UK Digital and Product Management Leader

Company:

Marsh

Description:

UK Digital and Product Management Leader.

We are seeking a talented individual to lead our UK Digital and Product Management teams at Marsh. This role will be based in London, although other locations in the UK will be considered. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

• This is an exciting opportunity to help scope and drive innovation for the future of Marsh’s digitisation across the UK.
• The leadership of the UK’s Digital initiatives and Product Management teams within Marsh’s Business & Client Service organisation is a key role enabling delivery of the UK business strategy.
• The UK Product team supports the critical placement & policy management and fiduciary applications across all business areas in the UK. The team works with the business to set the strategic direction and technology strategy as well as providing oversight of key applications operations, incident management, and technology team liaison.
• This role will also provide thought leadership regarding digitisation of the UK business working with segment Digital Leads to drive new product and process innovation, AI adoption and end to end digitisation of operations across the business. You will drive delivery of the UK Digital Strategy

We will count on you to:

• Understand market factors, strategic opportunities, and executive priorities informing a digital product strategy and vision for digital products and services.
• Drive execution of UK Digital strategy set by the UK Executive and Board with the Digital leads in UK divisions
• Oversee UK digital products and services end-to-end including conception, launch, execution and scale in coordination with business divisions, technology and your delivery partners
• Lead collaboration between stakeholders, sponsors, and leadership both for status as well as to evangelize digital product benefits.
• Build and maintain exceptionally strong relationships with delivery partners including business, IT, operations, support, vendors, and more.
• Lead product discovery exercises focused on crystallizing the end-user needs and curating demand in your digital product domain.
• Manage the conversion of high-level business requirements and use cases into detailed functional specifications and project plans, including multi-year projects.
• Negotiate resource requirements with responsible management when faced with conflicts in priorities.

What You Need To Have:

• Experience of Digital Strategy conception and delivery whether in insurance or another industry
• Curiosity and thirst for knowledge in terms of new technologies and their application to business needs
• Product Management experience
• Strong people management experience
• Strong communication, relationship building, collaboration and influencing skills.
• Experience in developing and driving alignment around a vision, partnering in a highly matrixed environment, setting goals, initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance
• Creative problem-solving skills, with the ability to flex thinking between high level strategy and the details that matter
• Excellent analytical skills with attention to detail; excellent oral and written communication skills; self-organized and process driven

What makes you stand out?

• Proven relationship management and communication skills
• Insurance market experience, knowledge and understanding
• Knowledge of Acturis, Eurotrade 2, Brokasure 64 or Whitespace or other broking platforms
• Experience delivering digital solutions / AI in the insurance sector

Why Join Our Team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is the world’s top insurance broker and risk advisor. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@mmc.com.Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.