Primary DetailsTime Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Group Technology ConsultantAt QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future. We’re an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries. Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks, build strength, and embrace change to their advantage.
Summary Direct the strategic planning and implementation of enterprise-wide information technology systems to ensure business processes lead to a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The role is the primary interface for Enterprise-wide solutions and the business/divisions, ensuring alignment between business strategy and the Enterprise IT roadmap. The role will maintain an awareness of the global needs of QBE and employ and promote the benefits that a common approach to information technology deployment will bring to the business. They will coordinate the promotion, acquisition, development, and implementation of information systems and services to support those responsible for the managing the business function. The role must also drive and enable the achievement of business goals, advance transformative change and contribute towards the overall effectiveness of the Group.
We will be very welcoming to applicants from a Management Consulting background - Big 4 etc...
Primary Responsibilities - Establish and support the functional teams in the generation and execution of the IT Strategy Roadmap, ensuring global alignment and in accordance with industry best practice.
- Develop Functional Platform services capability, strategic plan and priorities by partnering with group, divisional & IT Heads to define business needs, assessing industry trends to identify opportunities to enhance existing and planned solutions and developing service delivery standards to produce desired results and increase efficiency, responsiveness and effectiveness.
- Strong governance approach and bringing enterprise thinking together and facilitating architecture forums.
- Forge strong professional and personal relationships by partnering with executive leaders, market leaders and information technology departments and sharing information to champion and influence.
- Strong presentation and storytelling skills to all levels of the organization about technology.
- Drive the adoption of continuous improvement initiatives on Enterprise-wide tooling.
- Adhere to technology security and privacy strategy by partnering with the appropriate teams.
- Continuously seek out opportunities to consolidate and align hardware, software, technology, tools, processes and vendors used to provide services across the group.
- Build positive, open and constructive relationships with key stakeholders to ensure service delivery meets current and future business needs.
- Develop clear engagement and charging models to ensure alignment and transparency to supported business partners.
- Plan, allocate and manage financial budget by anticipating expenditures, accurately forecasting resource needs/costs and properly accounting for expenses to meet requirements and achieve fiscal responsibility.
Your experience so far... - Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- 10+ years relevant experience (ideally from a Big 4 management consulting firm) but not essential.
- Strong presentation and storytelling skills to all levels of the organization about technology.
- Excellent customer relationship management skills, capable of establishing and maintaining relationships across the business and influencing design and policy where required.
- Establish long-range objectives and specify the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Excellent customer relationship management skills, capable of establishing and maintaining relationships across the business and influencing design and policy where required.
- Confident and credible, capable of offering insightful commentary and advice both to the business and peers and team members.
We are here to support you We are here to support you We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As an QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:
- ‘Hybrid Working’ - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our ‘At My Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners
- BCS Organisational Membership
Some of the awards QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include:
- The British Computer Society 2021 Winners - Inspirational Individual of the Year; IT Service & Support Professional of the year
- British Claims Awards 2022 Winner - InsurTech Award
- Insurance Times Claims Excellence Awards 2022 Winner - Claims Product Solution of the Year
- Working Families Best Practice Awards 2021 Finalist for: Best COVID-19 Response
- Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2022 Shortlisted for: Best Customer Care, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year 2022, Specialist Insurer of the Year (for Construction), General Insurer of the Year
We are proud to have partnerships with organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families, and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles and Race at Work charter helps keep us accountable and transparent.
Why QBE?Working for us. Working for you. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. Offering a great range of benefits which enable you to bring your best self to work, including competitive salaries and bonus structures, health and wellbeing programs, hybrid working for the flexibility of working from home and the office. In addition to this, we also offer flexible parental leave for both parents and have several employee network groups that support and empower our diverse workforce.
At QBE, we view our people as our most precious asset. We understand the importance of fostering a work environment that is responsive to the changing needs of today's workforce. QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation.
About QBE QBE helps businesses build resilience through risk management and insurance.
QBE European Operations is part of QBE Insurance Group, one of the world’s leading international insurers and reinsurers and Standard & Poor’s A+ rated. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, QBE’s gross written premium for the year ended 31 December 2021 was US$18.5 billion.
As a business insurance specialist, QBE European Operations offers a range of insurance products from the standard suite of property, casualty and motor to the specialist financial lines, marine and energy. All are tailored to the individual needs of our small, medium and large customer base.
To find out more about why you should work for QBE, visit our careers website .
What next?If you have a passion to contribute to QBE’s vision of enabling a more resilient future for our customers and the community, we encourage you to
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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.
