Senior Strategy Manager

Zurich NA • Chicago, IL, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 1m ago

Zurich NA Senior Strategy Manager - Chicago, Illinois

Zurich North America is currently looking for a Senior Strategy Manager for our Strategy team in Chicago/Schaumburg. In this role, you will play a critical role in driving the strategy process for ZNA, operationalizing our strategic priorities, leading innovation initiatives and enhancing our business development opportunities. You will collaborate with our Business leaders on a wide variety of projects.

This is a critical role and requires strong stakeholder and influence management, excellent communication and team management/interpersonal skills, and experience navigating through a complex organization. The successful candidate must be able to build strong working relationships with both Internal and External Stakeholders and take a holistic approach to identify and address short and long-term business opportunities, develop, and execute on those solutions.

Key accountabilities include:

Being a thought partner with the business and working with the executive leaders across business units to identify strategic priorities.
Leading teams of problem solvers, simplifying and solving the most complex challenges facing Zurich North America and taking solutions from idea inception to implementation.
Challenging traditional ways of thinking, inviting leaders and teams to look at problems from a variety of perspectives and develop innovative, and forward-thinking solutions.
Managing and developing cross-functional teams.
Facilitating the preparation of materials for key external presentations and internal business discussions.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and 10 or more years of experience in Strategy / Management consulting or similar roles.
5 or more years of Project Manager level experience.
Strong understanding of the Commercial Insurance Industry.
Experience in working closely with C-suite on strategically relevant topics.
Experience in managing and developing teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong Insurance Industry experience, forward thinking with the ability to identify trends within the industry.
Ability to work in an ambiguous, dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Strong analytical thinking, problem solving and advanced spreadsheet/database skills.
Excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills with the ability to adjust messages to varying levels of audience.

As a condition of employment at Zurich, employees must adhere to any COVID-related health and safety protocols in place at that time.

Zurich maintains a comprehensive employee benefits package for employees as well as eligible dependents and competitive compensation. Please click here to learn more.

Location(s): AM - Schaumburg, AM - Chicago

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