Agile Product Owner - U3000 Intake & Quote

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Represent line underwriters and key business partners to optimize Contour Quote and transform the future underwriting toolset
• Build relationships with underwriters and presale partners to identify efficiency opportunities throughout the presale and renewal process
• Participate in discussions with UW enablement, IT and Pricing partners at various levels within the organization to articulate business needs
• Drive for short-term solutions consistent with long term vision as established by the operational strategy team
• Decompose Jira features and detailed user stories in support of I&Q program
• Leverage agile best practices to document build requirements and define success criteria
• Partner with UWIT to deconstruct larger capabilities into incremental building blocks and write features and user stories
• Maximize value delivery by prioritizing features into incremental steps to improve our tools and business processes
• Document detailed acceptance criteria to enable multiple teams to develop test scenarios and validate successful completion of each business capability
• Establish project plan to achieve delivery of features using an Agile delivery framework
• Assess impact of proposed changes on process and organization
• Recommend process changes to accommodate proposed new capabilities or solutions
• Coordinate with peers in UW training and communications to build change management / communication plans related to proposed changes

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in business or related field or equivalent related business experience
• Agile certification required (i.e. Product owner, scrum master, SAFE, etc.)
• Proven track record of delivering high quality process transformation across presale and underwriting applications
• 3+ years of experience building or testing new capabilities across Contour Intake and Quote
• Strong understanding of medical quoting workflow for new business and renewals
• Proven ability to foster collaboration across multiple stakeholders and business teams
• Demonstrated ability to define business and technical requirements (user stories) and plan/prioritize work for at least one agile scrum team
• Ability to independently innovate processes and creatively solve business problems
• Strong verbal/written communication, presentation, and organizational skills, including to the ability effectively communicate and interact with management across the organization
• Pega knowledge and experience is strongly preferred

Nice to Have

• Pega knowledge and experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in business or related field or equivalent related business experience