Product Owner - UW Experience and Strategic Product Solutions

Company: CGIC

Department: P&C Insurance Solutions

Employment Type: Temporary Full-Time (18 months)

Work Model: Hybrid

Language: English is required, French is an asset.

Additional Information: This/these role(s) is/are currently vacant

The Opportunity

We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That’s why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients, and our communities.

Our Underwriting Experience and Strategic Product Solutions team provides financial security to Canadians by offering superior products and services. Our professional, high performing team strives to deliver effective services and evolves product offerings, to address emerging insurance trends and meet the needs of our clients.

As the Product Owner, you will play a key role in conveying the vision of the business stakeholders, to an Agile team, accountable for delivering on approved initiatives. The Product Owner takes direction from the business stakeholders and leads the Agile Teams in delivering on the initiatives in the backlog that align to strategy and meet the current and future goals and needs.

How You Will Create Impact

• Participating in the development of roadmaps and delivering solutions that will maximize value.
• Applying incremental delivery principles to drive the delivery of business value, communicating progress, eliciting feedback, and enabling stakeholder reviews to validate processes.
• Maintaining a good understanding of business partners, their expectations, needs and points of pain to effectively communicate this knowledge to the development team to focus on deliverables and priorities.
• Utilizing stakeholder relationships and maintaining a good understanding of clients, users and product to prioritize needs against development.
• Serving as the primary source of information for the team, offering clear definitions of the targeted capability, the intended value to the customer and all requirements.
  
  
  

How You Will Succeed

• You have an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies and ability to influence change, with a primary focus on client needs.  
• You use critical thinking skills to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments, draw conclusions, and proactively propose solutions.
• You have strong communication skills to clearly convey messages and explore diverse points of view. 
• You build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues.
  
  
  

To Join Our Team

• You have five to seven years of experience in Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance Services.
• You have completed a post-secondary degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Technology (IT), Computer Science or a relate discipline.
• You have a strong understanding and demonstrate experience working in an agile environment.
• You have demonstrated interpersonal skills and the ability to establish effective working relationships with team members as well as both internal and external stakeholders at various levels.
• Having strong working knowledge of software development, JIRA and Confluence are an asset.
• Having or working towards the Disciplined Agile, Certified Scrum Master, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or other professional designation is an asset.
• This position primarily works with majority non-francophone groups, and teams located outside of Québec, and requires proficiency in English. The essential non-French duties are not assignable to adjacent or other team members.
  
  
  

What To You Need To Know

• You will be subject to a background check as a condition of employment, in the event you are the successful candidate.
  
  
  

What's in it for you?

• The opportunity to take on challenging work and contribute your expertise, creativity, and passion in meaningful ways.
• A comprehensive total rewards package, including competitive salary, bonus, paid time off, pension and benefits.
• A holistic approach to your well-being, with physical and mental health programs and flexible work options.
• The opportunity to work on an inclusive team that inspires each other to explore and achieve what's possible.
• A company that is committed to support the social, environmental and financial well-being of the lives, families and communities we impact.