Head of IT Strategy and Business Management

Established nearly two centuries ago, FM is a leading mutual insurance company whose capital, scientific research capability and engineering expertise are solely dedicated to property risk management and the resilience of its policyholder-owners. These owners, who share the belief that the majority of property loss is preventable, represent many of the world’s largest organizations, including one of every four Fortune 500 companies.

They work with FM to better understand the hazards that can impact their business continuity to make cost-effective risk management decisions, combining property loss prevention with insurance protection.

The Head of IT Strategy and Business Management is a key leadership role responsible for driving strategic planning, Technology Business Management (TBM), due diligence and integration activities for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and divestitures and enterprise IT performance management. Reporting to the Vice President of Technology Strategy & Governance, this leader serves as a trusted advisor to senior technology executives and functional / business leaders, ensuring alignment between technology investments, business priorities, financial objectives, and strategic outcomes.

The role leads a global team with primary operations across the United States and India and is accountable for establishing scalable operating rhythms, governance processes, executive reporting, strategic planning frameworks, and value realization disciplines that enable technology to operate as a business-focused, outcomes-driven organization.

This position requires strong executive presence, business acumen, organizational leadership, and the ability to translate complex information into actionable insights for executive decision-making.

• Lead the annual and multi-year IT strategic planning process, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives and business priorities.
• Develop and maintain technology roadmaps, strategic initiatives, investment plans, and execution frameworks.
• Partner with technology and business executives to identify emerging opportunities, risks, and transformational priorities.
• Facilitate strategic planning workshops, leadership offsites, and executive decision-making forums.
• Establish governance frameworks that drive accountability, prioritization, and delivery against strategic objectives.
• Monitor progress against strategic initiatives and provide recommendations for course correction when necessary.

• Lead technology planning and coordination activities supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and/or strategic partnerships.
• Develop IT integration and separation strategies, plans, governance structures, and executive reporting.
• Coordinate cross-functional technology work streams including infrastructure, security, applications, data, operations, and end-user computing.
• Manage technology due diligence activities, synergy identification, transition service agreement (TSA) planning, and integration execution.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, HR, Innovation, Engineering, Underwriting, and business leaders throughout transaction life cycles.
• Establish integration success metrics and track achievement of transaction objectives.

• Provide greater cost transparency and enable analytics to support strategic decision making, financial planning, budget justification, chargeback/showback, performance analytics, benchmarking and value measurement capabilities.

• Partner with Finance and Technology leadership to establish and maintain processes to aggregate and allocate all IT cost and consumption data against a cost model that reflects IT products or…