At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead strategic planning and integration across technology teams to drive impactful outcomes.
- Company: Join Allstate, a leader in innovation and a people-first culture.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a winning team recognised for excellence and community impact.
- Why this job: Shape the future of insurance with cutting-edge technology and a collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in strategic initiatives and experience in tech-driven organisations.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. For more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs.
Your role in the team:
Core Engineering & Platforms (CEP) provides foundational capabilities, applying a disciplined Engineering first mindset, and advancing scalable, reusable Platforms across the ecosystem. This role ensures critical priorities do not operate in silos, acting as the connective tissue, bringing cohesion across CEP by connecting work, signals, and outcomes across a wide set of product domains without introducing additional friction.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead coordinated planning and execution at scale - Lead Planning & Integration across CEP in environments with a high number of distributed product teams, partnering with digital products teams to ensure backlogs are sequenced when needed and consumable across domains.
- Strengthen product partnership and customer signal curation - Partner with Digital Product Managers to support how the voice of the customer is captured, shaped, and reflected in CEP priorities.
- Elevate workforce planning and future readiness - Align workforce planning and capability development by aligning future skill needs and organisational capacity to expected demand.
- Align strategic vendor engagement to enterprise priorities - Support engagement and alignment with key strategic external partners against ATS priorities.
- Shapes a clear consistent strategic narrative that connects directly to enterprise value - Curate clear, consistent storytelling of CEP strategy, progress, and impact.
Essential Skills:
- All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
- A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience leading strategic initiatives within complex technology driven organisations.
- A minimum of 5 years demonstrated experience developing and implementing enterprise technology, digital transformation, business strategy, or operating model roadmaps.
- A minimum of 5 years' experience leading teams of managers and/or individual contributors.
- Experience working directly with technology, product, engineering, architecture, or business leadership teams to prioritise roadmaps, allocate resources, govern portfolios and deliver strategic initiatives.
- Evidence of delivering measurable business outcomes through strategic planning or transformation initiatives.
- Experience leading large scale organisational change or transformation programs.
Desirable Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
- Experience within financial services, insurance, consulting, technology, or other regulated industries.
This job has supervisory duties.
Why join us? Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence, a hub for innovation and engineering excellence.
Principal - Strategic Planning & Integration- Hybrid employer: Allstate
Allstate in Northern Ireland is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that prioritises collaboration and innovation in cloud security. With flexible and hybrid working options, a corporate bonus scheme, and comprehensive private medical insurance, employees are supported in both their professional and personal lives, fostering growth and development within the tech industry.
