Manager, Enterprise Projects (Remote - Eastern Hours)

Manager, Enterprise Projects

With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility.

Enterprise Projects is a growing team within Arch's Strategy and Innovation group that drives the future state design of strategically important underwriting and claims initiatives in line with Arch's broader strategic imperatives. Our mission is to design modern user experiences to improve ease of doing business, productivity, and responsiveness to accelerate growth. To be successful, we need to help our underwriters and claim adjusters make better informed, faster decisions by designing experiences that incorporate innovative technologies, such as: AI-powered intelligent document processing, data enrichment via third-party sources, and analytics driven prioritization.

As a key member of Arch's Enterprise Projects team, the Manager, Enterprise Projects will play a crucial role in supporting successful delivery of Arch's most strategically important projects. Working under EP leadership, this role will be responsible for the daily representation of Enterprise Projects on these cross-functional initiatives. This includes coordinating with business unit leaders, underwriters, claim adjusters, members of the Strategic Analytics (SA) team, as well as IT, Ops and project management teams.

Job Responsibilities

• Understand business process, document current underwriter experience, and identify opportunities to transform the user experience by leveraging analytics and automation
• Collaborate (internally/externally) to actively engage in development of an analytics driven future state vision for prioritized work areas
• Collaborate with Arch's Operations and IT teams to help translate solution design into functional requirements that inform UI/UX development
• Establish strong relationships with cross-functional team members to influence and drive alignment around future state vision
• Act as a strategic advisor on Large and Medium sized initiatives providing observations and recommendations related to analytics and automation solutions within technology platforms and operations
• Manage stakeholder expectations through regular communication and touchpoints
• Proactively escalate risks/issues to leadership as they arise
• Help establish best practices and repeatable processes applicable across the various business units

Required Skills/Experience

• 5+ years' experience in p/c insurance business process analysis, process improvement, preferably in commercial lines underwriting
• Exceptional teamwork skills are required to play a key role in cross-functional teams; ability to collaborate and build trusting relationships with business partners
• A strong understanding of the p/c insurance business and a passion for the industry
• Track record of identifying opportunities for transforming business processes
• Demonstrable ability to lead discussions and synthesize input from various stakeholders to drive consensus on approach
• Track record of collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver technology solutions
• Strong organization skills task management, time management and project management.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills; ability to convey complex concepts to people across the organization
• Natural curiosity to understand, question as needed, and improve the world around you
• Ability to export and apply learnings from other projects and to build scalable, repeatable business frameworks

Desired Skills/Experience

• Prior commercial lines underwriting experience is strongly preferred
• Prior experience in professional services or management consulting

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Total individual compensation (base salary, short & long-term incentives) offered will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to geographic location, scope & responsibilities of the role, qualifications, talent availability & specialization as well as business needs. The above pay range may be modified in the future.

Arch is committed to helping employees succeed through our comprehensive benefits package that includes multiple medical plans plus dental, vision and prescription drug coverage; a competitive 401k with generous matching; PTO beginning at 20 days per year; up to 12 paid company holidays per year plus 2 paid days of Volunteer Time Offer; basic Life and AD&D Insurance as well as Short and Long-Term Disability; Paid Parental Leave of up to 10 weeks; Student Loan Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement, Backup Child and Elder Care; and more.