Vice President, Business Intelligence Chief Product Owner at Prudential Ins Co of America in Newark, New Jersey

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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 Global Technology & Data organization at Prudential is seeking a Vice President, Chief Product Owner & Business Intelligence Lead. Reporting into the Chief Data Officer, this highly visible role will join the Chief Data Office leadership team.

The successful candidate will lead a portfolio of work focused on the enterprise Business Intelligence platform and Business Intelligence services for Individual Life, Annuities and US Operations. The successful candidate must have deep Business Intelligence subject matter expertise, superior business acumen and strategic thinking skills, communication and influencing skills and demonstrated leadership for high performing, engaged teams.

Responsibilities:

• Set ambitious and clear Business Intelligence vision and communicate ‘the story’ effectively to key stakeholders and the rest of the team




• Own the end-to-end Business Intelligence strategy from inception and measure business impact once solution enters production




• Ensure the use of Business Intelligence applications enhances business decision making capabilities




• Lead a team of professionals to manage entire business intelligence development life cycle from concept through definition, development, and delivery, providing services for Individual Life, Annuities and US Operations




• Set ambitious and clear portfolio vision and communicate ‘the story’ effectively to key stakeholders and the rest of the team​




• Navigate successfully through ambiguity; understand business requirements and create BI solutions that have measurable impact




• Make recommendations for new metrics, techniques, and strategies to improve the BI function




• Drive benefit definition and tracking through to realization, developing action plans, following up and closing out all gaps and issues to meet deadlines




• Engage with Product Owners to be creative when it becomes necessary to tailor configurations to business needs




• Serve as a key member of the Chief Data Office team and grow and develop Chief Data Office talent

Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field




• Minimum of 10 years of experience of demonstrated quantitative and qualitative data and BI experience with significant business impact




• Proven experience with designing and delivering cross functional custom reporting solutions




• Knowledge of financial services or businesses with complex data, services, and distribution models preferred




• Experience leading a business intelligence function that has delivered strong value to the business; proven ability to improve BI capabilities and processes




• Understands how strategic themes influence direction of product solution




• Experience in Agile Development, with Product Owner or Chief Product Owner (or similar) experience preferred




• Understands Lean-Agile principles and practices




• Ability to document detailed product concepts in the context of user needs, business impacts, and technical requirements




• Excellent analytical skills with demonstrated experience turning data into actionable insights




• Challenger mindset and passion to challenge status quo to find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces change




• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust across the team




• Not afraid to ‘roll up the sleeves’ and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn – pushes the team to do the same




• Experimental mindset to drive innovation

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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