Title: Vice President, Strategy & Portfolio Management Company: Everest Global Services, Inc. Job Category: Technology Job Description: About Everest: It’s an exciting time for Everest Group, Ltd. (“Everest”)! As we continue on our journey, we see significant opportunity ahead of us to expand our reach, build diversity, and enhance our capabilities in critical markets. Everest is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in the Europe, Bermuda, Canada, Singapore, US, and other territories. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. But the most critical asset in this organization is our people. Everest is a growth company with $14 Billion of Gross Written Premium offering Property, Casualty and specialty products among others, through its various operating subsidiaries located in key markets around the world. Everest has been a global leader in reinsurance with a broad footprint, deep client relationships, underwriting excellence, responsive service and customized solutions. Our insurance arm draws upon impressive global resources and financial strength to tailor each policy to meet the individual needs of our customers. Our financial strength is evident in Financial Agency Ratings of: A A. M. Best, A S&P Global and A1 Moody’s Investor Service. We are a market leader for our broad diversified income streams, strong underlying underwriting performance with reduced volatility and strong cash flow. We take pride in being known in the industry as nimble, entrepreneurial and responsive. About the role: Vice President, Strategy & Portfolio Management Everest Information Technology is currently seeking a Vice President for IT Strategy & Portfolio Management leader to join our Corporate Applications and Services organization. The is a key cross-functional management role that is focused on pivotal IT Strategy, Roadmap, Governance, Planning, Budgeting and execution of investment portfolio through demand management, resource management and financial management. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Corporate Applications and Services, who reports to the Everest Group’s Global CIO, this newly created role will play a critical part in leading IT’s transformation to a strong business-oriented function with – a clear strategic vision, recognized delivery excellence, sound portfolio management discipline with tight alignment to business’ strategic and operational goals. This position focuses on ensuring that the IT organization is tightly aligned with critical business and technology imperatives. A key success responsibility will be driving operational focus demonstrating that IT is progressing its strategic roadmap through governance, planning, organizational processes, controls, and performance management. Everest is increasing its investment in technology and, as a change agent, this role is an opportunity to deliver business value and mature core IT portfolio management capabilities thereby enhancing IT’s delivery confidence, capacity, and certainty. Key outcomes would include strengthening business engagement alignment, improving delivery predictability and agility in partnership with Delivery leaders. This position will be based in our Warren, NJ Corporate US Headquarters. Why Join Us Everest is a dynamic global reinsurance and P&C insurance organization, ranked within the top ten P&C insurers in the world. Highly diversified, Everest delivers innovative solutions to clients helping them achieve their goals and manage their risks while providing a stable portfolio for our shareholders. We can attribute much of our success to our disciplined environment and financial stability, combined with an entrepreneurial spirit infused with flexibility and creativity. Everest offers a fast-paced, collaborative work environment in a culture that empowers, challenges, and stimulates employees to thrive and achieve their potential with ample opportunity for growth. Who You Are You are a recognized thought leader with a strong blend of vision and strategic leadership, coupled with excellent business and technology acumen. You are a professional who: Has demonstrated track record of driving organizational and operational transformation. Can shape and progress enterprise and IT strategy and are well versed in a broad array of technology capabilities, with ability to help IT leaders envision how they can improve IT performance Is well versed in core operational disciplines (e.g. project management, financial management, resource planning, etc.) foundational to running an effective technology operation. Understands and evolves technology operating model inclusive of contemporary and traditional technology delivery models, sourcing, and tooling. You understand leadership and strategy required to modernize delivery methods, include Agile. You can envision success and take ownership of maturing our delivery capability. Understands positional authority but is capable of leading by influence. What You’ll Do Everest is growing and IT’s capital portfolio is also growing. You will partner closely with senior leaders in IT in evolving technology vision, multi-year strategy and direction for IT. Primary responsibilities are: Refreshing 5-year IT strategy and associated strategic objectives Shaping Annual Planning and Budgeting vis-a-vis 5-year plans for Investment Demand and Productions Operations Executing and monitoring roadmap progress against IT Strategy, organizational objectives and life-cycle of investments and initiatives. Establishing best practices to deliver on investment initiatives with predictability and consistency Leading and planning investment portfolio and prioritization while driving corrective actions to ensure key outcomes through multiple levels of governance (program, divisional and executive) Further developing a strategic portfolio management capability to govern the prioritization & planning, ensure execution readiness & predictability while increasing IT agility & velocity in alignment with the businesses Ensuring that technology is delivering against critical and large-scale multi-year initiatives, many of which have Board and Executive visibility Evolving from transactional project staffing and project execution to scaling a strategic portfolio management capability across IT portfolios and lines-of-business Driving the implementation of critical processes as part of enhancing “building” and “running” IT Resource/Capacity Management - Identify, prioritize, and coordinate resources within and across portfolios to maximize utilization Demand Management – Institutionalize demand capture, prioritization and approval through line-of-business Governance and readiness processes Dependency Management – Plan and coordinate cross-portfolio interdependencies and proactively mitigate risk Financial Management – Ensure that IT achieves financial objectives in partnership with Finance and CIO directs. This requires proactive, timely and accurate monthly forecasting, variance analysis and portfolio adjustments. IT Balanced Scorecard – Data to steer IT and gauge progress against objectives Establishing and applying consistent system development lifecycle methodologies and standards, including the move to new methodologies (e.g. agile) Working closely with the solution delivery leaders to drive and facilitate effective collaboration and communications between the IT organization and the business communities Ensuring timely planning and increasing execution predictability of the portfolio through: Execution monitoring through operating reviews, audits Portfolio analyses to track velocity against planned efforts Proactive mitigation of annual & monthly financial variances Planning and coordination of cross-portfolio interdependencies Risk monitoring and mitigation at the portfolio level Coaching and intervention to course-correct delivery Staying current with technology benchmarks against external operations and ensuring progress of our position relative to the industry Partnering with transformation office and senior IT leaders, reporting to the CIO, to drive continuous improvement across technology Partnering with Group PMO to provide oversight and transparency on the performance of the technology operation and project investment plans This unique role requires forethought, coordination across IT and business, rigorous insight into delivery progress and challenges. Ultimately, you will partner with business and IT stakeholders throughout Everest and across all levels of the organization. You will also create and evolve a Portfolio and Project Management chapter (Community-of-Practice) that establishes practice consistency, defines career paths and enables uplifting of traditional project management as well as contemporary agile delivery competencies. A critical success factor for this role will be the ability to institutionalize consistent and disciplined delivery blueprint, governance structure and communications. Under this function, IT will also execute operational excellence initiatives targeted to improve IT services and evolve to our target operating model. Key competencies are: Developing trust-based relationships Strategic and critical thinking to ultimately deliver business capabilities at-pace and against increasing scale Leading and managing through influence and direct authority Outcome-oriented approach to model behaviors of strong planning, execution and problem-solving across the company Balance of independence and collaboration to progress against objectives Business knowledge and customer-oriented judgment to drive alignment at governance forums Creating a culture of continuous improvement for value creation Finally, you will partner with Corporate Application & Services peers in enhancing the “running of IT business” across functions with global mandate such as Corporate Systems (Solution Delivery), Production Operations, Quality Assurance, Vendor Management & Sourcing, Financial Management, Talent/Workforce Management. You will assist in establishing and managing to IT performance benchmarks ultimately helping technology team innovate and differentiate Everest in the marketplace. What you’ll need 15 years in an Information Technology related field, ideally with experience in the financial services and/or insurance industry. Seven or more years of leadership responsibilities, including strategy, roadmap, planning and budgeting Building and shaping strategic portfolio management as a capability and function across the enterprise Experience in business/industry (beyond IT), managing cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders Broad knowledge of current and emerging technologies, technology directions, with the ability to differentiate between a relevant trend and hype Strong change agent with the ability to improve operational efficiency and service delivery across the IT organization Ability to envision and think strategically but execute with pragmatism Excellent executive-ready and organizational communications through direct and indirect development of presentations, business cases and narratives. Ability to explain technology solutions in business terms, establish rapport and persuade others. Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, planning and execution skills Strong organizational change management capability with practical ability to improve operational efficiency and service delivery across IT organization Focus on results and problem-solving skills Our Culture At Everest, our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors. Click here to learn more about our culture. Our Values are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions and behaviors. They are an expression of our culture and an integral part of how we work: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. Execution. Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Our Colleague Behaviors define how we operate and interact with each other no matter our location, level or function: Respect everyone. Pursue better. Lead by example. Own our outcomes. Win together. All colleagues are held accountable to upholding and supporting our values and behaviors across the company. This includes day to day interactions with fellow colleagues, and the global communities we serve. #LI-DP1 #LI-Hybrid Type: Regular Time Type: Full time Primary Location: Warren, NJ Additional Locations: Everest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, genetics, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. As part of this commitment, Everest will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Everest Benefits at everestbenefits@everestglobal.com. Everest U.S. Privacy Notice | Everest (everestglobal.com) EVEREST is a leading international reinsurance and insurance group with an extensive distribution network that spans five continents. With roots dating back to 1973, Everest has developed a global footprint and deep client relationships that are largely unmatched by its peers. The Company’s principal business strategies seek to leverage its strengths to optimize returns over the underwriting cycle, thereby creating value for its shareholders and business partners.