Job Description

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• The Business Execution Lead represents the voice of the customer, responsible for working with IT, business and distribution to define and prioritize various projects and efforts.
• Ideation- Drive product vision and direction. Identify innovative opportunities, work with stakeholders to evaluate opportunities and determine the ones worthy of business and technology investment. Ability to understand emerging tech trends, see how they impact technical roadmap, and how they drive innovation
• Prioritization and backlog management- Working with business and technology stakeholders, identify and build a prioritization framework to evaluate competing priorities and facilitate prioritization conversations.
• Accountable for delivery and health of work-cell (agile or waterfall) team(s)
• Create an environment that is proactive, agile, economical, collaborative fun and accountable
• Responsible for managing capacity / demand of the business
• Provides information to business partners about product line improvement opportunities and collaborates with them to drive down costs and support capabilities
• Change management- Lead and collaborate on business readiness activities including product testing, end user education, rollout, iteration and support
• Build and monitor key metrics to ensure success is achieved including followup plans to increase adoption or efficiency as needed
• Initiate and implement corrective action as needed – build out of contingency plans
• Ownership of coordinating all efforts associated with their deliverable including but not limited to cost, schedule, quality and scope
• Single person accountable for the overall success and delivery of their effort acts as the project champion
• Provides sign off and review of requirements both functional and non functional
• Participate in sprint planning and review meetings providing guidance to business and IT for any backlog or pending initiatives
• Has business input and sign off on business case, business benefits and CBA
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Basic Qualifications:

• Strong background in underwriting, underwriting rule development and analysis
• Experience in digital transformation and working with business units to move towards a digital footprint.
• General background in partnering with Data Science business teams.
• 5+ years of overall industry experience with at least 2+ years of business/IT leadership, business unit leadership, or other functional leadership experience Self-driven, extremely energetic individual who has the vision of enhancing the new business and underwriting value chain for advisors, clients and operations
• Understanding how to quantify and display business results
• Experience in managing business engagements starting from building strong relationship with the various business leads to balancing a wide variety of priorities
• Proven ability to apply financial insights and draw accurate conclusions from financial and other quantitative information
• Assists in the development and definition of the business partners' strategy
• Strong history of sound decision making
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing and reasoning skills – ability to concisely tell a story clearly conveying the benefits, risks and action steps
• Demonstrated leadership in coordinating initiatives across business and organizational boundaries, and building effective cross-functional teams
• Ability to travel and work under periods of stress.

MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.

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