At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. For more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags, and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.
Your role in the team
The Product Manager Expert is responsible for defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of one or more products in Allstate's growing product portfolio. The Product Manager Expert manages strategic product vision, product discovery, roadmaps, and backlog to maximize the customer and enterprise value provided by their product. Successful Product Managers help to identify assumptions and validate those assumptions using product discovery techniques. The Product Manager Expert is responsible for working closely with key stakeholders and partners, ensuring the successful definition and execution of go-to-market and communications strategies for their products.
Key Responsibilities:
* Contribute towards creating the product strategy for one or more products in our growing digital product portfolio.
* Authors, tests, and accepts stories.
* Use customer feedback, detailed market analysis, and data gathering to provide recommendations on decisions about product strategy.
* Define and manage metrics to measure the success of your efforts and to inform the overall product strategy.
* Represent the voice of the customer; invest significant time with current and potential customers to understand their needs and habits.
* Engage in discovery/test & learn activities to quickly validate assumptions and product direction.
* Provide input on decomposing complex problems into smaller manageable tasks by creating and prioritizing a backlog for the Product Team.
* Assist with managing the product backlog, contribute towards creating an effective vision and provide timely stakeholder feedback on development iterations.
* Work with teams developing hypotheses and recommendations leading to optimization of the sales experience. Evaluate the outcomes of these recommendations.
* Analyze Allstate Financial Services sales data to understand the sales funnel and what is driving business results.
Essential Skills:
* All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
* A minimum of 5 years experience conducting and participating in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design.
* A minimum of 2 years experience working as DPM.
* A minimum of 2 years experience working with data analytics related initiatives.
* Experience in communicating complex and innovative concepts to product development teams with proven experience in data-driven decision making.
* Experience working in a technology development environment.
* Experience at breaking down work for iterative and incremental delivery.
* Effective at stakeholder management and transparent communication.
* Hands-on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing, and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud.
* Strong data and analytical skills.
* Confident and comfortable working with product engineering and technical teams.
Desirable Skills:
* Experience in application and platform modernization.
What we offer:
As Digital DNA’s Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package, and discounts on gym memberships, public transport, and parking.
Allstate invests heavily in your development; as an employee, you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.
We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organization.
We encourage a better work-life balance and you’ll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.
Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities:
Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age, or disability.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.
Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.
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