Vice President, Business Enablement at Protective
This role is ideal for a high-impact leader with at least 8 years of experience in the financial services sector, specifically within business transformation or
Work type: onsite
Location: Birmingham, AL
Salary: $155,000 – $180,000/yr
Type: Full-time
Summary
This role is ideal for a high-impact leader with at least 8 years of experience in the financial services sector, specifically within business transformation or process engineering. The ideal candidate is a "bridge-builder" who can translate complex business needs into technology solutions. Since this is an on-site VP position in Birmingham, AL, it suits a seasoned professional who thrives in a collaborative, office-based environment and has a proven track record of managing teams and driving large-scale change.
The compensation is competitive, ranging from $155,000 to $180,000 annually. A standout feature of this role is the opportunity to lead a "Center of Excellence" for automation and process improvement. You won't just be maintaining systems; you will be spearheading innovation, working closely with AI teams, and influencing executive-level strategy to modernize the enterprise.
**You might be a good fit if you...**
* Have an extensive background in Lean methodologies, automation, and large-scale project implementation.
* Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and presenting business cases for emerging technologies to C-suite stakeholders.
* Enjoy working in a matrixed environment where you lead through influence rather than just direct authority.
* Are local to or willing to relocate to Birmingham for a full-time, on-site leadership commitment.
Job Description
The work we do has an impact on millions of lives, and you can be a part of it.
We help protect our customers against life’s uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you’ll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.
Protective’s VP Business Enablement leads a team responsible for identifying, developing, and testing solutions to complex, high impact problems or focus areas that are identified through corporate planning processes. The team will lead work cross functionally across business, and technology teams to understand complex business needs, translate those business needs into solutions and proactively identify opportunities for enhancements and automation of existing systems and processes. The VP is a proven change leader with a passion for results-driven transformation and innovation. The team will also serve as a Center of Excellence for process improvement and automation.
## Key Responsibilities
- Identify business opportunities and needs and be a champion of lean, automation, and technology to help modernize and solve business problems.
- Evaluate new concepts and emerging technology trends within the industry and develop them into new innovative solutions for the business.
- Present views and recommendations on the potential impact and how to apply emerging technology trends to stakeholders and management.
- Discover, incubate, and accelerate concepts into business proposals and initiatives in a fast-paced environment
- Ideate, collaborate, and experiment with ideas
- Lead evolution of technology with a view toward continuous improvement of business processes and data integrity by applying appropriate technology to solve business problems and translate it to actionable business requirements.
- Supports large-scale enterprise-wide projects that incorporate a proactive and innovative solution to addressing business challenges and achieving organizational goals and objectives. Integrates how the big picture of the initiatives comes together from definition through implementation on implications across the business.
- Ensure organizational alignment in the design and execution of initiatives.
- Plan and execute effective change management programs to ensure business acceptance and user effectiveness with the solutions delivered and ensure technology investments align with transformation imperatives.
## Key Partnerships
- Collaborate with business leaders and IT leaders across the company to drive solutions that enable Protective to achieve its medium to long-term strategy.
- Work in partnership and leverage the AI and Innovation team to identify new opportunities.
- Work with Executive leaders to gain sponsorship for investment and support of transformative solutions through education and business case development
## Qualifications
- 8+ years of proven experience driving results across large programs within the financial industry
- A track record of progressing new insights, processes, and strategies that add business value, across a matrixed organization
- Experience in developing strategy and delivering business transformation in areas such as process re-design, change management and technology enabled business change.
- Experience leading in a cross functional setting with a proven ability to influence key stakeholders
- Excellent analytical, analysis and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to transform and navigate changing needs and priorities, ambiguity and short deadlines
- Proven ability to communicate effectively, creating presentations, and articulating ideas to stakeholders and management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, organizational and interpersonal skills with an ability to adjust communication based on the audience.
- Prior management experience
Protective’s VP Business Enablement leads a team responsible for identifying, developing, and testing solutions to complex, high impact problems or focus areas that are identified through corporate planning processes. The team will lead work cross functionally across business, and technology teams to understand complex business needs, translate those business needs into solutions and proactively identify opportunities for enhancements and automation of existing systems and processes. The VP is a proven change leader with a passion for results-driven transformation and innovation. The team will also serve as a Center of Excellence for process improvement and automation.
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