change in project scope without impacting the project in a negative way
- Ability to influence others, structuring and presenting documents to effectively communicate with and inspire trust of cross-functional partners and mid-level management, driving alignment and decision making
- Ability to think discriminately see underlying concepts and patterns, forecast complex resource needs and recognize risks and the broader implications of decisions across the enterprise
- Ability to work as part of a team, communicate and foster collaborative relationships at all levels of the organization to maximize the achievement of business outcomes
- Strong facilitation skills; the ability to orchestrate workshops and synthesize points of view from senior leaders in real-time and drive a group toward consensus
- Polished, executive-level communication skills (written and oral)
- Advanced in Microsoft Office suite skills (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Project)
- Ability to successfully lead change efforts and complex projects
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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- https://www.allstate.com/
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