Agile Transformation Lead

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Time Type:
Full time Worker Type:
Employee

The purpose of this role is to be a trusted advisor to plan and implement the strategic transformation agenda through thought leadership and external perspectives in order to solve business problems. It also involves leveraging and scaling out the local transformation governance framework to support the broader transformation agenda.

• Location:
  
  Madison, WI
• Work Arrangement: hybrid working expectations
• The starting salary for this role is between $ and $

• Work seamlessly with Strategy and Architecture teams to ensure new pipeline initiatives are aligned with departmental and organizational strategic direction.
• Translate strategic objectives into coherent, prioritized roadmaps that balance regulatory, risk, and value-driven change across EDSR.

• Own and maintain EDSR roadmaps, ensuring alignment with approved strategies, interdependencies, funding horizons, and the broader enterprise change portfolio.
• Ensure roadmaps remain current and actionable as priorities, capacity, and risk profiles evolve.

• Drive the creation and refinement of business cases by ensuring that:
• The problem statement, scope, risks, dependencies, and intended outcomes are clearly defined
• Business readiness, operational impact, and change/adoption considerations are explicitly assessed at a proportionate level
• Provide assurance that business cases are decision-ready and support sound, evidence-based investment decisions.
• Partner with business and change management leaders to ensure initiatives are supported by appropriate adoption, communication, and readiness plans, enabling sustainable change and value realization.

• Own backlog governance and prioritization, providing end-to-end assurance of the EDSR change portfolio, together with the PMO from intake through delivery and closure.
• Establish and operate a portfolio planning cycle to evaluate new demand post-intake and confirm what initiatives should enter the portfolio based on strategic alignment and value

• Promote and enable the effective use of agile and iterative delivery approaches across initiatives.
• Ensure initiatives are appropriately scoped to deliver incremental value, minimum viable outcomes, and early benefits realization.
• Support the definition, implementation, and oversight of the benefits realization framework to track intended and realized value across the EDSR change portfolio, ensuring initiatives deliver measurable strategic and business outcomes.

• Establish early executive-level accountability for initiatives, including clear ownership, sponsorship, and decision rights.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders by:
• Facilitating trade-off discussions and scenario analysis
• Providing portfolio-level insights, options, and strategic recommendations

• Coordinate the submission of business cases, roadmaps, and supporting materials to the Enterprise Technology Office and other relevant governance forums.
• Ensure governance discussions are outcome-focused, decision-led, and aligned to strategic priorities.

• Experience of working collaboratively with business and change professionals to identify solutions to business problems
• Experience of managing relationships with internal business customers at a senior executive level
• Strategic planning experience (knowledge of approaches, techniques, tools and outputs)
• Experience of managing multi-discipline projects
• Broad financial services experience with understanding of insurance processes and technology

The salary range for this role is provided above. This is the national range for location(s) listed. The salary offer will be decided based on the role's complexity, its location, and the candidate's professional background, including their education and experience. Beyond the base salary, regular full-time and part-time employees will also be eligible for QBE's annual discretionary bonus plan based on business and individual performance.

We encourage all candidates to apply, even if their salary expectations fall outside of this range, as we are committed to finding the right fit for our team.

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to:

• Hybrid Working - a mix of working from home and in the office
• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis
• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%
• Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• Tuition Reimbursement for professional certifications, and continuing education
• Employee Network and…