Agile Transformation Lead

Primary DetailsTime Type: Full timeWorker Type: Employee

The Opportunity

The purpose of this role is to be a trusted advisor to plan and implement the strategic transformation agenda through thought leadership and external perspectives in order to solve business problems. It also involves leveraging and scaling out the local transformation governance framework to support the broader transformation agenda.

• Location: Madison, WI
• Work Arrangement: hybrid working expectations
• The starting salary for this role is between $130,500.00 and $195,500.00
  
  

Your new role

Strategic Alignment & Architecture Integration

• Work seamlessly with Strategy and Architecture teams to ensure new pipeline initiatives are aligned with departmental and organizational strategic direction.
• Translate strategic objectives into coherent, prioritized roadmaps that balance regulatory, risk, and value‑driven change across EDSR.
  
  

Roadmap & Portfolio Ownership

• Own and maintain EDSR roadmaps, ensuring alignment with approved strategies, interdependencies, funding horizons, and the broader enterprise change portfolio.
• Ensure roadmaps remain current and actionable as priorities, capacity, and risk profiles evolve.
  
  

Business Case & Readiness Assurance

• Drive the creation and refinement of business cases by ensuring that:
• The problem statement, scope, risks, dependencies, and intended outcomes are clearly defined
• Business readiness, operational impact, and change/adoption considerations are explicitly assessed at a proportionate level
• Provide assurance that business cases are decision‑ready and support sound, evidence‑based investment decisions.
• Partner with business and change management leaders to ensure initiatives are supported by appropriate adoption, communication, and readiness plans, enabling sustainable change and value realization.
  

Portfolio Prioritization

• Own backlog governance and prioritization, providing end‑to‑end assurance of the EDSR change portfolio, together with the PMO from intake through delivery and closure.
• Establish and operate a portfolio planning cycle to evaluate new demand post‑intake and confirm what initiatives should enter the portfolio based on strategic alignment and value
  
  

Agile & Incremental Delivery Enablement

• Promote and enable the effective use of agile and iterative delivery approaches across initiatives.
• Ensure initiatives are appropriately scoped to deliver incremental value, minimum viable outcomes, and early benefits realization.
• Support the definition, implementation, and oversight of the benefits realization framework to track intended and realized value across the EDSR change portfolio, ensuring initiatives deliver measurable strategic and business outcomes.
  
  

Executive Stakeholder Management & Decision Support

• Establish early executive‑level accountability for initiatives, including clear ownership, sponsorship, and decision rights.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders by:
• Facilitating trade‑off discussions and scenario analysis
• Providing portfolio‑level insights, options, and strategic recommendations
  

Enterprise Governance & Forums

• Coordinate the submission of business cases, roadmaps, and supporting materials to the Enterprise Technology Office and other relevant governance forums.
• Ensure governance discussions are outcome‑focused, decision‑led, and aligned to strategic priorities.
  
  

Work Experience:

• Experience of working collaboratively with business and change professionals to identify solutions to business problems
• Experience of managing relationships with internal business customers at a senior executive level
• Strategic planning experience (knowledge of approaches, techniques, tools and outputs)
• Experience of managing multi-discipline projects
• Broad financial services experience with understanding of insurance processes and technology
  
  

Compensation Package: The salary range for this role is provided above. This is the national range for location(s) listed. The salary offer will be decided based on the role's complexity, its location, and the candidate’s professional background, including their education and experience. Beyond the base salary, regular full-time and part-time employees will also be eligible for QBE’s annual discretionary bonus plan based on business and individual performance. We encourage all candidates to apply, even if their salary expectations fall outside of this range, as we are committed to finding the right fit for our team.

QBE Benefits: We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to:

• Hybrid Working – a mix of working from home and in the office
• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis
• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%
• Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• Tuition Reimbursement for professional certifications, and continuing education
• Employee Network and Community – QBE actively supports six Employee Networks, and many ways to give back to your community
  
  

To learn more, click here: Benefits | QBE US .

Why QBE? What if you could have a positive impact – at work and in the world?

At QBE, we’re enabling a more resilient future – for our customers, communities, environment, and for our people. We’re building momentum to achieve something significant and know our people are at the center of our success.

Our industry offers interesting and varied careers where you can help people to protect what matters most. As part of the QBE team, you’ll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind. And our international scale means we’re big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact.

Join us now, so you can be part of our success – and we can be part of yours!

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; gender; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; protected veteran status; or disability or any other legally protected status.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Supplementary information

Skills:

Business Transformation, Client Counseling, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Financial Products, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Performance Management (PM), Project Delivery, Risk Management, Sound Judgment, Stakeholder Management, Succession Planning, Waterfall Model

How to Apply:

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.