What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, IT Policy Administration position at Kuvare?
About Kuvare
Kuvare is on a mission to serve hardworking consumers overwhelmed by the complexities of retirement and is built from the ground up to do so. Our unified financial hub protects the retirement of everyday Americans and the distributors, carriers and investors that serve them. We create life insurance and annuity products that protect consumers’ retirements, and are simplified for distributor partners and financial professionals to sell and service.
Kuvare family of companies:
Retail Annuity and Life Insurance Solutions:
- United Life Insurance Company
- Guaranty Income Life Insurance Company
- Lincoln Benefit Life
Institutional Insurance:
- Kuvare Life Re
Bespoke Insurance Solutions:
- Ignite Partners
About the role
- The Manager of IT, Policy Administrations’ role is to plan, coordinate, and supervise all staff management activities related to the design, development, implementation, and / or support of organizational staff. This includes on-boarding, off-boarding, and skills development of staff. It is a working technical/professional role, meaning that it involves research, design, and / or document approaches and frameworks for advancing the staff skillsets and capabilities.
What you'll do
Leadership
- Plan, lead, and develop the staff skillsets / talent / capabilities.
- Participate in daily, weekly, monthly, and annual planning process as appropriate to determine staff needs.
- Provide creative and energetic leadership for staff through effective communications, coaching, training, and development.
- Drive accountability of deliverables from staff and vendors.
- Communicate areas of accountability and performance expected.
- Determine standards of performance as a basis to review progress.
- Foster a high-performance culture conductive to maximizing staff morale and productivity.
- Develop staff for future advancement.
Strategy & Planning
- Lead members in conceptualizing and developing their skill sets and capabilities for supporting the organizational needs.
- Work with members to prepare and document needs.
Acquisition & Deployment
- Conduct research on emerging staff development approaches and frameworks.
- Recommend, schedule, and perform overall staff skillsets / talent / capabilities improvements.
Operational Management
- Administer critical analysis of staff skill sets and capabilities to ensure alignment with organizational strategy and goals.
- Generate statistics, and prepare and write reports for management and/or members on the status of the overall talent management process.
- Assist in the development and maintenance of staff development approaches and guidelines.
- Collaborate across the organization to align and leverage overall staff development guidelines and principles.
Qualifications
- 5 years managing a team.
- Experience with multiple programming language usage.
- Experience with multiple database usage.
- Experience with Waterfall and Agile development methodology and concepts.
- Experience with change management and change control processes.
- Technical knowledge of Server, Desktop, Laptop, and platform operating systems.
- Technical knowledge of current systems software, protocols, and standards.
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