Product Manager - ED&A

All locations Amelia, United States;
Hartford, United States;
Princeton, United States;
Wayne, United States;

American Modern Insurance Group, Inc., a Munich Re company, is a widely recognized specialty insurance leader that delivers products and services for residential property - such as manufactured homes and specialty dwellings - and the recreational market, including boats, personal watercraft, classic cars, and more. We provide specialty product solutions that cover what the competition often can't. We write admitted products in all 50 states and have a premium volume of $2.2 billion.

Headquartered in Amelia, Ohio, and with associates located across the United States, we are part of Munich Re's Global Specialty Insurance division. Our employees receive boundless opportunity to grow their careers and make a difference every day - all in a flexible environment that helps them succeed both at work and at home.

Leads business unit responsible for enterprise data and analytics strategy, governance, enablement, best practice education, and (Data & Analytics) portfolio implementation. Develops and implements long range data and analytic strategy in alignment with corporate strategy, goals, and tactics enabling data driven decision making and insight generation.

Collaboration & Leadership:

• Closely collaborate with partners and stakeholders to mature our data driven road map and associated data-driven investments and governance processes or policies.
• Educate and support stakeholders in data literacy and drive efforts to collect, manage, and use both internal and external data to drive efficiencies and better decision-making.
• Creates strategic direction for Enterprise Data and Analytics Team.
• Monitor the industry trends and tool advancements in the market.
• Actively takes steps to recruit and retain a more diverse team and along with promoting inclusion.
• Demonstrated leadership in developing, empowering, attracting, and retaining talent.
• Ensures that each associate has an objective to build expertise and capabilities appropriate for their role, including any specific training requirements to maintain professional designations.
• Direct and manage a team of professional data engineers and analytics consultants to design, develop, and implement future or existing data analytic solutions or prototypes in partnership with our partners such as IT.
• Participate in forecasting, budget, and staff based on volumes and growth projections to meet department service goals and company financial goals.
• Analyze and develop new policies, procedures, and workflows to continuously improve efficiencies, working environments, and system support services.
• Holds regular one-on-one meetings with direct reports to have dialogue that includes coaching and development.
• Research, develop, and implement system improvements that exceed industry leaders to ensure our competitive edge in the marketplace.

Project & Portfolio Management:

• Deliver solutions that meet business requirements while managing cost, timeliness, and quality.
• Manage projects as requested, utilizing a standard project management methodology.
• Development, prioritize, and monitoring defects and enhancements as well as continuing operational support.
• Create actionable deliverables for the core change management plans:
  Sponsor Plan, People Manager Plan, Communications Plan, and Training Plan for new initiatives and projects.
• Lead communication of program results and adoption metrics to measure and communicate key information of our data driven road map and associated data-driven investments and governance processes or policies.
• Develop project deliverables such as charters, business cases, project schedules, etc.
• Effectively present information in group settings.
• Manages the relationship with the project sponsors and all stakeholders.
• Takes responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation, and satisfactory completion of projects and reports to management.
• Safeguards that realistic project plans are maintained. Identifies, assesses, and manages issues and risks.
• Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale, and resource budgets.
• Monitors, analyses, assesses deviation from project plan, and ensures the achievement of project milestones.
• Provides guidance to the project team and takes appropriate action where team performance deviates from agreed tolerances.

• Strong leadership skills…