Industrial Engineering, Senior Project Manager
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Northbrook, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Aug 26, 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
Industrial Engineering (IE) at Allstate exists to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity across all Allstate brands, with a focus on enhancing the customer experience and driving profitable growth for the company. Aligned as part of Corporate Business Transformation (CBT), IE is connected and deployed to corporate strategic priorities as a catalyst for change. The team functions as an internal consulting practice and center of excellence providing services including org design and staffing models for operational areas, best practices and process standards, and end-to-end system discovery and re-engineering to optimize the current state and reimagine the future. We take pride in providing data driven insights to help our business partners take action and realize tangible benefits.
The IE Senior Project Manager is an expert steward and builder of team methodologies while functioning as an expert PM, may act as or support Liaison activities with Allstates senior leaders, and has responsibility for driving business results from IE engagements through executing each of their roles. They will be responsible for leading and participating in cross functional initiatives with the role of integrating across business areas and being the driving force to activate these business areas and incite transformational change.
Leadership
- Manages indirect reports, including coaching, performance management, project staffing, individual capability development, and goal setting
- Drives results. Pushes through barriers to identify financial and CE benefits and influence the implementation of recommendations to achieve enterprise benefits
- Assists with or owns Liaison responsibilities, proactively networking with leaders to intake and initiate valuable engagements
- Expands perspective of teams to consider system impacts and enables individuals to articulate IE value
- Creates strong relationships with midlevel to senior leaders to gather detailed requirements and ensure projects are feasible, valuable, and will result in practical implementation. Uses relationship capital to resiliently challenge the status quo, gain buy-in, and increase the impact of the team.
- Establishes themselves as a thought leader in any room, articulating points clearly regardless of audience
- Leads the team in leveraging methodologies and emerging technologies to help Allstate transform
Project & Program Management
- Leads high complexity/impact IE projects or portfolios. Leads or participates in workstreams within strategic AOR projects, utilizing IE and other methodologies while leveraging the expertise of cross functional teams
- Provides project coaching as an IE and project management expert. May have formal/informal oversight over several projects and leadership relationships concurrently
- Creates a path forward in ambiguous and complex situations by identifying a plan of action and taking accountability for its execution
- Sets vision for project work and outcomes. Reviews technical analysis, findings, and deliverables. Holds themselves and others accountable to achieve results
Job Qualifications
- Must have demonstrated experience as the driver of significant business results
- Ability to think analytically and creatively to solve business problems
- Ability to manage relationships and project teams effectively
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Professional and organized; good time management and prioritization skills
- Ability to influence others to achieve results
- Bachelors or advanced degree in Industrial Engineering, or related degree and combination of engineering and business experience required
- 5+ years of experience using statistical analysis to evaluate trends and business problems
- 5+ years of experience in the use of industrial engineering and data driven methodologies
- 2+ years of project management experience
- Proficiency with MS Office Suite
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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Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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