Managing Director, Specialty Business Architecture & Strategic Delivery

What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

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The Specialty Business Architecture & Strategic Delivery will play a critical role in advancing the transformation of Specialty’s business capabilities and technology. This leader will drive the creation and management of a business capability assessment framework, which will ultimately inform strategic technology roadmaps and play a critical role in operational transformation. In doing so this person will ensure that the partnership and collective execution between Specialty Operations and IT is as effective as possible. Serving as a liaison between IT and Specialty leadership, this person is accountable for improving and optimizing process, structure, issue resolution, decision-making frameworks, and other improvement/optimization efforts identified by Specialty and IT leadership.

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as strategic thought leader in support of Specialty Operations, advancing operational transformation.
• Collaborate with Specialty leadership and IT to set the strategic direction of Specialty’s business capabilities supported by technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain business technology capability assessment for the Specialty division, identifying areas of strength and opportunity and seeking constant refinement and improvement.
• Work with leadership to prioritize opportunities according to the division’s objectives and incorporate them into strategic roadmaps.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Product Management to ensure prioritized initiatives align with strategic roadmap and advance meaningful business value.
• Improve end to end process of solution delivery from ideation to implementation, including ideation, scoping, prioritizing, solution architecture, business decisions, planning, ongoing maintenance, and improving MVP deliverables to reduce defects upon first release.
• Partner with IT to identify and implement continuous improvement and optimization of agile practices and product engineering.
• Close coordination and collaboration with Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Product Management, business leaders, Agile office, and PPM.
• Manage Specialty’s Program Management and Investment Delivery function, driving improved delivery processes that create transparency for the leadership team, and ensuring that technology investments are delivering optimal business value.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required, with degree in Communication or Business preferred.
• 15+ years of experience in the insurance industry with significant experience in IT operations including agile and SAFe implementations.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and collaboration skills, ability to present and influence at the executive level.
• Experience leading organization change.
• Ability to translate complex subjects into actionable recommendations.
• Strong desire for continuous improvement and experience leading process improvement efforts.
• People management experience.
• Experience developing roadmaps.
• Strong analytical skills and understanding of technical concepts.
• Strong negotiation and relationship management skills.

The base salary offered for the successful candidate will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, job-relevant experience, training, demonstrated competencies, geographic location, and other factors. The base salary range for the Managing Director position is $200k - $300k/year with a 50% bonus potential and 35% LTI.

US Work Authorization

• US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better

We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What’s in it for you:

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life.
• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.
• Markel offers hybrid working schedules of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

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