Agency and Policyholder Enablement Manager

Job Location Columbia, MO 65202 Pay Philosophy The typical starting salary for this position is determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, acquired skills, experience, education, and certifications/designations. This position may be eligible for annual merit increases and participation in our bonus program. Job Overview Agency and Policyholder Enablement Manager. Responsible for setting the strategy, direction, and governance for Columbia’s agency and policyholder digital enablement capabilities, ensuring external facing platforms effectively support business growth, profitability, retention, and service efficiency. Responsibilities Define and maintain the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Columbia’s external facing digital platforms and their supporting technology infrastructure, including the agent portal, policyholder portal, agency information center, and successor or replacement technologies. Align digital initiatives with company business objectives, including growth, profitability, retention, and service efficiency, ensuring prioritization decisions consider enterprise impact and return on investment. Establish and govern user personas for all agency and policyholder segments, ensuring end‑to‑end journeys are intentionally designed across digital platforms. Ensure end‑to‑end journeys support core transactions and interactions, including quote, bind, print, pay, endorse, cancel, contact, access date, with a consistent, intuitive experience across platforms. Provide strategic oversight for the prioritization of digital enablement capabilities, including epics, features, and enhancements, to continuously improve the user experience. Collaborate with underwriting, distribution/sales, service/operations, and other business units to define enablement needs, surface constraints, and balance competing priorities. Serve as primary business partner to IT Leadership, ensuring enablement solutions are feasible, saleable, secure, and delivered in alignment with company standards and timelines. Establish governance standards for business requirements, acceptance criteria, and release readiness across digital enablement solutions. Provide formal business ownership and approval for enablement features prior to production deployment, ensuring alignment with intended outcomes and user needs. Partner with Underwriting and Sales/Distribution leadership to define and monitor key performance indicators for each digital platform, including adoption, usability, efficiency, and business impact. Use insight from KPIs, user feedback, and operational data to guide continuous improvement decisions across agency and policyholder enablement capabilities. Oversee the successful rollout and adoption of new enablement features, including readiness, communication strategy, and training approach, ensuring changes are effectively adopted by agents, policyholders, and internal teams. Other duties may be required. Required Qualifications 5+ years of experience in digital product management, digital strategy, enablement, or related role. Demonstrated leadership experience overseeing enterprise digital platforms or enablement capabilities, with accountability for outcomes rather than task execution. Strong understanding of digital platforms, user experience principles, and agile delivery models, with the ability to apply these concepts at a strategic and governance level. Demonstrated ability to guide teams in translating business objectives into scalable digital solutions, ensuring alignment with company priorities and user needs. Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and influence skills, including the ability to balance competing priorities across business and technology partners. Education Bachelor’s Degree required. Preferred Qualifications Advanced degree, MBA, MIS and/or relevant certifications preferred, particularly those supporting leadership, strategy, or digital enablement. Experience working in or supporting Property & Casualty insurance carrier, particularly in Commercial Lines distribution, underwriting, service, or claims enablement. Experience leading or supporting implementation of a core insurance platform or major digital transformation initiative, with cross‑functional business impact. Demonstrated experience in designing and leading enterprise level digital or enablement strategies, including governance, prioritization, and performance measurement. Experience leveraging data, analytics, and KPIs to evaluate platform performance, user behavior, and business outcomes. Benefits Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage. 401(k) and company match. Generous paid time off (PTO), paid company holidays, paid maternity/paternity leave, and supplemental sick leave. Family‑like culture. Year‑round wellness initiatives. Company‑sponsored events. Opportunities for professional development with conferences, events, and continued education. Equal Employment Opportunity Columbia Insurance prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Columbia Insurance