The Travelers Companies, Inc.
AVP, Delivery Lead - Corporate Functions
Posted on Jun 3 New York, NY 2 views
Who Are We?
Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.
Compensation Overview
The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.
Salary Range
$149,600.00 - $246,800.00
Target Openings
1
What Is the Opportunity?
Travelers is seeking an AVP, Corporate Technology to oversee and lead key priorities for the Corporate Functions Value Stream, which provides technical support and strategy across the Human Resources, Learning, Legal, Audit and Corporate Services departments. In this position, you will leverage your expertise to lead and influence complex initiatives and partner with multiple stakeholders across lines of business to deliver a portfolio of solutions and capabilities with responsiveness/speed to market, efficiency, predictability and quality. You will optimize the flow of work and help the Value Stream creatively solve problems to accomplish outcomes by bringing visibility and championing continuous improvement. This role may manage others.
What Will You Do?
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
What is a Must Have?
What Is in It for You?
What Is in It for You?
Employment Practices
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.
In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.
Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit .
Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.
Compensation Overview
The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.
Salary Range
$149,600.00 - $246,800.00
Target Openings
1
What Is the Opportunity?
Travelers is seeking an AVP, Corporate Technology to oversee and lead key priorities for the Corporate Functions Value Stream, which provides technical support and strategy across the Human Resources, Learning, Legal, Audit and Corporate Services departments. In this position, you will leverage your expertise to lead and influence complex initiatives and partner with multiple stakeholders across lines of business to deliver a portfolio of solutions and capabilities with responsiveness/speed to market, efficiency, predictability and quality. You will optimize the flow of work and help the Value Stream creatively solve problems to accomplish outcomes by bringing visibility and championing continuous improvement. This role may manage others.
What Will You Do?
- Lead and manage multiple priorities simultaneously, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategic priorities.
- Drive the implementation of vendor solutions, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and processes.
- Act as a strategic partner to various business units, understanding their needs and delivering tailored solutions that drive growth and efficiency.
- Optimize solutions across multiple teams by reducing dependencies and hand-offs
- Collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, including senior executives, to drive project success and achieve desired outcomes.
- Monitor performance, identify risks and issues, and implement corrective actions
- Oversee program increment planning events
- Build feedback loops through cross-team reviews and engage all key stakeholders, promoting faster learning cycles
- Drive relentless improvement through multi-team retrospectives, metrics, assessment analysis, and other means
- Create transparency into the progress of cross-team work through visible boards, operational metrics, forums, dashboards, etc.
- Coordinate team building and cross-team communication.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Knowledge and experience with common SaaS vendors within these areas is preferred.
- Seven years of experience in an agile/execution leadership role delivering technology solutions on a demanding schedule including delivery of several epics, releases and versions and application of a wide variety of patterns and techniques (i.e., multi-team planning techniques, facilitating retrospectives, dependency management, etc.) preferred.
- Strong technical knowledge and a deep strategic mindset preferred.
- Proven analytical skills and experience making decisions based on hard and soft data preferred.
What is a Must Have?
- 7 years of relevant technology experience required.
- 5 years people management or team leadership experience required.
- 5 years of Program Management in an Agile environment or related experience required
What Is in It for You?
- Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
- Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
- Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
- Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Life Balance program provides access to professional counseling services, life coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through Life Balance, you’re eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist.
- Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.
What Is in It for You?
- Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
- Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
- Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
- Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
- Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.
Employment Practices
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.
In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.
Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit .
