Executive Director, Usla Strategy & Innovation

Position Overview

Executive Director, Strategy & Innovation serves as a trusted advisor and collaboration partner helping US and Latin American (USLA) region and the associated business segments cohesively translate enterprise strategy into actionable objectives through innovative thinking and process-oriented execution. Directly interfacing with USLA by deeply infusing innovation, the candidate will launch, lead and scale strategic business prototypes within the region to create transformational growth for RGA.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate strategic planning within the USLA region and associated business segments,

• Work with US/LA leaders, business development and subject matter experts to translate strategic objectives into actionable initiatives,

• Champion innovation methods and tactics using portfolio innovation and acceleration techniques such as lean startup, business model development, design thinking, rapid experimentation, product-led growth

• Contribute to development and execution of market level pillar strategies and identify synergies across USMM, USIH, Group Re, and LATAM to ensure success of the region

• Help create and manage content to communicate progress towards goals and the current state of strategy translation and execution to various internal stakeholders.

• Implement USLA strategic portfolio and quarterly reporting process to include setting objectives and key result targets, key performance indicators, and scorecard reporting

• Develop and ensure maintenance of the USLA executive dashboard and roadmap to include a regional aggregation of all target metrics, milestones, and progress tracking to monitor business health

• Lead innovation and strategic business initiatives or portfolio of initiatives within US & Latin American Market,

• Provide direction for initiatives with the goal of moving to commercialization/production, or determining and recommending alternate action to stakeholders

• Actively participate in business development activities, idea generation and innovation activities and champion new products or opportunities

• Self-starter who proactively solves problems through research on solutions, industry, marketplace and provides mockups and/or starter deliverables to mature with the teams

• Fosters a positive, collaborative and engaged work environment

Requirements

Required

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or technical field
• 5+ years of experience in an innovation and/or strategy role
• 5+ years of financial services experience, preference for background in insurance-related verticals
• 5+ years of project management experience with medium to large scale projects

Preferred:

• Master's degree in business, finance, or technical field

• 5+ years of supervisory/management experience

• PMP or similar project management certification

• ACS, ALU, FLMI accreditations, advanced life insurance and/or reinsurance industry knowledge

• Experience with multi-national companies

Skills and Abilities

Required

• Expert knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel, and adept at learning and deploying new collaboration tools (e.g., Teams, Trello, Slack, etc.)

• Superior people management skills to effectively influence colleagues in both formal and informal reporting structures

• Advanced critical thinking skills, with an advanced ability to multi-task, prioritize and meet tight deadlines

• Strong project leadership and program management experience

• Advanced use of variety of tools and talent to organize information creatively and professionally

• Ability to seek out and secure access to resources as needed across multiple functional areas

• Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions

• Advanced persuasion and negotiation skills

• Advanced ability to understand and meet clients' needs

• Track record of innovative thought and entrepreneurial endeavor

Company Overview

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (NYSE: RGA) is one of the largest global providers of life reinsurance, with offices around the world. RGA delivers expert solutions in individual life reinsurance, individual living benefits reinsurance, group reinsurance, financial solutions, facultative underwriting, and product development. Our mission is to enhance our clients' prosperity by supporting their financial and risk management capabilities.

Pay is based on a number of factors, including market, a candidate's skills, and experience commensurate with a role, etc. salary range: $143,245- $213,390 + bonus

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