Product Owner wholesale and Casaulty Insurance.

Product Owner, Product Solutions - Wholesale & Casualty Insurance
Location: Richmond, VA
Duration:12 months
Visa: USC/GC/GCEAD
Position type: W2 contract.

Job Summary:

Operating as a key member of the Product Solutions team and the broader Operations department, this individual will be charged with delivering a comprehensive operations strategy for the products within Wholesale and Specialty Casualty portfolio . This includes, but is not limited to, matching technical and operational solutions to product needs to drive an optimal end-to-end experience, ensuring a seamless experience our partners in delivering our products to the market.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with stakeholders to address the strategic and holistic technology needs of US Wholesale and Specialty's Casualty portfolio, including but not limited to d igital distribution (APIs and Portals), data, forms, pricing, compliance, defect fixes, user experience and efficiency
• Own strategic stakeholder engagement for assigned areas, demonstrating a deep understanding of the business; proactively build relationships and connections across Operations, Underwriting and broader to optimize delivery of solutions
• Build, foster and maintain relationships with the broad stakeholder community, including engagement with underwriting, marketing and operations teams to identify customer needs and business objectives
• Serve as Product Owner for the Casualty delivery team :
  • Adopt and implement Agile best practices, ensuring proper documentation of stories and epics that capture the business needs
  • Ensure proper implementation of Agile processes, including refining backlogs, prioritizing user stories, defining project scope, objectives, deliverables, and defining product requirements
  • Ensure connection of macro level strategies and business needs to micro technical solutions
  • Drive delivery of scalable solutions that meet immediate and strategic business needs aligned to strategic IT roadmaps
• Partner across the Operations department to link technology solutions to workflows and process changes, including UAT and training; help drive technology and process transformation for US Wholesale and Specialty product areas

Qualifications:

• 9+ years of related insurance experience, representing In-depth knowledge of insurance operations; prior underwriting experience preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple and multi-faceted stakeholders
• Solution-oriented, creative thinker.