Vice President, Enterprise Agile Delivery at Prudential Ins Co of America in Newark, New Jersey

Job Description:

Prudential’s Global Technology team is the spark that ignites the power of Prudential for our customers and employees worldwide. Our organization plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering customer-driven solutions across every area of the company. The Global Technology team is made up of diverse, agile-thinking, and highly-skilled professionals; we use our combined capabilities to enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency. 

The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA. When you join the Global Technology organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock a challenging and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

The Vice President, Enterprise Agile Delivery is responsible for creating a seamless, integrated, transformation experience for people moving into a transformation team. As a key strategic leader, this role will drive the enterprise agile transformation and adoption of the New Way of Working (NWoW) methodology. As a key leader in the Agile Transition Office, reporting into the Agile Transformation leader, this role will be accountable for agile delivery through the enterprise coaching team and ensure a seamless, integrated and transformative experience for work and teams transitioning, operating and optimizing in the NWoW.

• Build and deploy an agile coach function accountable for enterprise agile coaching for all technology enabled transformation initiatives in the US businesses and Corporate Functions and IT delivery in the Chief Data Office and Chief Technology Office. Building and deploying an Agile coaching function that delivers impact by driving consistency and commonality and helping the organization reap the benefits of Agile at scale; leading and coaching the Agile Coach team to raise their expertise




• Build enterprise competency in agile delivery, keeping organization current on new techniques, methods and tools. Measure effectiveness of agile transformation, garner insights and identify/implement opportunities for continuous improvement.




• Ensure agile coach team delivers impact by driving consistency and commonality, helping the organization to realize the benefits of agile at scale.




• Drive innovation by developing/acquiring new techniques/tasks/tools and applying those in projects. Bring deep subject matter expertise in agile and business acumen to build deep understanding of line of business and corporate function taxonomies and value chains.




• Partnering with the Infrastructure & Tools Leader to understand the impacts of CI/CD on Agile methodologies

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required




• Minimum of 10 years in project/program management roles (using agile and traditional methods)




• At least 5 years delivering Agile projects utilizing a variety of methods including Scrum and SAFE, using collocated and distributed delivery model




• Exceptional people leader skills to enable the up skilling of agile coaches




• Proven track record of building and deploying an Agile function in a highly matrixed environment




• Strong, influencing, relationship building and communication skills, including written communications




• Demonstrated experience managing multiple simultaneous projects involving cross-functional product teams within budgetary and schedule constraints.




• Driving balance between the Project Management Office (PMO) and Program processes / standards and project needs / objectives

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services.

We recognize that our strength and success are directly linked to the quality and skills of our diverse associates. We are proud to be a place where talented people who want to make a difference can grow as professionals, leaders, and as individuals. Visit www.prudential.com to learn more about our values, our history and our brand.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status , medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law. 

The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ and its affiliates.

Note that this posting is intended for individual applicants. Search firms or agencies should email Staffing at staffingagencies@prudential.com for more information about doing business with Prudential.

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